What’s the difference between creating a table and creating a columnfamily in Cassandra?
To answer the original question you posed: a column family and a table are the same thing. The name “column family” was used in the older Thrift API. The name “table” is used in the newer CQL API. More info on the APIs can be found here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/API If you need to use “group by,order … Read more