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How does Liquibase handle data types?

Last updated: August 22, 2026

When you specify a data type in the type field of a Change Type or tag, such as the <column type="XYZ"> field, Liquibase evaluates the type to send it to your database.

Liquibase implements many generic types natively. When necessary, Liquibase converts the data type you specify into a different type preferred by your database.

For example, if you specify the data type BOOLEAN in your changelog, Liquibase passes it to a Snowflake database as a BOOLEAN. However, on a PostgreSQL database, Liquibase converts it to a BIT.

Data type support by database

The following table shows how each database platform handles Liquibase's generic data types:

Each row represents a database supported by Liquibase
For each database, data types are organized into two groups:
- Supported as-is: These Liquibase generic types work natively without conversion
- With specific mappings: These show which database-specific types Liquibase converts each generic type to

To determine how a specific Liquibase data type interacts with your database, locate your platform and database combination in the table and review both sections.

Platform/database	Supported types
Amazon DynamoDB/Amazon DynamoDB	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Databricks/Databricks	With specific mappings: `ARRAY`: `ARRAY` `ARRAY`: `ARRAY` `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BLOB`: `BINARY` `BOOLEAN`: `BOOLEAN` `CHAR`: `CHAR` `CLOB`: `CLOB` `CURRENCY`: `CURRENCY` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `TIMESTAMP` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT` `INT`: `INT` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMBER` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `TINYINT` `UUID`: `UUID` `VARCHAR`: `STRING` `XML`: `XML`
Google BigQuery/Google BigQuery	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `X`
IBM DB2/IBM DB2 LUW	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BLOB`: `BINARY, BLOB, VARBINARY` `BOOLEAN`: `BOOLEAN, SMALLINT` `CHAR`: `CHAR`• `CLOB`: `CLOB` `CURRENCY`: `DECIMAL` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `TIMESTAMP` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT` `INT`: `INTEGER` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMERIC` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `SMALLINT` `UUID`: `CHAR` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `XML`: `XML`
IBM DB2 zOS/IBM DB2 zOS	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MariaDB/MariaDB Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MariaDB SkySQL/MariaDB Sky SQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Microsoft Azure SQL Database/ Microsoft SQL Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance/Microsoft SQL Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Microsoft SQL Server/Microsoft SQL Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Microsoft SQL Server (AWS RDS)/Microsoft SQL Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Microsoft SQL Server (Google Cloud SQL)/Microsoft SQL Server	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BLOB`: `BINARY, IMAGE, VARBINARY` `BOOLEAN`: `BIT` `CHAR`: `CHAR` `CLOB`: `NVARCHAR, VARCHAR` `CURRENCY`: `MONEY, SMALLMONEY` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `DATETIME, DATETIME2` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `FLOAT` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT, REAL` `INT`: `INT` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMERIC` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `DATETIME2, TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `TINYINT` `UUID`: `UNIQUEIDENTIFIER` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `XML`: `TEXT, XML`
MongoDB/MongoDB Atlas	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MongoDB/MongoDB Community Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MongoDB/MongoDB Enterprise Server	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MySQL (AWS RDS)/MySQL	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BLOB`: `BLOB` `BOOLEAN`: `TINYINT(1)` `CHAR`: `CHAR` `CLOB`: `CLOB` `CURRENCY`: `DECIMAL` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `DATETIME` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT` `INT`: `INT` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMBER` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `TINYINT` `UUID`: `CHAR` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `XML`: `XML`
MySQL/MySQL Server	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BLOB`: `BINARY, BLOB, LONGBLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, TINYBLOB, VARBINARY`• `BOOLEAN`: `BIT, TINYINT` `CHAR`: `CHAR`• `CLOB`: `LONGTEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, TEXT, TINYTEXT` `CURRENCY`: `DECIMAL` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `DATETIME` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE, DOUBLE PRECISION` `FLOAT`: `REAL` `INT`: `INT` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMERIC` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `TINYINT` `UUID`: `CHAR` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `XML`: `LONGTEXT`
MySQL (AWS Aurora)/MySQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MySQL (AWS RDS)/MySQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MySQL (Azure Database)/MySQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
MySQL (Google Cloud SQL)/MySQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Oracle/Oracle Database	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
Oracle/Oracle Autonomous Database	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `NUMBER` `BLOB`: `BFILE, BLOB, RAW` `BOOLEAN`: `BOOLEAN, NUMBER` `CHAR`: `CHAR` `CLOB`: `CLOB, NCLOB` `CURRENCY`: `NUMBER`• `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `DATETIME, TIMESTAMP` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE PRECISION` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT` `INT`: `INTEGER` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMBER` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR2` `SMALLINT`: `NUMBER` `TIME`: `DATE` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `NUMBER` `UUID`: `RAW` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR2` `XML`: `XMLTYPE`
Oracle (AWS RDS)/Oracle	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (Amazon Redshift)/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora)/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (Azure Database Flexible Server)/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (EnterpriseDB)/PostgreSQL	Supported as-is: `BIGINT`, `BLOB`, `BOOLEAN`, `CHAR`, `CLOB`, `CURRENCY`, `DATE`, `DATETIME`, `DECIMAL`, `DOUBLE`, `FLOAT`, `INT`, `MEDIUMINT`, `NCHAR`, `NUMBER`, `NVARCHAR`, `SMALLINT`, `TIME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `TINYINT`, `UUID`, `VARCHAR`, `XML`
PostgreSQL (Google Cloud SQL)/PostgreSQL	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT, BIGSERIAL` `BLOB`: `BYTEA, OID` `BOOLEAN`: `BIT` `CHAR`: `CHARACTER` `CLOB`: `TEXT` `CURRENCY`: `DECIMAL` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `DOUBLE` `FLOAT`: `REAL` `INT`: `INT, INTEGER, SERIAL` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMERIC` `NVARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT, SMALLSERIAL` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TINYINT`: `SMALLINT` `UUID`: `CHAR` `VARCHAR`: `CHARACTER` `XML`: `TEXT, XML`
Snowflake/Snowflake	With specific mappings: `BIGINT`: `BIGINT` `BINARY`: `BINARY, VARBINARY` `BLOB`: `BLOB` `BOOLEAN`: `BOOLEAN` `CHAR`: `CHAR` `CLOB`: `VARCHAR` `CURRENCY`: `DECIMAL` `DATE`: `DATE` `DATETIME`: `DATETIME` `DECIMAL`: `DECIMAL` `DOUBLE`: `FLOAT` `FLOAT`: `FLOAT` `INT`: `INT` `MEDIUMINT`: `MEDIUMINT` `NCHAR`: `NCHAR` `NUMBER`: `NUMBER` `NVARCHAR`: `NVARCHAR` `SMALLINT`: `SMALLINT` `TEXT`: `TEXT` `TIME`: `TIME` `TIMESTAMP`: `TIMESTAMP` `TIMESTAMP_NTZ`: `TIMESTAMP_NTZ` `TINYINT`: `TINYINT` `UUID`: `CHAR` `VARCHAR`: `VARCHAR` `XML`: `XML`

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