On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > No benefit? > Making it easier to use column families as part of your data model is a > fairly good benefit
No, it's not. (This is why I'm of the opinion that blog posts encouraging thinking of the cassandra model as a 4-level nested hash are counterproductive.)