It's basically the same design (both are good at indexing low-cardinality data, and poor for high-), except that Cassandra allows non-index predicates to also b

It's basically the same design (both are good at indexing low-cardinality data, and poor for high-), except that Cassandra allows non-index predicates to also be filtered server-side during an index scan: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-seco...