Ok, Thank you all. More reading to do :) On Oct 6, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Brayton Thompson <thomp...@grnoc.iu.edu> > wrote: >> Ok, let me tweak the scenario a tiny bit. What if I wanted something >> extremely arbitrary, for instance... simple comparisons like a WHERE clause >> in SQL.... >> get Users.someuser['uuid'] where Users.someuser['age'] > 33 >> >> From what i've read this functionality defeats the point of Cassandra >> because instead of indexing directly to a value C* would have to got to a >> value and run a check for every entry. Am I correct here? > > No, this is the whole point of secondary indexes. But, > queries > won't be supported until probably 0.7.1. > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com