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Match your query's ORDER BY to the clustering order

Cassandra stores columns on disk in the clustering order of your table. Therefore, to get the performance, your queries with ORDER BY should match the table's clustering order.

For example, if you often query the newest data in the table, then you should set your clustering order to be (insertion_time DESC):

CREATE TABLE timeseries ( event_type text, insertion_time timestamp, event blob, PRIMARY KEY (event_type, insertion_time) ) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (insertion_time DESC);

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Reversing clustering order at query time scans the entire partition

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