Hi, According to the documentation on Indexes ( http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/ddl/indexes ), in order to use WHERE on a column which is not part of my key, I must define a secondary index on it. However, I can only use equality comparison on it but I wish to use other comparisons methods like greater than.
Let's say I have a room with people and every timestamp, I measure the temperature of the room and number of people. I use the timestamp as my key and I want to select all timestamps where temperature was over 50 degrees but I can't seem to be able to do it with a regular query even if I define that column as a secondary index. SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE temp > 50.4571; My lame workaround is to define a secondary index on NumOfPeopleInRoom and than for a specific value SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE NumOfPeopleInRoom = 7 AND temp > 50.4571; I'm pretty sure this is not the proper way for me to do this. How should I attack this? It feels like I'm missing a very basic concept. I'd appreciate it if your answers include also the option of not changing my schema. Thanks!!!