Data Types

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

The following table lists the supported data type mappings.

Redshift Type SQL Type Java Type

BIGINT

SQL_BIGINT

Long

BOOLEAN

SQL_BIT

Boolean

CHAR

SQL_CHAR

String

DATE

SQL_TYPE_DATE

java.sql.Date

DECIMAL

SQL_NUMERIC

BigDecimal

DOUBLE PRECISION

SQL_DOUBLE

Double

GEOMETRY

SQL_LONGVARBINARY

byte[]

INTEGER

SQL_INTEGER

Integer

OID

SQL_BIGINT

Long

REAL

SQL_REAL

Float

SMALLINT

SQL_SMALLINT

Short

SUPER SQL_LONGVARCHAR String

TEXT

SQL_VARCHAR

String

TIME SQL_TYPE_TIME java.sql.Time
TIMETZ SQL_TYPE_TIME java.sql.Time

TIMESTAMP

SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP

java.sql.Timestamp

TIMESTAMPTZ

SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP

java.sql.Timestamp

VARCHAR

SQL_VARCHAR

String