Data Types

Below is a list of all DynamoDB data types and examples of how to represent those types in queries.

NUMBER	123
STRING	'asdf' or "asdf"
BINARY	b'datadatadata'
NUMBER SET	(1, 2, 3)
STRING SET	('a', 'b', 'c')
BINARY SET	(b'a', b'c')
BOOL	TRUE or FALSE
LIST	[1, 2, 3]
MAP	{'a': 1}

Timestamps

DQL has some limited support for timestamp types. These will all be converted to Unix timestamps under the hood.

• TIMESTAMP('2015-12-3 13:32:00') or TS() - parses the timestamp in your local timezone
• UTCTIMESTAMP('2015-12-3 13:32:00') or UTCTS() - parses the timestamp as UTC
• NOW() - Returns the current timestamp

You can also add/subtract intervals from a timestamp

• NOW() - INTERVAL("1 day")
• NOW() + INTERVAL "1y 2w -5 minutes"

You can wrap any of these with MS() to convert the result into milliseconds instead of seconds.

MS(NOW() + INTERVAL '2 days')

Below is a list of all keywords that you can use for intervals

• year, years, y
• month, months
• week, weeks, w
• day, days, d
• hour, hours, h
• minute, minutes, m
• second, seconds, s
• millisecond, milliseconds, ms
• microsecond, microseconds, us