Well, yes and no. Smaller keys still mean less network traffic, potentially less IO, and maybe faster operations if you're trying to do application logic. Using data or default or just d probably doesn't matter in the long term (although there are certainly cases where it might). On Dec 3, 2013 11:57 PM, "David Medinets" <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://hbase.apache.org/book/rowkey.design.html - unless I am > misunderstanding much of the advice given for HBase simply doesn't apply to > Accumulo. For example "Try to keep the ColumnFamily names as small as > possible, preferably one character (e.g. "d" for data/default)." >
