6 tables with 1 CF apiece is a perfectly reasonable approach, particularly if the data is to be processed separately.
If the data is all to be processed at the same time (e.g., regularly all in one MR job) then you might want to consider a single table with a 1 CF and heterogenous rows. On 3/2/12 1:49 PM, "Oleg Ruchovets" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi , according hbase book ( >http://hbase.apache.org/book/number.of.cfs.html ) it is recommended as >less >column families as possible. > I our case we have a schema which has 6 column families and we think >about >solution like one column families per table. I mean we are going to create >6 tables with one column family. Is it suitable solution? May it is >possible to resolve multicolumn families in another way? >Thanks in advance. >Oleg.
