Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

A complete mapping

With this insight, we can now generate a complete mapping between the components of a column family and the CQL-level table structure components they represent:

Column Family Component	CQL3 Table Component
RowKey	Partition Key
Cell name	The values of clustering column(s), if any, followed by the name of the data column
Cell value	The value in the row/column identified by the partition key, clustering column(s), and the column name

To reinforce this idea, let's apply our visualization from the previous section to the more complex structure of home_status_updates:

The main insight here is that every value in ...