---
title: "Create a Table"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/tutorials/alien-city/nodejs/create-table/
description: "Create a single-page serverless web application using Catalyst Advanced I/O Function and Catalyst Data Store that allows you to report or look up alien encounters in a city."
last_updated: 2026-08-17T12:16:04Z
service: All Services
type: tutorial
related_links:
  - name: "Data Store"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/introduction/
---

# Create a Table

Let’s now create a table in the Data Store of the **AlienCity** project. This table is used to store records of city names where aliens were sighted.

To create a table:

1. Navigate to the *Cloud Scale* section of the console, then click **Start Exploring**.
![catalyst_alien_city_cloud_scale_console_view](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/alien-city-cloud-scale-updated.webp)

2. Navigate to **Data Store** under *Storage* and click **Create a New Table**.
![catalyst_alien_city_console_cloudscale_datastore_view](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/alien-city-data-store-create-table.webp)

3. Enter the table’s name as "**AlienCity**" and click **Create**.
![catalyst_alien_city_confirm_table_name](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/catalyst_alien_city_confirm_table_name.webp)

> **Note:** Ensure that you enter the name exactly as instructed, because the application's code contains the same name.

The table is now created.

Next, let’s create a column in the table to store the names of the cities.

1. Click **New Column** in the *Schema View* section for the table.
![catalyst_alien_city_datastore_table_created](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/catalyst_alien_city_datastore_table_created.webp)

2. Enter the column’s name as "**CityName**". Select the data type as **Var Char** and enter the max length as "**100**". Click the **Is Unique** toggle switch to enable it.
![catalyst_alien_city_create_column_datastore](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/catalyst_alien_city_create_column_datastore.webp)

You can learn about the various data types supported by Catalyst, as well as the other properties of a column, from the [Data Store help page](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/columns/).

> **Note:** Ensure that you enter the name exactly as instructed, because the application's code contains the same name.

3. Click **Create**.

The column is now created and listed in the *Schema View* section.
![catalyst_alien_city_datastore_column_created](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/alcity/catalyst_alien_city_datastore_column_created.webp)