SIARD

SIARD stands for Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases and is an open format developed by the Swiss Federal Archives. SIARD is a data archival format (standardized XML meant to reliably read and write databases regardless of its original format). Full Convert can read and write SIARD format efficiently.

By its structure, SIARD is a collection of files compressed as a ZIP archive. It contains metadata information and data, including large binary data items.

SIARD data types we support

Integral:

bigintint (integer)smallint

Decimal:

decimal (numeric, dec)double precisionfloat (real)

Text:

char (character)clob (character large object)nchar (national character, national char)nchar varying (national char varying, national character varying)nclob (nchar large object, national character large object)varchar (char varying, character varying)

Binary:

binarybitvarbinary (binary varying, bit varying)

Date/Time:

datetimetimestamptimestamp with time zone (time with time zone)

Large objects:

blob (binary large object)clob (character large object)nclob (nchar large object, national character large object)xml

Other:

booleaninterval