Supported column data types

This section describes the supported data types for non-partition and partition columns.

Supported non-partition column data types

For non-partition columns, all data types that Athena supports except CHAR are supported (CHAR is not supported in the Delta Lake protocol itself). Supported data types include:

boolean
tinyint
smallint
integer
bigint
double
float
decimal
varchar
string
binary
date
timestamp
array
map
struct

Supported partition column data types

For partition columns, Athena supports tables with the following data types:

boolean
integer
smallint
tinyint
bigint
decimal
float
double
date
timestamp
varchar

For more information about the data types in Athena, see Data types in Amazon Athena.