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Secondary Indexes Overview

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Secondary indexes are created for one main purpose: to allow querying by a column that is not a key. CQL tables have strict schemas that define which columns form a primary key, and fundamentally we should use these keys to extract data from the database. But, in practice, we may want to occasionally query by a different, regular column, or several of them. How to achieve that? One of the ways is to create an index on that column.
These indexes are implemented on top of materialized views. It implies that there’s a storage overhead for creating an index – it will use another table to store the data it needs. Indexes can be global or local, and let’s find out what that means.

 

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