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 ...
