On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:40 AM, matan <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does the CF have to be in the HFile, isn't the entire HFile dedicated > to > just one CF to start with (I'm speaking at the HBase architecture level, > trying to figure why it is working as like it is). >
The CF is repeated in each key because it was thought that one day an hfile could hold keyvalues from multiple CFs; e.g. if hbase implemented locality groups. St.Ack
