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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:38:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: 1000's of column families
From: "Brian O'Neill" <bone@alumni.brown.edu>
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Its just a convenient way of prefixing:
http://hector-client.github.com/hector/build/html/content/virtual_keyspaces.html

-brian

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ben Hood <0x6e6562@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Brian O'Neill <bone@alumni.brown.edu> wrote:
>> We haven't committed either way yet, but given Ed Anuff's presentation
>> on virtual keyspaces, we were leaning towards a single column family
>> approach:
>> http://blog.apigee.com/detail/building_a_mobile_data_platform_with_cassandra_-_apigee_under_the_hood/?
>
> Is this doing something special or is this just a convenience way of
> prefixing keys to make the storage space multi-tenanted?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben


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