Is there a standard naming convention for keysets, column families, and column names

Question

I am new to this technology, I have a hard time to find answer to this basic question. Is there widely adopted naming convention for keysets, column families and column names, such as

• PascalCase
• camelCase
• snake_case
• alllowercase

Project I am looking at is using alllowercase, so I am wondering if there is a reason behind it.

Answer 1

You should be good with anything that is all lower case. Anything with mixed case will need to be explicitly escaped "StRinG" or else it will be automatically lowercased. I like snake_case but thats just a personal preference.