HBase is different is this regard. A table is comprised of multiple
column families, and they can be scanned at once. However, last time I
checked, scanning a table with two column families is still two
"seeks" across three different column families.
A similar thing can be accomplished in cassandr
Hi! Is there a way to retrieve the columns for all column families on a
given row while fetching range slices? My keyspace has two column families
and when I'm scanning over the rows, I'd like to be able to fetch the
columns in both CFs while iterating over the keys so as to avoid having to
run two