You can declare a field as BINARY using add-field -type BINARY. You then read and write the field value using a Java byte array.

If you want to store a large binary object, then you should use the LOB APIs rather than a BINARY field. For information on using the LOB APIs, see the Oracle NoSQL API Large Object API introduction.

Note that FIXED_BINARY should be used over the BINARY datatype any time you know that all the field values will be of the same size. FIXED_BINARY is a more compact storage format because it does not need to store the size of the array. See Using Fixed Binary for information on the FIXED_BINARY datatype.

To define a simple two-column table where the primary key is a UID and the second column contains a binary field, you use the following script:

## Enter into table creation mode
table create -name myTable
## Now add the fields
add-field -type INTEGER -name uid

## Create an enum field
add-field -type BINARY -name myBinary

## A primary key must be defined for every table
primary-key -field uid

## Exit table creation mode
exit

## Add the table to the store.
plan add-table -name myTable -wait 

To write the byte array, use Row.put().

TableAPI tableH = kvstore.getTableAPI();

Table myTable = tableH.getTable("myTable");

Row row = myTable.createRow();
row.put("uid", 12345);

String aString = "The quick brown fox.";
try {
    row.put("myByteArray", aString.getBytes("UTF-8"));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
    uee.printStackTrace();
}

tableH.put(row, null, null); 

To read the binary field, use Row.get().asBinary(). This returns a BinaryValue class instance. You can then use BinaryValue.get() to retrieve the stored byte array.

For example:

TableAPI tableH = kvstore.getTableAPI();

Table myTable = tableH.getTable("myTable");

/* Create a primary key for user id 12345 and get a row */
PrimaryKey key = myTable.createPrimaryKey();
key.put("uid", 12345);
Row row = tableH.get(key, null);

byte[] b = row.get("myByteArray").asBinary().get();
String aString = new String(b);
System.out.println("aString: " + aString);