The simple usecase is as follows In big data visualization, for drawing graphs, one needs to know the standard characteristics of a measure column (numeric column) to draw and plan out graphs.
ideally, we need to this support in Ignite itself so that client code does not pull large columns (running in millions) to calculate the metric such as var, std, median, etc -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/