Now that we have installed Phoenix and HBase, let’s get started with performing the basic operations of CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE and SELECT using SQL. Let’s also take a dive into the data types and perform CRUD operations from the “Sqlline” CLI available in Phoenix.
3.1 Data Types in Phoenix
Unlike HBase which is data-type agnostic, Phoenix provides a set of data types that specify the type of data that the column holds. Each data type is internally mapped to a corresponding data type of either Java or SQL. There are Unsigned ...