On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Ian Rose <ianr...@fullstory.com> wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if range queries on secondary indexes aren't > supported at all (although if that is the case, I would certainly prefer an > error rather than a timeout!). I've been scouring the web trying to find a > definitive answer on this but all I have come up with is this (old, > non-authoritative) blog post which states "Cassandra’s native index is > like a hashed index, which means you can only do equality query and not > range query." > Somewhere in google I'm pretty sure you can find me on this list explaining the basic case for why I do not recommend using Secondary Indexes. An endless trickle of edge cases such as this one where trivial operations do not work is one of the reasons given. The "convenience" they provide can really only be convenience if they actually, you know, work. =Rob
