I don't see why having per DC indexes would be an issue, from a technical standpoint. I suggest putting in a JIRA for it, it's a good idea (if it doesn't exist already). Post back to the ML with the issue #.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:26 PM Bhuvan Rawal <bhu1ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can it be possible with change log feature implemented in CASSANDRA-8844 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8844>? i.e. to have two > clusters (With different schema definitions for secondary indices) and > segregating analytics workload on the other cluster with CDC log shipper > enabled on parent DC which is taking care of transactional workload? > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Dorian Hoxha <dorian.ho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Only way I know is in elassandra <https://github.com/vroyer/elassandra>. >> You spin nodes in dc1 as elassandra (having data + indexes) and in dc2 as >> cassandra (having only data). >> >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Bhuvan Rawal <bhu1ra...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to have secondary indices (SASI or native ones) defined >>> on a table restricted to a particular DC? For instance it is very much >>> possible in mysql to have a parent server on which writes are being done >>> without any indices (other than the required ones), and to have indices on >>> replica db's, this helps the parent database to be lightweight and free >>> from building secondary index on every write. >>> >>> For analytics & auditing purposes it is essential to serve different >>> access patterns than that modeled from a partition key fetch perspective, >>> although a limited reads are needed by users but if enabled cluster wide it >>> will require index write for every row written on that table on every >>> single node on every DC even the one which may be serving read operations. >>> >>> What could be the potential means to solve this problem inside of >>> cassandra (Not having to ship off the data into elasticsearch etc). >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Bhuvan >>> >> >> >