RE: Secondary indexes and cardinality

2012-02-13 Thread Tiwari, Dushyant
Perfect, Aaron, Thanks a lot From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:54 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Secondary indexes and cardinality Heard that indexing a field with high cardinality is not good. http://www.datastax.com/docs

Re: Secondary indexes and cardinality

2012-02-13 Thread aaron morton
> Heard that indexing a field with high cardinality is not good. http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/data_model/secondary_indexes > Will there be any performance improvement? Is this the way secondary indexes > are maintained? Updating secondary indexes requires a read and a write. > Also this ma