On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Alexander Staubo<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Ellis<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Matt Revelle<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Cassandra only supports one table per instance (before today?). However, as >>> Jonathan mentioned previously, what you consider to be tables are >>> represented as column families in Cassandra. >> >> See, this is why I suggested renaming <table> -- _everyone_ who hasn't >> read the Bigtable paper (which is increasingly approaching 100% of new >> users) makes this mistake. > > I have read the Bigtable paper, and I'm not making any mistake.
But that's my point. _most_ users have _not_ read the Bigtable paper, and it's those people we need to optimize for, not you and other Bigtable-readers. > To explicate on my earlier argument, here are a few other things that > I consider to be part of a table/namespace/whatchamacallit: I find it extremely depressing that you have so much time to argue about nomenclature but no time to submit patches for any of those. -Jonathan
