To add to what Gabriel said, you can also specify your own default column family name with the DEFAULT_COLUMN_FAMILY property when you create your table: https://phoenix.apache.org/language/index.html#create_table
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Gabriel Reid <gabriel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > The default column family name is "0". This is the string containing the > character representation of zero (or in other words, a single byte with > value 48). > > And yes, it's possible to read Phoenix tables using the HBase API (although > it's of course a lot easier if you go via Phoenix). > > - Gabriel > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:36 AM dataware <dataware_t...@163.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can we use the HBase APIs to access the raw HBase tables? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> >