Re: How do secondary indices work

2011-02-08 Thread Aaron Morton
Moving to the user group.On 08 Feb, 2011,at 11:39 PM, alta...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:Hello, I'd like some information about how secondary indices work under the hood. 1) Is data stored in some external data structure, or is it stored in an actual Cassandra table, as columns within column families?

How do secondary indices work

2011-02-08 Thread altanis
Hello, I'd like some information about how secondary indices work under the hood. 1) Is data stored in some external data structure, or is it stored in an actual Cassandra table, as columns within column families? 2) Is data stored sorted or not? How is it partitioned? 3) How can I access index d