Data Types

    A data type describes the logical type of a value in the table ecosystem. It can be used to declare input and/or output types of Python user-defined functions. Users of the Python Table API work with instances of within the Python Table API or when defining user-defined functions.

    A list of all pre-defined data types can be found below.

    Data Type and Python Type Mapping

    For vectorized Python UDF, the input types and output type are pandas.Series. The element type of the pandas.Series corresponds to the specified data type.