You can use the label support in hbase where you can add data like name:label1 name:label2 ....etc. Label can be added to any column family at anytime while adding data without pre-announcing it. In you case it can be name:first, name:second etc.
Hope it helps. rathi On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all > > Let there is a "People" table and its column family "Personal Details" > contains name, address, email etc. For instance, "Personal Details:name" > column contains value "Michael". Now I have to support multiple names for > the same person. For instance, I want the "Personal Details:name" column to > contain a list of values: "Michael", "Mike", "Misha", etc. I would not like > to use timestamps/versions for that. I would not like to implement a list as > a single string with delimiters (eg "Michael,Mike,Misha" ) either. > > How would you suggest implementing that? > > Thank you for your cooperation, > M. >
