JSON

JSON is a SQL data type in the Data Types category. Native JSON data type (MySQL 5.7+, PostgreSQL 9.2+). Validates JSON automatically. Allows JSON path queries. The syntax is JSON. It returns jSON document. A typical example: CREATE TABLE api_data (data JSON); INSERT INTO api_data VALUES ('{"name": "Alice", "age": 30}'); SELECT data->'$.name' FROM api_data; -- '"Alice"' A close relative is INT, which standard integer type. Range: -2147483648 to 2147483647 (signed). Use BIGINT for larger values. A close relative is VARCHAR(n), which variable-length string with a maximum length. Most common string type. Efficient for varying-length data. A close relative is TEXT, which for large text content (up to 65535 bytes in MySQL). Variants: TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, LONGTEXT. More about this category: SQL column data types — INT, VARCHAR, TEXT, BOOLEAN, DATE, TIMESTAMP, JSON, DECIMAL. Related Data Types entries: INT, VARCHAR(n), TEXT, BOOLEAN / BOOL, DATE, TIMESTAMP / DATETIME, DECIMAL / NUMERIC, FLOAT / DOUBLE.