A Family is a grouping of KeyValue pairs and is typically composed of a keyspace and the family name.
For example in Cassandra a Family relates to a ColumnFamily or in BigTable a Family relates to a an Entity kind.
Other more simplistic key/value stores may just use prefixes on keys for the family
Fields inherited from class | Fields |
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class Entity |
ALL_DATA_SOURCES, DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE |
Type Params | Return Type | Name and description |
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java.lang.String |
getFamily() |
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java.lang.String |
getKeyspace() |
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void |
setFamily(java.lang.String family) |
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void |
setKeyspace(java.lang.String keyspace) |
Methods inherited from class | Name |
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class Entity |
connection, connections, connections, datasource, getSort, isVersioned, setSort |
class java.lang.Object |
java.lang.Object#wait(long, int), java.lang.Object#wait(long), java.lang.Object#wait(), java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object), java.lang.Object#toString(), java.lang.Object#hashCode(), java.lang.Object#getClass(), java.lang.Object#notify(), java.lang.Object#notifyAll() |