Hi there-

re:  "number of CF's"

Yes.  Fewer is better.

http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#schema

re:  "sub column families"


There aren't "sub column families" - it's just columns (within a CF).

http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel


If I am not mistaken you asked a similar question to the dist-list a few
weeks ago. The answers haven't changed.






On 12/28/11 2:53 AM, "Mohammad Tariq" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>    Having less no. of column families is advisable. It is feasible to
>have 2 or 3 sub column families within a single column family???I
>want to store xml data in Hbase and I have sub tags that may go down
>to 2 or 3 levels.
>
>Regards,
>    Mohammad Tariq
>


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