You can use the create command to create an employee table, and within it we will add a column family: personal. As Bigtable is a columnar store where all columns are logically grouped into column families, a table should have at least one column family.
Running the list command now should confirm that exactly one table, the employee, table has been set up, as shown here:
- To insert our first row into this table, we will need to specify a row key, the column family, and the name of the column where this insert should occur. The row key uniquely identifies a row and is used to index all the columns and column values that are present in one row. It is this index row key that allows very fast lookup operations and quick scan operations in HBase and Bigtable. When we insert a value in a particular row we need to specify....
