--- layout: global title: Data Types displayTitle: Data Types license: | Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --- Spark SQL and DataFrames support the following data types: * Numeric types - `ByteType`: Represents 1-byte signed integer numbers. The range of numbers is from `-128` to `127`. - `ShortType`: Represents 2-byte signed integer numbers. The range of numbers is from `-32768` to `32767`. - `IntegerType`: Represents 4-byte signed integer numbers. The range of numbers is from `-2147483648` to `2147483647`. - `LongType`: Represents 8-byte signed integer numbers. The range of numbers is from `-9223372036854775808` to `9223372036854775807`. - `FloatType`: Represents 4-byte single-precision floating point numbers. - `DoubleType`: Represents 8-byte double-precision floating point numbers. - `DecimalType`: Represents arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers. Backed internally by `java.math.BigDecimal`. A `BigDecimal` consists of an arbitrary precision integer unscaled value and a 32-bit integer scale. * String type - `StringType`: Represents character string values. * Binary type - `BinaryType`: Represents byte sequence values. * Boolean type - `BooleanType`: Represents boolean values. * Datetime type - `TimestampType`: Represents values comprising values of fields year, month, day, hour, minute, and second, with the session local time-zone. The timestamp value represents an absolute point in time. - `DateType`: Represents values comprising values of fields year, month and day, without a time-zone. * Complex types - `ArrayType(elementType, containsNull)`: Represents values comprising a sequence of elements with the type of `elementType`. `containsNull` is used to indicate if elements in a `ArrayType` value can have `null` values. - `MapType(keyType, valueType, valueContainsNull)`: Represents values comprising a set of key-value pairs. The data type of keys is described by `keyType` and the data type of values is described by `valueType`. For a `MapType` value, keys are not allowed to have `null` values. `valueContainsNull` is used to indicate if values of a `MapType` value can have `null` values. - `StructType(fields)`: Represents values with the structure described by a sequence of `StructField`s (`fields`). * `StructField(name, dataType, nullable)`: Represents a field in a `StructType`. The name of a field is indicated by `name`. The data type of a field is indicated by `dataType`. `nullable` is used to indicate if values of these fields can have `null` values.
Data type | Value type in Scala | API to access or create a data type |
---|---|---|
ByteType | Byte | ByteType |
ShortType | Short | ShortType |
IntegerType | Int | IntegerType |
LongType | Long | LongType |
FloatType | Float | FloatType |
DoubleType | Double | DoubleType |
DecimalType | java.math.BigDecimal | DecimalType |
StringType | String | StringType |
BinaryType | Array[Byte] | BinaryType |
BooleanType | Boolean | BooleanType |
TimestampType | java.sql.Timestamp | TimestampType |
DateType | java.sql.Date | DateType |
ArrayType | scala.collection.Seq |
ArrayType(elementType, [containsNull]) Note: The default value of containsNull is true. |
MapType | scala.collection.Map |
MapType(keyType, valueType, [valueContainsNull]) Note: The default value of valueContainsNull is true. |
StructType | org.apache.spark.sql.Row |
StructType(fields) Note: fields is a Seq of StructFields. Also, two fields with the same name are not allowed. |
StructField | The value type in Scala of the data type of this field (For example, Int for a StructField with the data type IntegerType) |
StructField(name, dataType, [nullable]) Note: The default value of nullable is true. |
Data type | Value type in Java | API to access or create a data type |
---|---|---|
ByteType | byte or Byte | DataTypes.ByteType |
ShortType | short or Short | DataTypes.ShortType |
IntegerType | int or Integer | DataTypes.IntegerType |
LongType | long or Long | DataTypes.LongType |
FloatType | float or Float | DataTypes.FloatType |
DoubleType | double or Double | DataTypes.DoubleType |
DecimalType | java.math.BigDecimal |
DataTypes.createDecimalType() DataTypes.createDecimalType(precision, scale). |
StringType | String | DataTypes.StringType |
BinaryType | byte[] | DataTypes.BinaryType |
BooleanType | boolean or Boolean | DataTypes.BooleanType |
