Supported Data Types | Teradata MOTF - Supported Data Types - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® Open Table Format for Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake User Guide

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
20.00
Published
October 2025
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2025-10-25
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Category Teradata Data Type Teradata DataType Code Equivalent Type exists in Iceberg? Iceberg Data Type
Numeric BYTEINT 7 No INTEGER - Use the closest type
Numeric SMALLINT 8 No INTEGER - Use the closest type
Numeric INTEGER 9 Yes INTEGER
Numeric BIGINT 36 Yes LONG
Numeric REAL/FLOAT 10 Yes DOUBLE
Numeric DECIMAL(p,s) 11 Yes DECIMAL(p,s)
Numeric NUMBER(p,s) 12 Yes DECIMAL(p,s)
Numeric NUMBER, NUMBER(*,s) N/A No Not supported
Date/Time DATE 15 Yes DATE
Date/Time TIME 16 Yes TIME
Date/Time TIME WITH TIME ZONE N/A No Not supported
Date/Time TIMESTAMP 17 Yes TIMESTAMP
Date/Time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 32 Yes TIMESTAMP_WTZ
Date/Time INTERVAL 19 No Not Supported
Character

CHAR(n)

n <= 64000 for Latin

n <= 32000 for Unicode

1 No STRING UTF8 - Use the closest type
Character

VARCHAR(n)

n <=64000 for Latin

n <= 32000 for Unicode

2 Yes

STRING UTF8

Character CLOB N/A Yes

STRING UTF8

Not Supported(in phase 1)

Binary

BYTE(n)

n <=64000

3 Yes FIXED(n)
Binary

VARBYTE(n)

n <=64000

4 Yes binary
Binary BLOB(n) 33 Yes

binary

Not supported (in phase 1)

External UDT UDT N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT BSON/JSON N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT XML N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT PERIOD N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT ARRAY/VARRAY N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT DATASET N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT VECTOR N/A No Not Supported
Internal UDT Geospatial types - ST_GEOMETRY, MBR, MBB N/A No Not Supported