Check SAI existence
Verify that a SAI index exists using the DESCRIBE INDEX command:
DESCRIBE INDEX cycling.rank_idx;
Result
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX rank_idx ON cycling.rank_by_year_and_name (rank) USING 'StorageAttachedIndex';
To verify the index and table schema in a single command, use the DESCRIBE TABLE command:
DESCRIBE TABLE cycling.rank_by_year_and_name;
Result
CREATE TABLE cycling.rank_by_year_and_name (
race_year int,
race_name text,
rank int,
cyclist_name text,
PRIMARY KEY ((race_year, race_name), rank)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (rank ASC)
AND additional_write_policy = '99p'
AND allow_auto_snapshot = true
AND bloom_filter_fp_chance = 0.01
AND caching = {'keys': 'ALL', 'rows_per_partition': 'NONE'}
AND cdc = false
AND comment = ''
AND compaction = {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.UnifiedCompactionStrategy', 'max_sstables_to_compact': '64', 'min_sstable_size': '100MiB', 'scaling_parameters': 'T4', 'sstable_growth': '0.3333333333333333', 'target_sstable_size': '1GiB'}
AND compression = {'chunk_length_in_kb': '16', 'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.LZ4Compressor'}
AND memtable = 'default'
AND crc_check_chance = 1.0
AND default_time_to_live = 0
AND extensions = {}
AND gc_grace_seconds = 864000
AND incremental_backups = true
AND max_index_interval = 2048
AND memtable_flush_period_in_ms = 0
AND min_index_interval = 128
AND read_repair = 'BLOCKING'
AND speculative_retry = '99p';
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX rank_idx ON cycling.rank_by_year_and_name (rank) USING 'StorageAttachedIndex';