# Support strategy for indexes with CQL

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/support-strategy-for-indexes-with-cql/357>\
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**Created:** [May 19, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/support-strategy-for-indexes-with-cql/357 "2019-05-19T15:02:27Z")\
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**Does YugaByte CQL support secondary indexes?**

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Yes, it does. Here are resources you may find useful:

- A blog post introducing how to use secondary indexes and how it works:  
[A Quick Guide to Secondary Indexes in YugabyteDB | Yugabyte](https://blog.yugabyte.com/a-quick-guide-to-secondary-indexes-in-yugabyte-db-database/)

- A post about the architecture, and how to add unique constraint to the secondary index  
[YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes | Yugabyte](https://blog.yugabyte.com/yugabyte-db-1-1-new-feature-speeding-up-queries-with-secondary-indexes/)

- Docs tutorial page:  
[YugabyteDB Docs Archive](https://docs.yugabyte.com/v1.1/explore/transactional/secondary-indexes/)

If you are loading data from a stream based system like Kafka, these indexes