Info on secondary indexes http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes
Some answers to your other questions are also in there as well as a discussion about the limitations. Hope that helps. Aaron On 7/03/2011, at 3:54 PM, Mark wrote: > I haven't looked at Cassandra since 0.6.6 and now I notice in 0.7+ there is > support for secondary indexes. I haven't found much material on how these are > used and when one should use one. Can someone point me in the right direction. > > Also can these be created (and deleted) as needed without affecting the > underlying CF? If so, I'm guessing there is no need to create another CF just > for indexing. What are the disadvantages of this method? > > Thanks all.
