I stumbled upon this presentation while trying to better understand the Cassandra data model and composite columns, and it really helped me. Here are the slide

I stumbled upon this presentation while trying to better understand the Cassandra data model and composite columns, and it really helped me. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/edanuff/indexing-in-cassandra http://www.slideshare.net/edanuff/indexing-in-cassandra It's also mentioned in this blog post: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/introduction-to-composite-columns-part-1 http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/introduction-to-composite-c...