Range Queries in Cassandra (CQL 3.0)

Question

One main part of Cassandra that I don\'t fully understand is its range queries. I know that Cassandra emphasizes distributed environment and focuses on performance, but probabl

Answer 1

You can look for clustering keys. A primary key can be formed by a partitioning key and then by clustering keys.

for example definition like this one

CREATE TABLE example (
  int_key int,
  int_non_key int,
  str_2nd_idx ascii,
  PRIMARY KEY((int_key), str_2nd_idx)
);

will allow to you make queries like these without using token

select * from example where str_2nd_idx < 'hello' allow filtering;

Before creating a TABLE in cassandra you should start from thinking about queries and what you want to ask from the data model in cassandra.