Generally, you can create as many columns (qualifiers) as you want. Column families are more static and have physical ramifications so these must be explicitly created and removed using alter table in the shell.
What are you trying to achieve with column families? For some cases, you could likely enforce a qualifier name convention with your application. Jon. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:39 AM, SaCvP125 <[email protected]> wrote: > Is possible to create multiple column families (with the same number and > name > columns) automatically? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/Create-Multiple-Column-Family-automatic-tp4078016.html > Sent from the HBase Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- // Jonathan Hsieh (shay) // HBase Tech Lead, Software Engineer, Cloudera // [email protected] // @jmhsieh
