Data Types

There are primitive and container data types in AnnaDB.

Primitives

Primitive data types are a set of basic types whose values can not be decoupled. In TySON, primitives are represented as prefix|value| or prefix only. Prefix in AnnaDB shows the data type.

Type	Description	Prefix	Example
Number	Integer or float point number	n	n|101|
String	Any string. `|` symbols must be escaped with `\`	s	s|Lorem ipsum|
Bool	A boolean value	b	b|true|
Null	A marker that indicating that something has no value	null	null
Unix Timestamp	The number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch	uts	uts|123456789|
Link	Id of an object. The collection name is used for the prefix	Collection name	users|e0bbcda2-0911-495e-9f0f-ce00db489f10|

Containers

Container data types keep primitive and container objects using specific rules.

Type	Description	Prefix	Example
Vector	An ordered set of elements of any type	v	v[n|1|,n|2|,n|3|,]
Map	An associative array	m	m{ s|bar|: s|baz|,}