How CloudQuery represents some Arrow types as strings

Some types in Arrow are highly specialized and often there isn’t a one to one mapping to a database type. For example, Arrow has a Date32 type which is a 32-bit integer representing the number of days since the UNIX epoch. Most databases do not support this type, so CloudQuery has to represent it as a string.

Here is a list of all Arrow types and their string representation.

Null values (in nested types) are represented as (null)

CloudQuery Extension Types

Next Steps

• CloudQuery Types - Learn about CloudQuery’s custom Arrow extension types
• Creating a New Integration - Build integrations using the type system