On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > But if I specify which column families I want, will it still load the > entire row?
No. It will just load the content of the specified column families. Suppose row key R has col. families A,B, C, D and A itself > has 100 column labels, B has 150 and C 5, D 5 > I request row key R, but specify column families C and D. > Will it still load A,B? No. Just C and D. St.Ack > Regards > Saptarshi > > > th >> taller tables and scans than going with thick rows - this is because >> the current way RPCs work we must hold an entire row in memory when >> streaming it back to the client. If your data eventually grows >> extremely large, you could run into OOME. Thus taller tables with >
