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The "DataModel" page has been changed by AmichaiRothman. The comment on this change is: clarified columns vs. super columns using maps. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DataModel?action=diff&rev1=7&rev2=8 -------------------------------------------------- So far we've covered "normal" columns and rows. Cassandra also supports super columns: columns whose values are super columns; that is, a super column is a (sorted) associative array of columns. + One can thus think of columns and super columns in terms of maps: A row in a regular column family is basically a sorted map of column names to column values; a row in a super column family is a sorted map of super column names to maps of column names to column values. + A JSON description of this layout: {{{ {
