numeric type

Numeric types provide different data types for numerical data. ODABA supports the following numeric types:

• REAL (double, float)- float point number

• INT (long, short, long long)- integer or decimal number

• UINT - unsigned integer or decimal number

• BIT - bit string (for transient data, only)

For ODMG, C++ and Java compatibility, ODABA supports synonyms for the type names as "long" or "double". In ODABA numeric types can be defined with size and precision, which defines the maximum number of digits in the value (size) and the number of figures after the decimal point (precision).