I can't say from experience, but here's a thread that implies that shorter column names are better.
http://search-hadoop.com/m/oWZQd161GI22 On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM, JinChao Wen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > If there are lots of very long column family name and column name in my > table, is there any performance impact on query? > > thx. > > > JinChao >
