Data Types

The Simba Databricks JDBC Driver supports many common data formats, converting between Spark, SQL, and Java data types.

The following table lists the supported data type mappings.

Spark Type	SQL Type	Java Type
BIGINT	BIGINT	java.math.BigInteger
BINARY	VARBINARY	byte[]
BOOLEAN	BOOLEAN	Boolean
DATE	DATE	java.sql.Date
DECIMAL	DECIMAL	java.math.BigDecimal
DOUBLE	DOUBLE	Double
FLOAT	REAL	Float
INT	INTEGER	Long
SMALLINT	SMALLINT	Integer
TIMESTAMP	TIMESTAMP	java.sql.Timestamp
TINYINT	TINYINT	Short
VARCHAR	VARCHAR	String