Hello, I am very new to HBase and I hope to get some feedback from the community on this: I want to use HBase to store some data with pretty simple structure: each key has ~50 attributes. These data are computed daily and loaded into HBase everyday. Almost all of the keys will have updated values for some attributes, some keys may be delete and some may be added. What I'd like to have is versioning on the dataset, HBase will only serve queries using one of the versions and I will have metadata to keep track of which version should be used. My question is should I use a ColumnFamily for each version? I would need to create new ColumnFamilies on every load, and occasionally remove them if they are too old. Are ColumnFamilies meant to be used this way?
Thanks! Alex
