I find the diagrams of Evan and folks (http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/cassandra/twitter.jpg) much easier to grok than any particular naming scheme. Annotating that diagram with specific implementations or constraints, like your wiki page, is a great addition.
.. Adam On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mark McBride<[email protected]> wrote: > My first attempt at a revamped data model wiki page is up here > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DataModel2 > > This one follows phatduckk's approach of describing the data model > bottom up, which I found more intuitive. I'm interested to hear if > > 1) It corrects some of the misconceptions people have run into > 2) The bottom up approach is more approachable than top down. > 3) I got everything covered and everything right :) > > ---Mark > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Edward > Ribeiro<[email protected]> wrote: >> Right on target, Evan! >> >> When I first downloaded Cassandra, three months ago, I tried to make >> the analogy with BigTable, whose paper I'd already read, but the >> differences between Cassandra and BigTable made it quite hard to grasp >> some Cassandra concepts. >> >> Imho, as Table was renamed to Keyspace then Column should be the next >> concept to be renamed as showed by numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 of your >> list. I would suggest to rename Column to Attribute (with the >> corresponding AttributeFamily or AttributeSet). It's not the best >> name, but right off the bat is what I can suggest. >> >> Edward >> >
