October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
As with many distributed databases, the flexibility to work with dynamic query patterns is a key price to pay for not having all of your data in one place. While Apache Cassandra does have the ability to apply secondary indexing, they exist for convenience and not for performance. Despite new features added with the goal of removing some of the pain of distributed indexing (such as materialized views and SASI indexes), tables in Cassandra must still be built to suit a specific query pattern.