I acknowledge everything you say as true - but disagree that the greatest level of flexibility results in the best experience for the user. BigTable is defined as a map - I think most users expect a map, and that making Accumulo behave like a multi-map will most likely result in poorer adoption.
On Dec 22, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Keith Turner wrote: > BigTable did not define LSM iterators. In the context of LSM > iterators, I think of the system as an online sort of the data that > continually pulls sorted subsets of the data through the iterator > stack. Sorting data does not imply making it unique. Giving > iterators access to all data gives them the greatest level of > flexibility.
