Secondary Index Case Sensitive

Feature Requests Requests
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1

I’m recently migrating our user data from MySQL to Aerospike, the user data contains username, email and other fields for login.

Now I get caught up in an index issue, I have to login with username in exactly case.

For example, I registered with username “Fishdrowned”, then I fail to login with “fishdrowned”

This make it unfriendly to the end user.

I’ve googled it and didn’t find any words about if Aerospike supports case-insensitive index or not.

Is it (case-insensitive index) supported in Aerospike, or is there any plan to support it in the future?

2

Aerospike secondary index does not support case processing. Case insensitivity can be taken care of by the application on insert and look up.

3

Yeah sure, application can do this, but it’s stupid.

Imagine that you need to add a new index to a set which already have millions or even billions records.