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Avro data types

Mass Ingestion Applications supports only some of the primitive and logical data types that Avro schemas provide.

A primitive data type is a type that allows you to represent a single data value. A logical type is an Avro primitive or complex type with extra attributes to represent a derived type. This topic applies to all target types that support Avro or Parquet output format.

The following table lists the primitive Avro data types that Mass Ingestion Applications supports:

Primitive data type	Description
INT	32-bit signed integer
LONG	64-bit signed integer
FLOAT	Single precision (32-bit) IEEE 754 floating-point number
DOUBLE	Double precision (64-bit) IEEE 754 floating-point number
BYTES	Sequence of 8-bit unsigned bytes
STRING	Unicode character sequence

The following table lists the logical Avro data types that Mass Ingestion Applications supports:

Logical data type	Description
DECIMAL	An arbitrary-precision signed decimal number of the form unscaled × 10 ^-scale
DATE	A date, without reference to a time or time zone.
TIME	A time of day that has the precision of 1 millisecond or 1 microsecond, without reference to a time zone or date.
TIMESTAMP	A date and time value that has the precision of 1 millisecond or microsecond, without reference to a particular calendar or time zone.

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