Listing Secondary Indexes

Describes how to list information about the secondary indexes created on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON tables.

About this task

You can view secondary indexes using the Control System or the maprcli table index commands. You need the following permissions.

  • readAce on the volume
  • lookupdir on directories in the table path
NOTE
The mapr user is not treated as a superuser. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database does not allow the mapr user to perform this operation unless that user is given the relevant permission or permissions with access-control expressions.

Listing Indexes in the Control System

Procedure

Log in to the Control System and go to the Indexes tab in the table information page.
The list of indexes displays in the All indexes pane and for each index, the page displays the following:
Column Name Column Description
Index Name The name of the index
Fields Indexed The number of fields on the JSON table that are indexed and used for ordering
Fields Covered The number of fields on the JSON table that are indexed, but not used for ordering
State The replication state of the index
Up to Date Whether the index is up to date
Hashed Whether the index is hashed
Size The size of the index

What to do next

To view more details on individual indexes, see Viewing Secondary Index Details.

Listing Indexes Using the CLI

About this task

The following is basic command for listing secondary indexes. 
maprcli table index list 
            -path <path>
            -refreshnow < true | false >

See table index list for more information.