Top "Column-family" questions

A column family is a NoSQL object that contains columns of related data.

How to add new column family to an existing HBase table?

I created a table by create 'tablename', 'columnfamily1' Now is it possible to add another column family 'columnfamily2'? …

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Cassandra has a limit of 2 billion cells per partition, but what's a partition?

In Cassandra Wiki, it is said that there is a limit of 2 billion cells (rows x columns) per partition. But …

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What NoSQL database (categories) support versioning?

I thought that regardless of whether a NoSQL aggregate store is a key-value, column-family or document database, it would support …

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