Supported data types from external data sources - Amazon QuickSight

Supported data types from external data sources

The following table lists data types that are supported when using the following data sources with Amazon QuickSight.

Database engine or source Numeric data types String data types Datetime data types Boolean data types

Amazon Athena, Presto, Starburst, Trino

  • bigint

  • decimal

  • double

  • integer

  • real

  • smallint

  • tinyint

  • char

  • varchar

  • date

  • timestamp

  • boolean

Amazon Aurora, MariaDB, and MySQL

  • bigint

  • decimal

  • double

  • int

  • integer

  • mediumint

  • numeric

  • smallint

  • tinyint

  • char

  • enum

  • set

  • text

  • varchar

  • date

  • datetime

  • timestamp

  • year

Amazon OpenSearch Service

  • byte

  • integer

  • long

  • float

  • double

  • string (keyword string field type in OpenSearch Service)

  • ip

  • timestamp

  • boolean

  • binary

Oracle

  • bigint

  • decimal

  • decimal

  • int

  • money

  • numeric

  • real

  • smallint

  • smallmoney

  • tinyint

  • char

  • nchar

  • nvarchar

  • text

  • varchar

  • date

  • datetime

  • datetime2

  • datetimeoffset

  • smalldatetime

bit

PostgreSQL

  • bigint

  • decimal

  • double

  • integer

  • numeric

  • precision

  • real

  • smallint

  • char

  • character

  • text

  • varchar

  • varying character

  • date

  • timestamp

  • boolean

Apache Spark

  • bigint

  • decimal

  • double

  • integer

  • real

  • smallint

  • tinyint

  • varchar

  • date

  • timestamp

  • boolean

Snowflake

  • bigint

  • byteint

  • decimal

  • double

  • doubleprecision

  • float

  • float4

  • float8

  • int

  • integer

  • number

  • numeric

  • real

  • smallint

  • tinyint

  • char

  • character

  • string

  • text

  • varchar

  • date

  • datetime

  • time

  • timestamp

  • timestamp_*

  • boolean

Microsoft SQL Server

  • bigint

  • bit

  • decimal

  • int

  • money

  • numeric

  • real

  • smallint

  • smallmoney

  • tinyint

  • char

  • nchar

  • nvarchar

  • text

  • varchar

  • date

  • datetime

  • datetime2

  • smalldatetime

  • bit