Cassandra allows multiple clustering columns, it's not simple concatenation under the hood. There are no hidden exponential backoffs in Cassandra in any of the

Cassandra allows multiple clustering columns, it's not simple concatenation under the hood. There are no hidden exponential backoffs in Cassandra in any of the hot query paths, period. Suggesting that using nosql as a DB is broken is so ludicrous I'm not even going to try to refute it - you simply don't know what you're talking about.