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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6477:
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We have separate tickets for functional, partial, and compound indexes. Let's
not boil the ocean all at once.
> Global indexes
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6477
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6477
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API, Core
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Local indexes are suitable for low-cardinality data, where spreading the
> index across the cluster is a Good Thing. However, for high-cardinality
> data, local indexes require querying most nodes in the cluster even if only a
> handful of rows is returned.
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