Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cassandra-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 35581 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2009 17:32:27 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 13 Aug 2009 17:32:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 51111 invoked by uid 500); 13 Aug 2009 17:32:34 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cassandra-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 51051 invoked by uid 500); 13 Aug 2009 17:32:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cassandra-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 51041 invoked by uid 99); 13 Aug 2009 17:32:34 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:32:34 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of jbellis@gmail.com designates 209.85.219.212 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.219.212] (HELO mail-ew0-f212.google.com) (209.85.219.212) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:32:25 +0000 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so900650ewy.12 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:32:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mDqZnJO10GYztAxUnWn8DrjSTGKuJCDxdxx8p7Yn2H0=; b=vGC/WIiNBaTVuUjeOIWulJutQ6ahQ93T4FP2i5+6vHc5pe0vacXxv6gMyD487IaQKn UlsY+qgdxAFydqZwosP5vojhteFW6PZQFsPmZ/s+bY57mT3pHXUKOXALvlS3EqKa8Xki MR/wp3NRhSy8s315IJNgDH2PAkjFVG1lDBhBw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=G6/ELdGYOnxkQJgiQOW3K79DsT/8Y0x9Kx7mUsexu8TDTmiPkqn8qrHHwOC/uqumqt fQTxT2fB/K30X1rfTB6h2MHdshfEN42clgWumfA63EdBbQO+VdrQiYXhWM1/cP8dm55v wWwxXniib12YugSmBVp5F05VTJqcRVQteZi/8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.90.67 with SMTP id d45mr222059wef.42.1250184724929; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:32:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <7c5131fa0908121505m6393cd50l4361cc878d91867f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:32:04 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fixing the data model names From: Jonathan Ellis To: cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Evan Weaver wrote: > What do you see as the benefit of ColumnFamily? It correctly implies "group of columns" w/o sounding excessively generic like ColumnCollection or something, and it means mostly the same thing as it does in Bigtable, which can be useful in understanding it. -Jonathan