Supported Datatypes

Spark and TileDB have slight variations in their supported datatypes. This table below shows a mapping between the (core) TileDB and Spark datatypes for easy reference.
TileDB DataType
Spark SQL Datatype
TILEDB_INT8
BYTE
TILEDB_UINT8
SHORT
TILEDB_INT16
SHORT
TILEDB_UINT16
INTEGER
TILEDB_INT32
INTEGER
TILEDB_UINT32
LONG
TILEDB_INT64
LONG
TILEDB_UINT64
LONG
TILEDB_FLOAT32
FLOAT
TILEDB_FLOAT64
DOUBLE
TILEDB_DATETIME_DAY
DATE
TILEDB_DATETIME_MS
TIMESTAMP

Driver Options

Partitioning

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TileDB DataType	Spark SQL Datatype
`TILEDB_INT8`	`BYTE`
`TILEDB_UINT8`	`SHORT`
`TILEDB_INT16`	`SHORT`
`TILEDB_UINT16`	`INTEGER`
`TILEDB_INT32`	`INTEGER`
`TILEDB_UINT32`	`LONG`
`TILEDB_INT64`	`LONG`
`TILEDB_UINT64`	`LONG`
`TILEDB_FLOAT32`	`FLOAT`
`TILEDB_FLOAT64`	`DOUBLE`
`TILEDB_DATETIME_DAY`	`DATE`
`TILEDB_DATETIME_MS`	`TIMESTAMP`