Clustering columns and range queries Clustering columns are a simple of telling Cassandra or DSE how to keep things ordered in a specific way. What’s the main advantage? …

At Outworkers, Cassandra and Datastax Enterprise are core technologies in our area of competence, and moreover some of our favourite technologies in existence. There aren’t many things that can easily give you 100k writes per second, but if that’s what you are looking for you are in the right place. …

In this article we are going to discuss the types of keys and indexes in Cassandra and how to apply them to real world modelling scenarios. This is a continuation of the previous article in this series, our introduction to Cassandra. …