What do you mean by Column Family?

Column family as the name suggests it relates to a structure that has a large number of rows. These are associated with a key-value set. Key represents the title of the column while value suggests the column data. You can relate it to the hash map exist in Java. The Column family is very manageable as it provides one rows having a hundred of columns while the others provide just 2 columns. There are no limitations to list of columns.