My first attempt at a revamped data model wiki page is up here http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DataModel2
This one follows phatduckk's approach of describing the data model bottom up, which I found more intuitive. I'm interested to hear if 1) It corrects some of the misconceptions people have run into 2) The bottom up approach is more approachable than top down. 3) I got everything covered and everything right :) ---Mark On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Edward Ribeiro<[email protected]> wrote: > Right on target, Evan! > > When I first downloaded Cassandra, three months ago, I tried to make > the analogy with BigTable, whose paper I'd already read, but the > differences between Cassandra and BigTable made it quite hard to grasp > some Cassandra concepts. > > Imho, as Table was renamed to Keyspace then Column should be the next > concept to be renamed as showed by numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 of your > list. I would suggest to rename Column to Attribute (with the > corresponding AttributeFamily or AttributeSet). It's not the best > name, but right off the bat is what I can suggest. > > Edward >
