On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 01:09 -0400, Curt Micol wrote: > In response to Mr. Evan's comment regarding the Bigtable paper, does > the Cassandra community want this to be a requirement for using the > software? I would think not. Sure, most early adopters are coming > from that paper, but it shouldn't be a source of entry to use the > database, but rather to develop it.
I never meant to imply that it was a requirement[0], only that the construct in question has already been named, that name has gained a certain amount of acceptance/traction, and that name is "Column family". Jonathan's argument for renaming "table" to "keyspace" (which I found compelling), was that "table" was loaded with meaning for people coming from a relational database background. The same is true here, "Column family" comes loaded with meaning, only in this case it means exactly what it's supposed to. [0] Though now that you mention it, I would *strongly* recommend that people read the BigTable and Dynamo papers before getting started. -- Eric Evans [email protected]
