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The following page has been changed by EvgenyRyabitskiy: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Glossary New page: = Glossary = == Table == HBase Table is three dimensional sorted map. It maps from Cartesian product of row key, column key and timestamp to cell value: '''(row:byte[] x column:byte[] x timestamp:Long) -> byte[]''' All HBase data is stored in cell of tables. == Row == One of HBase Table dimensions. I has Row Key that is arbitrary array of bytes. Table is sorted in lexicographical order by it's Row Key. == Column == One of HBase Table dimensions. A column name has the form "<family>:<label>" where <family> and <label> can be arbitrary byte arrays. A table enforces its set of <family>s (called "column families"). == Column Family ==
