Ya sure you can have that... as you always specify columnfamily to read out of hbase, i dont think there should be a problem in that.
∞ Shashwat Shriparv On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Ramasubramanian Narayanan < ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it fine to use same column name for 2 different column families? > > For example, > > In a table "emp", > > can we have column name "dob" under column family "F1" & "F2"? > > Please let me know the impact of having like this if any... > > Note : I don't want to use dob1 or some other field name for the second > column... use case is like that... > > regards, > Rams >