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sguzzo asked Erick Ramirez answered

Why are rows out-of-order in the result set?

I don't understand why my rows are not ordered as I specified during table creation with the clustering columns. I have a table defined as

CREATE TABLE streaming_test.test_payload_by_sensor (
    sensor_id uuid,
    date date,
    timestamp timestamp,
    altitude decimal,
    ...
    ...
    ...
    PRIMARY KEY ((sensor_id, date), timestamp)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (timestamp DESC)

However, I see the values:

sensor_id date timestamp
sensor001 2021-10-03 2021-10-03 11:55:00.000000+0000
sensor001 2021-10-12 2021-10-12 10:45:00.000000+0000
sensor001 2021-10-12 2021-10-12 10:35:00.000000+0000
sensor001 2021-10-12 2021-10-12 10:30:00.000000+0000

Shouldn't the first value be last?

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The data posted comes from a query with `ALLOW FILTERING`, so withouth a partition specified. This is the reason of the "error"!

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Erick Ramirez answered

As you already worked out, the issue lies in the query filtered on the clustering column without the partition key.

Queries with ALLOW FILTERING uses a scatter-gather approach where all the partitions are checked the results are displayed in the order that replicas returned them. Cheers!

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