Table is the old name for Keyspace. I agree that CFs are closer to the traditional use of the "table" concept (which is why we changed it).
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Morten Wegelbye Nissen <m...@monit.dk> wrote: > Hi Sirs, > > I have for CASSANDRA-859 removed the keyspace part from the whole cli > syntax. And made i possible to change keyspace. Current keyspace is stored > in the client. > > Natural next step for me is to remove the keyspace part in the server side, > So next step was to go for CASSANDRA-714 - this took me a little more into > the details on how the server side is working. Doing my browsing around of > how stuff works I see that from time to time the keyspace is named a > keyspace, and in other cases its a table. > Is there any logic in when what word is used? Lagacy? Or is it just becuase > someone likes the one word over the other? > > To my limited knowledge so far, if one really wants to "map" the therms to > rldbms words, I see the keyspace as a schema, and the cf's as tables, no? > > ./Morten > > btw. If one tries to run inside eclipse jline.terminal = > jline.UnsupportedTerminal is very usefull. >
