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Aggregation

Notice: Some of the examples below are referenced from ClickHouse Documentation but have been adapted and modified to work in ByConity.

any

Selects the first encountered value. The query can be executed in any order and even in a different order each time, so the result of this function is indeterminate. To get a determinate result, you can use the ‘min’ or ‘max’ function instead of ‘any’.

In some cases, you can rely on the order of execution. This applies to cases when SELECT comes from a subquery that uses ORDER BY.

When a SELECT query has the GROUP BY clause or at least one aggregate function, ByConity (in contrast to MySQL) requires that all expressions in the SELECT , HAVING , and ORDER BY clauses be calculated from keys or from aggregate functions. In other words, each column selected from the table must be used either in keys or inside aggregate functions. To get behavior like in MySQL, you can put the other columns in the any aggregate function.

Syntax

any(column)

Arguments

  • column – The column name.

Returned value

  • first value encontered. Type is same as input column.

Example

SELECT any(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─any(number)─┐
│ 0 │
└─────────────┘

anyHeavy

Selects a frequently occurring value using the heavy hitters algorithm. If there is a value that occurs more than in half the cases in each of the query’s execution threads, this value is returned. Normally, the result is nondeterministic.

Syntax

anyHeavy(column)

Arguments

  • column – The column name.

Returned value

  • most frequent value. Type is same as input column.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionAnyHeavy(id Int) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY id;
INSERT INTO test.functionAnyHeavy values (1),(1),(1),(2),(3);
SELECT anyHeavy(id) FROM test.functionAnyHeavy;
┌─anyHeavy(id)─┐
│ 1 │
└──────────────┘

anyLast

Selects the last value encountered. The result is just as indeterminate.

Syntax

anyLast(column)

Arguments

  • column – The column name.

Returned value

  • last value encountered. Type is same as input column.

Example

SELECT anyLast(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─anyLast(number)─┐
│ 9 │
└─────────────────┘

argMax

Calculates the arg value for a maximum val value. If there are several different values of arg for maximum values of val , returns the first of these values encountered.

Syntax

argMax(arg, val)

Arguments

  • arg — Argument.
  • val — Value.

Returned value

  • arg value that corresponds to maximum val value. Type is same as arg type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionArgMax (user String, salary Int) Engine=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY user;
INSERT INTO test.functionArgMax VALUES ('director',5000),('manager',3000),('worker',1000);
SELECT argMax(user, salary) FROM test.functionArgMax;
┌─argMax(user, salary)─┐
│ director │
└──────────────────────┘

argMin

Calculates the arg value for a minimum val value. If there are several different values of arg for minimum values of val , returns the first of these values encountered.

Syntax

argMin(arg, val)

Arguments

  • arg — Argument.
  • val — Value.

Returned value

  • arg value that corresponds to minimum val value. Type is same as arg type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionArgMin (user String, salary Int) Engine=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY user;
INSERT INTO test.functionArgMin VALUES ('director',5000),('manager',3000),('worker',1000);
SELECT argMin(user, salary) FROM test.functionArgMin;
┌─argMin(user, salary)─┐
│ worker │
└──────────────────────┘

avg

Calculates the arithmetic mean.

Syntax

avg(x)

Arguments

  • x — input values, must be Integer, Float or Decimal.

Returned value

  • The arithmetic mean, always as Float64.
  • NaN if the input parameter x is empty.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionAvg (x Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionAvg SELECT * FROM numbers(6);
SELECT avg(x) FROM test.functionAvg;
┌─avg(x)──┐
│ 2.5e+00 │
└─────────┘
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionAvg (x Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
SELECT avg(x) FROM test.functionAvg;
┌─avg(x)─┐
│ NaN │
└────────┘

corr

Calculates the Pearson correlation coefficient: Σ((x - x̅)(y - y̅)) / sqrt(Σ((x - x̅)^2) * Σ((y - y̅)^2)). This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the corrStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

corr(x, y)

Arguments

  • x — input values, must be Integer, Float.
  • y — input values, must be Integer, Float.

Returned value

  • Pearson correlation coefficient, always as Float64.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionCorr (x Int8, y Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionCorr VALUES (1,5),(2,4),(3,3),(4,2),(5,1);
SELECT corr(x,y) FROM test.functionCorr;
┌─corr(x, y)─┐
│ -1e+00 │
└────────────┘

covarPop

Calculates the value of Σ((x - x̅)(y - y̅)) / n. This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the covarPopStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

covarPop(x, y)

Arguments

  • x — input values, must be Integer, Float.
  • y — input values, must be Integer, Float.

Returned value

  • Σ((x - x̅)(y - y̅)) / n, always as Float64.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionCovarPop (x Int8, y Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionCovarPop VALUES (1,5),(2,4),(3,3),(4,2),(5,1);
SELECT covarPop(x,y) FROM test.functionCovarPop;
┌─covarPop(x, y)─┐
│ -2e+00 │
└────────────────┘

covarSamp

Calculates the value of Σ((x - x̅)(y - y̅)) / (n - 1). This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the covarSampStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

covarSamp(x, y)

Arguments

  • x — input values, must be Integer, Float.
  • y — input values, must be Integer, Float.

Returned value

  • Σ((x - x̅)(y - y̅)) / (n - 1), always as Float64.
  • When n <= 1, returns NaN.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionCovarSamp (x Int8, y Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionCovarSamp VALUES (1,5),(2,4),(3,3),(4,2),(5,1);
SELECT covarSamp(x,y) FROM test.functionCovarSamp;
┌─covarSamp(x, y)─┐
│ -2.5e+00 │
└─────────────────┘
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionCovarSamp (x Int8, y Int8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionCovarSamp VALUES (1,5);
SELECT covarSamp(x,y) FROM test.functionCovarSamp;
┌─covarSamp(x, y)─┐
│ NaN │
└─────────────────┘

groupArray

Creates an array of argument values. Values can be added to the array in any (indeterminate) order.

The second version (with the max_size parameter) limits the size of the resulting array to max_size elements. For example, groupArray(1)(x) is equivalent to [any (x)] .

In some cases, you can still rely on the order of execution. This applies to cases when SELECT comes from a subquery that uses ORDER BY .

Syntax

groupArray(x)
groupArray(max_size)(x)

Arguments

  • x — input values.

Returned value

  • array of values. Type is Array.

Example

select groupArray(number) from numbers(10);
┌─groupArray(number)─────────────┐
│ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] │
└────────────────────────────────┘
select groupArray(5)(number) from numbers(10);
┌─groupArray(5)(number)─┐
│ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] │
└───────────────────────┘

groupBitAnd

Applies bitwise AND for series of numbers.

Syntax

groupBitAnd(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in UInt* type.

Return value

  • Value of the UInt* type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.groupBitAnd (num UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree() ORDER BY num;
INSERT INTO test.groupBitAnd VALUES (44),(28),(13),(85);
SELECT groupBitAnd(num) FROM test.groupBitAnd;
┌─groupBitAnd(num)─┐
│ 4 │
└──────────────────┘

Bit representation of 44,28,13 and 85 are 00101100,00011100,00001101 and 01010101. The bit and of the four numbers is 00000100 which is equal to 4.

groupBitOr

Applies bitwise OR for series of numbers.

Syntax

groupBitOr(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in UInt* type.

Returned value

  • Value of the UInt* type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionGroupBitOr (num UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY num;
INSERT INTO test.functionGroupBitOr VALUES (44),(28),(13),(85);
SELECT groupBitOr(num) FROM test.functionGroupBitOr;
┌─groupBitOr(num)─┐
│ 125 │
└─────────────────┘

Bit representation of 44,28,13 and 85 are 00101100,00011100,00001101 and 01010101. The bit or of the four numbers is 01111101 which is equal to 125.

groupBitXor

Applies bitwise XOR for series of numbers.

Syntax

groupBitXor(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in UInt* type.

Return value

  • Value of the UInt* type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionGroupBitXor (num UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY num;
INSERT INTO test.functionGroupBitXor VALUES (44),(28),(13),(85);
SELECT groupBitXor(num) FROM test.functionGroupBitXor;

┌─groupBitXor(num)─┐
│ 104 │
└──────────────────┘

Bit representation of 44,28,13 and 85 are 00101100,00011100,00001101 and 01010101. The bit xor of the four numbers is 01101000 which is equal to 104.

groupBitmap

Bitmap or Aggregate calculations from a unsigned integer column, return cardinality of type UInt64, if add suffix -State, then return bitmap object.

Syntax

groupBitmap(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in UInt* type.

Return value

  • Value of the UInt64 type.

Example

SELECT groupBitmapState(number) FROM numbers(4);
┌─groupBitmap(number)─┐
│ 4 │
└─────────────────────┘

groupBitmapAnd

Calculations the AND of a bitmap column, return cardinality of type UInt64, if add suffix -State, then return bitmap object.

Syntax

groupBitmapAnd(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt*) type.

Return value

  • Value of the UInt64 type.

Example

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS bitmap_column_expr_test2;

CREATE TABLE bitmap_column_expr_test2(tag_id String,z AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt32)) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY tag_id;

INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag1', bitmapBuild(cast([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag2', bitmapBuild(cast([6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag3', bitmapBuild(cast([2,4,6,8,10,12] as Array(UInt32))));

SELECT groupBitmapAnd(z) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');
┌─groupBitmapAnd(z)─┐
3
└───────────────────┘

SELECT arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapAndState(z))) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');
┌─arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapAndState(z)))─┐
[6,8,10]
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

groupBitmapOr

Calculations the OR of a bitmap column, return cardinality of type UInt64, if add suffix -State, then return bitmap object. This is equivalent to groupBitmapMerge .

Syntax

groupBitmapOr(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt*) type.

Returned value

  • Value of the UInt64 type.

Example


DROP TABLE IF EXISTS bitmap_column_expr_test2;
CREATE TABLE bitmap_column_expr_test2(tag_id String,z AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt32)) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY tag_id;

INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag1', bitmapBuild(cast([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag2', bitmapBuild(cast([6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag3', bitmapBuild(cast([2,4,6,8,10,12] as Array(UInt32))));

SELECT groupBitmapOr(z) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');

┌─groupBitmapOr(z)─┐
15
└──────────────────┘

SELECT arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapOrState(z))) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');
┌─arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapOrState(z)))─┐
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

groupBitmapXor

Calculations the XOR of a bitmap column, return cardinality of type UInt64, if add suffix -State, then return bitmap object.

Syntax

groupBitmapOr(expr)

Arguments

  • expr – An expression that results in AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt*) type.

Returned value

  • Value of the UInt64 type.

Example


DROP TABLE IF EXISTS bitmap_column_expr_test2;
CREATE TABLE bitmap_column_expr_test2(tag_id String, z AggregateFunction(groupBitmap, UInt32)) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY tag_id;


INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag1', bitmapBuild(cast([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag2', bitmapBuild(cast([6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] as Array(UInt32))));
INSERT INTO bitmap_column_expr_test2 VALUES ('tag3', bitmapBuild(cast([2,4,6,8,10,12] as Array(UInt32))));

SELECT groupBitmapXor(z) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');
┌─groupBitmapXor(z)─┐
10
└───────────────────┘

SELECT arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapXorState(z))) FROM bitmap_column_expr_test2 WHERE like(tag_id, 'tag%');

┌─arraySort(bitmapToArray(groupBitmapXorState(z)))─┐
[1,3,5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15]
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

groupUniqArray

Creates an array from different argument values. Memory consumption is the same as for the uniqExact function.

The second version (with the max_size parameter) limits the size of the resulting array to max_size elements.

Syntax

groupUniqArray(x)
groupUniqArray(max_size)(x)

Arguments

  • x — input values.

Returned value

  • array of values. Type is Array.

Example

select groupUniqArray(number) from numbers(10);
┌─groupUniqArray(number)─────────┐
│ [0, 8, 3, 9, 7, 2, 1, 6, 4, 5] │
└────────────────────────────────┘
select groupUniqArray(5)(number) from numbers(10);
┌─groupArray(5)(number)─┐
│ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] │
└───────────────────────┘

histogram

Calculates an adaptive histogram. It does not guarantee precise results.

The functions uses A Streaming Parallel Decision Tree Algorithm . The borders of histogram bins are adjusted as new data enters a function. In common case, the widths of bins are not equal.

Syntax

histogram(number_of_bins)(values)

Arguments

  • number_of_bins — Upper limit for the number of bins in the histogram. The function automatically calculates the number of bins. It tries to reach the specified number of bins, but if it fails, it uses fewer bins.
  • values — Expression resulting in input values.

Returned values

  • Array of Tuples of the following format:
[(lower_1, upper_1, height_1), ... (lower_N, upper_N, height_N)]

- `lower` — Lower bound of the bin.
- `upper` — Upper bound of the bin.
- `height` — Calculated height of the bin.

