What's the difference between creating a table and creating a columnfamily in Cassandra?

Question

I need details from both performance and query aspects, I learnt from some site that only a key can be given when using a columnfamily, if so what would you suggest for

Answer 1

For Cassandra 3+ and cqlsh 5.0.1

To verify, enter into a cqlsh prompt within keyspace (ksp):

CREATE COLUMNFAMILY myTable (
     ...  id text,
     ...  name int
);

And type 'desc myTable'.
You'll see:

CREATE TABLE ksp.myTable (
      ...  id text,
      ...  name int
);

They are synonyms, and Cassandra uses table by default.