FAQ: Indexes

Do indexes in Materialize support ORDER BY?

No. Indexes in Materialize do not support ORDER BY clauses.

Indexes in Materialize do not order their keys using the data type’s natural ordering and instead orders by its internal representation of the key (the tuple of key length and value).

As such, indexes in Materialize currently do not provide optimizations for:

• Range queries; that is queries using >, >=, <, <=, BETWEEN clauses (e.g., WHERE quantity > 10, price >= 10 AND price <= 50, and WHERE quantity BETWEEN 10 AND 20).

• GROUP BY, ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses.

Do indexes in Materialize support range queries?

No. Indexes in Materialize do not support range queries.

Indexes in Materialize do not order their keys using the data type’s natural ordering and instead orders by its internal representation of the key (the tuple of key length and value).

As such, indexes in Materialize currently do not provide optimizations for:

• Range queries; that is queries using >, >=, <, <=, BETWEEN clauses (e.g., WHERE quantity > 10, price >= 10 AND price <= 50, and WHERE quantity BETWEEN 10 AND 20).

• GROUP BY, ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses.