keith-turner commented on a change in pull request #38: Continue tour URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/pull/38#discussion_r150920891
########## File path: tour/data-model.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Data Model +--- +Data is stored in Accumulo in a sorted [TreeMap]. The Keys are broken up logically into a few different parts, as seen in the image below. + +![key value pair]({{ site.url }}/images/docs/key_value.png) + +**Row ID** - Unique identifier for the row.<br/> +**Column Family** - Logical grouping of the key.<br/> +**Column Qualifier** - More specific attribute of the key.<br/> +**Column Visibility** - Security label controlling access to the key/value pair.<br/> Review comment: I think it would be useful to mention the timestamp along with all of the other fields and mention that it is used for versioning. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services