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Andres de la Peña commented on CASSANDRA-18060:
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Semantic, so we can distinguish between the max, min, sum, avg and count
aggregate functions that aggregate rows, and the new functions that aggregate
the collection elements row per row. Otherwise, there can be ambiguous
situations.
> Add aggregation scalar functions on collections
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-18060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18060
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: CQL/Semantics
> Reporter: Andres de la Peña
> Assignee: Andres de la Peña
> Priority: Normal
> Fix For: 4.2
>
> Time Spent: 1h 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> The new mechanism for dynamically building native functions introduced by
> CASSANDRA-17811 can be used to provide within-collection aggregation
> functions. We can use that mechanism to add new CQL functions to get:
> * The number of items in a collection.
> * The max/min items of a collection.
> * The sum/avg of the items of a numeric collection.
> * The keys or the values of a map.
> For example:
> {code:java}
> CREATE TABLE k.t (k int PRIMARY KEY, l list<int>, m map<int, int>);
> INSERT INTO t(k, l, m) VALUES (0, [1, 2, 3], {1:10, 2:20, 3:30});
> > SELECT map_keys(m), map_values(m) FROM t;
> system.map_keys(m) | system.map_values(m)
> --------------------+----------------------
> {1, 2, 3} | [10, 20, 30]
> > SELECT collection_count(m), collection_count(l) FROM t;
> system.collection_count(m) | system.collection_count(l)
> ----------------------------+----------------------------
> 3 | 3
> > SELECT collection_min(l), collection_max(l) FROM t;
> system.collection_min(l) | system.collection_max(l)
> --------------------------+--------------------------
> 1 | 3
> > SELECT collection_sum(l), collection_avg(l) FROM t;
> system.collection_sum(l) | system.collection_avg(l)
> --------------------------+--------------------------
> 6 | 2
> {code}
> Note that this type of aggregation is different from the kind of aggregation
> provided by {{min}}, {{max}}, {{sum}} and {{avg}}, which aggregate entire
> collections across rows. Here we only aggregate the items of a collection row
> per row.
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