Super column

A super column is a tuple (a pair) with a binary super column name and a value that maps it to many columns.

[1] They consist of a key–value pairs, where the values are columns.

Theoretically speaking, super columns are (sorted) associative array of columns.

Written in the JSON-like syntax, a super column definition can be like this: Where: "databases" are keyspace; "Cassandra" and "HBase" are rowKeys; "name" and "address" are super column names; "firstName", "city", "age", etc.

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