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Wow, I thought this was a joke press release making fun of "web scale" fad craziness. They seriously gave a 1.0 release number to a "database" that you couldn'

• apendleton 13y ago
  No, you've always been able to execute queries. They just weren't indexed before.
  • jdoliner 13y ago
    Data has always been indexed it just was only indexed by a single primary key. Before this release the indexing scheme wasn't more sophisticated than a key value store now it is. I feel like there are several other products on the market that just do key value indexing.
  • papsosouid 13y ago
    I didn't say "execute queries", I said search. Unless you have a tiny amount of data, no indexes means searching is not feasible.
    • JulianMorrison 13y ago
      The way you search on a key-value store with no secondary indexes is create the secondary indexes manually as separate tables.
      • papsosouid 13y ago
        Or just use a database instead of creating problems for no reason.