On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you shed some more light (or point towards some other resource) that > why you think built-in Secondary Indexes should not be used easily or > without much consideration? Thanks. > 1) Secondary indexes are more or less modeled like a manual pseudo Secondary Index CF would be. 2) Except they are more opaque than doing it yourself. For example you cannot see information on them in nodetool cfstats. 3) And there have been a steady trickle of bugs which relate to their implementation, in many cases resulting in them not returning the data they should. [1] 4) These bugs would not apply to a manual pseudo Secondary Index CF. 5) And the only benefits you get are the marginal convenience of querying the secondary index instead of a second CF, and atomic synchronized update. 6) Which most people do not actually need. tl;dr : "unless you need the atomic update property, just use a manual pseudo secondary index CF" =Rob [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4785 , https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5540 , https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2897 , etc.
