On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:23:48 -0600 Jonathan Ellis wrote: JE> 2010/3/3 Ted Zlatanov : >> I don't understand the advantages of ColumnFamilies over a >> SuperColumnFamily with just one supercolumn.  Why have the former if the >> latter is functionally equivalent? JE> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-598 So is there a vague plan to move to just SuperColumnFamilies once this is resolved? The API can emulate ColumnFamilies, obviously. Or are ColumnFamilies here to stay? Ted