Document column type [Deprecated]

FB DocStore is deprecated, and users will need to find alternative solutions.

To store JSON documents, we introduce a new column type "document". For example, you can create a table with a document column, just like any other column types.

-- the tables below will work for all test cases on this wiki
create table t1 (
    id int(8),
    doc document,
    primary key(id)
) engine=innodb;

-- now you can insert JSON data directly into a document column. 
insert into t1 values 
(1, '{"name":"Alex",
      "phone":6507770001,
      "address":{"houseNumber":1001,
                 "street name":"main",
                 "zipcode":98761,
                 "state":"CA"},
      "cars":["Ford", "Honda", "BMW"]}'),
(2, '{"name":"Jack Walters",
      "address":{"houseNumber":"100",
                 "street name":"main",
                 "zipcode":94403,
                 "state":"WA"},
      "children":["Alex", "Ben", "Gary", "Jennifer"]}')
;

-- use for JOIN query examples
create table t2 engine=innodb as select * from t1;

Properties of the document column type

Below is a list of properties and current limitations of document column type.

• JSON inserted into document column are always validated
• Internally we convert JSON into a binary format. So white spaces in the input JSON will not matter and will be removed in storage.
• The max size of a document column is up to 16MB.
• A document column cannot be part of a primary index.