TimestampType | java.sql.Timestamp | DataTypes.TimestampType |
DateType | java.sql.Date | DataTypes.DateType |
ArrayType | java.util.List |
DataTypes.createArrayType(elementType) Note: The value of containsNull will be true DataTypes.createArrayType(elementType, containsNull). |
MapType | java.util.Map |
DataTypes.createMapType(keyType, valueType) Note: The value of valueContainsNull will be true. DataTypes.createMapType(keyType, valueType, valueContainsNull) |
StructType | org.apache.spark.sql.Row |
DataTypes.createStructType(fields) Note: fields is a List or an array of StructFields. Also, two fields with the same name are not allowed. |
StructField | The value type in Java of the data type of this field (For example, int for a StructField with the data type IntegerType) | DataTypes.createStructField(name, dataType, nullable) |
Data type | Value type in Python | API to access or create a data type |
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ByteType |
int or long Note: Numbers will be converted to 1-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -128 to 127. |
ByteType() |
ShortType |
int or long Note: Numbers will be converted to 2-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -32768 to 32767. |
ShortType() |
IntegerType | int or long | IntegerType() |
LongType |
long Note: Numbers will be converted to 8-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. Otherwise, please convert data to decimal.Decimal and use DecimalType. |
LongType() |
FloatType |
float Note: Numbers will be converted to 4-byte single-precision floating point numbers at runtime. |
FloatType() |
DoubleType | float | DoubleType() |
DecimalType | decimal.Decimal | DecimalType() |
StringType | string | StringType() |
BinaryType | bytearray | BinaryType() |
BooleanType | bool | BooleanType() |
TimestampType | datetime.datetime | TimestampType() |
DateType | datetime.date | DateType() |
ArrayType | list, tuple, or array |
ArrayType(elementType, [containsNull]) Note: The default value of containsNull is True. |
MapType | dict |
MapType(keyType, valueType, [valueContainsNull]) Note: The default value of valueContainsNull is True. |
StructType | list or tuple |
StructType(fields) Note: fields is a Seq of StructFields. Also, two fields with the same name are not allowed. |
StructField | The value type in Python of the data type of this field (For example, Int for a StructField with the data type IntegerType) |
StructField(name, dataType, [nullable]) Note: The default value of nullable is True. |
Data type | Value type in R | API to access or create a data type |
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ByteType |
integer Note: Numbers will be converted to 1-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -128 to 127. |
"byte" |
ShortType |
integer Note: Numbers will be converted to 2-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -32768 to 32767. |
"short" |
IntegerType | integer | "integer" |
LongType |
integer Note: Numbers will be converted to 8-byte signed integer numbers at runtime. Please make sure that numbers are within the range of -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. Otherwise, please convert data to decimal.Decimal and use DecimalType. |
"long" |
FloatType |
numeric Note: Numbers will be converted to 4-byte single-precision floating point numbers at runtime. |
"float" |
DoubleType | numeric | "double" |
DecimalType | Not supported | Not supported |
StringType | character | "string" |
BinaryType | raw | "binary" |
BooleanType | logical | "bool" |
TimestampType | POSIXct | "timestamp" |
DateType | Date | "date" |
ArrayType | vector or list |
list(type="array", elementType=elementType, containsNull=[containsNull]) Note: The default value of containsNull is TRUE. |
MapType | environment |
list(type="map", keyType=keyType, valueType=valueType, valueContainsNull=[valueContainsNull]) Note: The default value of valueContainsNull is TRUE. |
StructType | named list |
list(type="struct", fields=fields) Note: fields is a Seq of StructFields. Also, two fields with the same name are not allowed. |
StructField | The value type in R of the data type of this field (For example, integer for a StructField with the data type IntegerType) |
list(name=name, type=dataType, nullable=[nullable]) Note: The default value of nullable is TRUE. |