Data Types

This section shows equivalents between data types in SparkSQL and in Snowflake.

Conversion Table

Spark SQL	Snowflake	Notes
BIGINT	BIGINT
BOOLEAN	BOOLEAN
BYTE	BYTEINT
CHAR	CHAR
DATE	DATE
DECIMAL	DECIMAL
DOUBLE	DOUBLE
FLOAT	FLOAT
INTEGER	INTEGER
LONG	INT	Check out note
SHORT	INT	Check out note
STRING	STRING
TIMESTAMP	TIMESTAMP_TZ
TIMESTAMPNTZ	TIMESTAMP_NTZ
VARCHAR	VARCHAR

Notes

See the documentation on Sparl SQL data types

Integer types

For the conversion of integer data types (LONG and SHORT) each one is converted to INTEGER in Snowflake, because INTEGER contains the range numbers for both of them.

• SparkSQL LONG: -32768 to 32767

• SparkSQL SHORT: -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807

• Snowflake INTEGER:-99999999999999999999999999999999999999 to +99999999999999999999999999999999999999