diff --git a/src/firebolt_db/firebolt_dialect.py b/src/firebolt_db/firebolt_dialect.py
index 4623ea6..049013c 100644
--- a/src/firebolt_db/firebolt_dialect.py
+++ b/src/firebolt_db/firebolt_dialect.py
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
     ARRAY,
     BIGINT,
     BOOLEAN,
-    CHAR,
     DATE,
     DATETIME,
-    FLOAT,
     INTEGER,
+    NUMERIC,
+    REAL,
+    TEXT,
     TIMESTAMP,
-    VARCHAR,
 )
 
 
@@ -31,14 +31,15 @@ class BYTEA(sqltypes.LargeBinary):
 
 # Firebolt data types compatibility with sqlalchemy.sql.types
 type_map = {
-    "char": CHAR,
-    "text": VARCHAR,
-    "varchar": VARCHAR,
-    "string": VARCHAR,
-    "float": FLOAT,
-    "double": FLOAT,
-    "double precision": FLOAT,
-    "real": FLOAT,
+    "text": TEXT,
+    "varchar": TEXT,
+    "string": TEXT,
+    "float": REAL,
+    "double": REAL,
+    "double precision": REAL,
+    "numeric": NUMERIC,
+    "decimal": NUMERIC,
+    "real": REAL,
     "boolean": BOOLEAN,
     "int": INTEGER,
     "integer": INTEGER,
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ def removesuffix(s: str, suffix: str) -> str:
     return result
 
 
-DEFAULT_TYPE = VARCHAR
+DEFAULT_TYPE = TEXT
 
 
 class UniversalSet(set):
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_firebolt_dialect.py b/tests/unit/test_firebolt_dialect.py
index e08f89c..8d67cf4 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_firebolt_dialect.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_firebolt_dialect.py
@@ -276,13 +276,12 @@ def test_get_is_nullable():
 
 
 def test_types():
-    assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.CHAR is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.CHAR
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.DATE is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.DATE
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.DATETIME is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.DATETIME
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.INTEGER is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.INTEGER
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.BIGINT is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.BIGINT
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.TIMESTAMP is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.TIMESTAMP
-    assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.VARCHAR is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.VARCHAR
+    assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.TEXT is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.TEXT
     assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.BOOLEAN is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.BOOLEAN
-    assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.FLOAT is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.FLOAT
+    assert firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.REAL is sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.REAL
     assert issubclass(firebolt_db.firebolt_dialect.ARRAY, sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine)