Yes, either denormalizing or sorting in your client.
Cheers, Jens — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, tommaso barbugli <tbarbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > We need to retrieve the data stored in cassandra on something different > than its "natural" order; we are looking for possible ways to sort results > from a column family data based on columns that are not part of the primary > key; is denormalizing the data on another column family the only option to > do this? > Thanks, > Tommaso