Moving to user. Aaron On 20 Apr 2011, at 10:45, Jason Kolb wrote:
> I apologize if this has been answered before, I've tried to do some pretty > exhaustive searching of the archives and haven't been able to see if this > question has been answered before. > > I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a practical upper limit on the > number of secondary indexes used, if they're sparsely populated (say, 10,000 > secondary indexes only 2 of which are populated per row). My understanding > is that Cassandra creates another column family for each secondary index in > the background, so the real limitation would appear to be the number of > column families. > > Is this correct? And if so (or even if not), does anyone know the answer to > the question about the upper limit on the number of secondary indexes? > > Thanks! > Jason
