Hi, A general question regarding column families. It is said in the doc that HBase doesn't do well with more than 2-3 column families because flushing and compactions are done on a per region basis which should be addressed in the future: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#number.of.cfs
Is it still the case in new versions of HBase or there were some improvements on this? I also don't understand why using several column families might be useful even if data access is column scoped. Why can't we just create several tables instead? Row key is stored with every cell anyway and it's possible to filter by column when querying. In general, I don't see when it might make sense to have more than one column family in a table with current limitations. Thanks in advance.
