Suppose we'd like to retrieve a handful of status updates from the database and display information about them, including who starred them. Naively, we might expect to be able to perform a query of this form:
SELECT * FROM "user_status_updates" WHERE "username" = 'alice' AND "id" IN ( 3f9b5f00-e8f7-11e3-9211-5f98e903bf02, 3f9b5f00-e8f7-11e3-9211-5f98e903bf02 );
However, if we perform this query, we'll see an error:
One limitation of Cassandra collections is that you cannot read collections when selecting multiple rows using a WHERE...IN clause. Once you have collection columns in your table, ...
