Supported data types

QuickSight supports the following primitive data types: date, float, integer, and string. If you load data from files and/or databases that contain fields that cannot be implicitly converted to the preceding primitive data types, ensure that they are explicitly converted before they are imported to QuickSight. The following table lists the source data types for specific database engines:

Database type

Numeric data types

String data types

Date-time data types

Boolean data types

SQL Server

Bigint

Decimal

Float

Int

Money

Numeric

Real

Smallint

Smallmoney

Tinyint

Char

Nchar

Nvarchar

Text

Varchar

Date

Datetime

Datetime2

Datetimeoffset

Smalldatetime

bit

Aurora, MariaDB, and MySQL

Bigint

Decimal

Float

Int

Integer

mediumint

numeric

Smallint

Tinyint

Binary

Blob

Char

Enum

Set

Text

Varbinary

Varchar

Date

Datetime

Timestamp

Year

Tinyint

PostgreSQL

Bigint

Decimal

Double

Integer

Numeric

Precision

Real

Smallint

Char

Character

Varchar

Varying

character

Text

Date

Timestamp

Boolean

Athena

Bigint

Decimal

Double

Integer

Real

Smallint

Tinyint

Char

Varchar

Date

Timestamp

Boolean

The Datetime field should be in one of the following formats, which are based on the Joda project class DateTimeFormat (http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html):

  • yyyy-MM-dd, for example, 2016-10-01
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH, for example, 2016-10-01T16
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSS, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29.322
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss,SSS, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29, 322
  • yyyy-MM, for example, 2016-10
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29.322-08:00
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss,SSSZZ, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29,322-08:00
  • yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZZ, for example, 2016-10-01T16:08:29-08:00
  • yyyy-DDD, for example, 2016-066
  • yyyy-DDDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ, for example, 2016-066T16:08:29.322-08:00
  • yyyy-DDDTHH:mm:ssZZ, for example, 2016-066T16:08:29-08:00
  • yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS, for example, 2016-10-01 16:08:29,322
  • yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, for example, 2016-10-01 16:08:29
  • yyyyMMdd, for example, 20161001
  • yyyyMMddTHHmmss.SSSZ, for example, 20161001T160829.322-0800
  • yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ, for example, 20161001T160829-0800
  • yyyyDDD, for example, 2016066
  • yyyyDDDTHHmmss.SSSZ, for example, 2016066T160829.322-0800
  • yyyyDDDTHHmmssZ, for example, 2016066T160829-0800
  • yyyy, for example, 2016
  • yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss, for example, 2016/10/01 16:08:29
  • yyyy/MM/dd, for example, 2016/10/01
  • MM/dd/yyyy, for example, 10/01/2016
  • MM/dd/yy, for example, 10/01/15
  • M/d/yyyy, for example, 1/1/2016
  • M/d/yy, for example, 1/1/15
  • MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss, for example, 10/01/2016 16:08:29
  • MM/dd/yy h:mm a, for example, 10/01/15 4:08 PM
  • MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss, for example, 10/01/15 16:08:29
  • MM/dd/yy HH:mm, for example, 10/01/15 16:08
  • MM/dd/yy hh:mm a, for example, 10/01/15 04:08 PM
  • MMM dd, for example, Oct 01
  • MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss, for example, Oct 01 2016 16:08:29
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