Configure SASI indexes

Astra DB and DSE 6.9 do not support SSTable-Attached Secondary Indexing (SASI). SASI is an experimental feature in Apache Cassandra® and Hyper-Converged Database, and a beta feature in DataStax Enterprise 6.8.

DataStax does not recommend using SASI in production. Instead, use Storage Attached Indexes (SAI) for indexing in Cassandra 5.0 or later, DSE 6.8 or later, HCD, and Astra DB.

SASI is disabled by default in the Apache Cassandra. To enable SASI, set the sasi_indexes_enabled parameter to true in the cassandra.yaml file:

sasi_indexes_enabled: true

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