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Filtering Overview

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Filtering: What is it and why is it useful? Sometimes we want to be able to query by different columns, but we’re not interested in creating secondary indexes. Filtering is one more way of allowing such queries. The mechanism is really simple – the coordinator will fetch *all* of the results specified by the key restrictions, and then filter out rows that do not match the rest of the restrictions. But, there’s a caveat. Filtering can be very performance-heavy, it can even result in fetching all rows from the table and then filter out just a few rows. Because of that, queries that involve filtering must be explicitly allowed to do so, by appending ALLOW FILTERING keyword to each such query.
Filtering may put a strain on the performance of the whole cluster by reading the whole table.
The session also covers combining filtering with indexes and includes examples.

 

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