Sorry for askign that but Why is it necessary to always have at least one EQ comparison
[default@Keyspace1] get test where birth_year>1985; No indexed columns present in index clause with operator EQ It oblige to have one dummy indexed column, to do this query [default@Keyspace1] get test where tag=sea and birth_year>1985; ------------------- RowKey: sam => (column=birth_year, value=1988, timestamp=1336742346059000)