I understand the BigTable precedent issue...but it's also a group of rows, and a group of keys, just as much. "Column Family" leaves out the keys which I think is a big part of the noob confusion. It sounds like it could be the same thing as a Super Column, which is also a group of columns.
Evan On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Jonathan Ellis<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Evan Weaver<[email protected]> wrote: >> What do you see as the benefit of ColumnFamily? > > It correctly implies "group of columns" w/o sounding excessively > generic like ColumnCollection or something, and it means mostly the > same thing as it does in Bigtable, which can be useful in > understanding it. > > -Jonathan > -- Evan Weaver
