I like the illustration of Stack. regards!
Yong On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
