Aggregate operator

This operator is used to aggregate and group the input stream.

Parameter

• group_by: An optional list of attributes over which the grouping should occur.
• aggregations: A list if elements where each element contains up to four string:
  
  • The name of the aggregate function, e.g. MAX
  • The input attribute over which the aggregation should be done
  • The name of the output attribute for this aggregation
  • The optional type of the output
• dumpAtValueCount: This parameter is used in the interval approach. Here a result is generated, each time an aggregation cannot be changed anymore. This leads to fewer results with a larger validity. With this parameter the production rate can be raised. A value of 1 means, that for every new element the aggregation operator receives new output elements are generated. This leads to more results with a shorter validity.
• outputPA: This parameter allow to dump partial aggregates instead of evaluted values. The partial aggregates can be send to other aggregation operators and do a final aggregation (e.g. in case of distribution). The input schema of an aggregate operator that read partial aggregates must state a datatype that is a partial aggregated (see example below). Remark: Aggregate has one input and requires ordered input. To combine different parital aggregations e.g. a union operator is needed to reorder the input elements.

Aggregation Functions

The set of aggregate functions is extensible. The following list is in the core Odysseus:

• MAX: The maximum element
• MIN: The minimum element
• AVG: The average element
• SUM: The sum of all elements
• COUNT: The number of elements
• MEDIAN: The median element
• STDDEV: The standard deviation

Some nonstandard aggregations: These should only be used, if you a familiar with them:

• FIRST: The first element
• LAST: The last element
• NTH: The nth element
• RATE: The number of elements per time unit
• NEST: Nest the attribute values in a list
• COMPLETENESS: Ratio of NULL-value elements to number of elements

Example:

PQL

output = AGGREGATE({
                    group_by = ['bidder'], 
                    aggregations=[ ['MAX', 'price', 'max_price', 'double'] ]
                   }, input)

// Parital Aggregate example
pa = AGGREGATE({
          name='PRE_AGG',
          aggregations=[
            ['count', 'id', 'count', 'PartialAggregate'],
            ['sum', 'id', 'avgsum', 'PartialAggregate'],
            ['min', 'id', 'min', 'PartialAggregate'],
            ['max', 'id', 'max', 'PartialAggregate']
          ],
          outputpa='true'        
        },
        nexmark:person
      )
      
out = AGGREGATE({
          name='AGG',
          aggregations=[
            ['count', 'count', 'count', 'Integer'],
            ['sum', 'avgsum', 'sum', 'Double'],
            ['avg', 'avgsum', 'avg', 'Double'],
            ['min', 'min', 'min', 'Integer'],
            ['max', 'max', 'max', 'Integer']
          ]        
        },
        pa
      )

CQL

SELECT MAX(price) AS max_price FROM input GROUP BY bidder