Hierarchical data doesn't necessarily has anything to do w column families. You can do a hierarchical model in a single column family. It's pretty straight forward.
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:34 PM, "Imran M Yousuf" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Rather than addressing the issue of how many column family may be used and > query performance on them, I would like to address the problem of > hierarchical data. > > We were facing an issue of storing hierarchical data in one of our > applications and for solving that, and many other features, we turned > developed Smart CMS - smart-cms.org If it sounds interesting to your > problem let me know, we can then collaborate in more details. > > Thank you, > > Imran > > On 28 Dec 2011 13:55, "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
