Cassandra 2 - list existing indexes with CQL 3

Question

Is there a CQL query to list all existing indexes for particular key space, or column family?

Answer 1

Assuming you have a table named moviesongs, firing a statement as DESCRIBE moviesongs; you will get the following output:

cqlsh:practice> describe moviesongs ;

CREATE TABLE practice.moviesongs (
    moviename text,
    year int,
    songname text,
    songnum int,
    PRIMARY KEY (moviename, year)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (year DESC)
    AND bloom_filter_fp_chance = 0.01
    AND caching = {'keys': 'ALL', 'rows_per_partition': 'NONE'}
    AND comment = ''
    AND compaction = {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy', 'max_threshold': '32', 'min_threshold': '4'}
    AND compression = {'chunk_length_in_kb': '64', 'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.LZ4Compressor'}
    AND crc_check_chance = 1.0
    AND dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.1
    AND default_time_to_live = 0
    AND gc_grace_seconds = 864000
    AND max_index_interval = 2048
    AND memtable_flush_period_in_ms = 0
    AND min_index_interval = 128
    AND read_repair_chance = 0.0
    AND speculative_retry = '99PERCENTILE';
CREATE INDEX index1 ON practice.moviesongs (year);

Look at the last line, it describes the index on the moviesongs table.