Example

SELECT histogram(5)(number + 1) FROM numbers(20);
┌─histogram(5)(plus(number, 1))───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [(1,4.5,4),(4.5,8.5,4),(8.5,12.75,4.125),(12.75,17,4.625),(17,20,3.25)] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

You can visualize a histogram with the bar function, for example:


WITH histogram(5)(rand() % 100) AS hist
SELECT
arrayJoin(hist).3 AS height,
bar(height, 0, 6, 5) AS bar
FROM numbers(20);


┌─height─┬─bar───┐

│ 2.125 │ █▋ │

│ 3.25 │ ██▌ │

│ 5.625 │ ████▏ │

│ 5.625 │ ████▏ │

│ 3.375 │ ██▌ │

└────────┴───────┘

In this case, you should remember that you do not know the histogram bin borders.

max

Aggregate function that calculates the maximum across a group of values.

Syntax

max(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • maximum value. Type is same as values

Example

SELECT max(number) FROM numbers(20);
┌─max(number)─┐
│ 19 │
└─────────────┘

If you need non-aggregate function to choose a maximum of two values, see greatest :

SELECT greatest(a, b) FROM table;

median

The median* functions are the aliases for the corresponding quantile* functions. They calculate median of a numeric data sample.

Functions:

  • median — Alias for quantile.
  • medianDeterministic — Alias for quantileDeterministic.
  • medianExact — Alias for quantileExact.
  • medianExactWeighted — Alias for quantileExactWeighted.
  • medianTiming — Alias for quantileTiming.
  • medianTimingWeighted — Alias for quantileTimingWeighted.
  • medianTDigest — Alias for quantileTDigest.
  • medianTDigestWeighted — Alias for quantileTDigestWeighted.
  • medianBFloat16 — Alias for quantileBFloat16.

medianDeterministic

Alias for quantileDeterministic.

medianExact

Alias for quantileExact.

medianExactWeighted

Alias for quantileExactWeighted.

medianTDigest

Alias for quantileTDigest.

medianTDigestWeighted

Alias for quantileTDigestWeighted.

medianTiming

Alias for quantileTiming.

medianTimingWeighted

Alias for quantileTimingWeighted.

quantile

Computes an approximate quantile of a numeric data sequence.

This function applies reservoir sampling with a reservoir size up to 8192 and a random number generator for sampling. The result is non-deterministic. To get an exact quantile, use the quantileExact function.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantile(level)(expr)

Alias: median .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric, Date, or DateTime.

Returned value

  • Approximate quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

SELECT quantile(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─quantile(number)─┐
│ 4.5e+00 │
└──────────────────┘

quantileDeterministic

Computes an approximate quantile of a numeric data sequence.

This function applies reservoir sampling with a reservoir size up to 8192 and deterministic algorithm of sampling. The result is deterministic. To get an exact quantile, use the quantileExact function.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileDeterministic(level)(expr, determinator)

Alias: medianDeterministic .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric data types, Date or DateTime.
  • determinator — Number whose hash is used instead of a random number generator in the reservoir sampling algorithm to make the result of sampling deterministic. As a determinator you can use any deterministic positive number, for example, a user id or an event id. If the same determinator value occures too often, the function works incorrectly.

Returned value

  • Approximate quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

SELECT quantileDeterministic(number, 1) FROM numbers(10);
┌─quantileDeterministic(number, 1)─┐
│ 4.5e+00 │
└──────────────────────────────────┘

quantileExact

Exactly computes the quantile of a numeric data sequence.

To get exact value, all the passed values are combined into an array, which is then partially sorted. Therefore, the function consumes O(n) memory, where n is a number of values that were passed. However, for a small number of values, the function is very effective.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileExact(level)(expr)

Alias: medianExact .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric data types, Date or DateTime.

Returned value

  • Quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

SELECT quantileExact(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─quantileExact(number)─┐
│ 5 │
└───────────────────────┘

quantileExactWeighted

Exactly computes the quantile of a numeric data sequence, taking into account the weight of each element.

To get exact value, all the passed values are combined into an array, which is then partially sorted. Each value is counted with its weight, as if it is present weight times. A hash table is used in the algorithm. Because of this, if the passed values are frequently repeated, the function consumes less RAM than quantileExact. You can use this function instead of quantileExact and specify the weight 1.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileExactWeighted(level)(expr, weight)

Alias: medianExactWeighted .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric, Date or DateTime.
  • weight — Column with weights of sequence members. Weight is a number of value occurrences.

Returned value

  • Quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionQuantileExactWeighted (n UInt8, val UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY n;
INSERT INTO test.functionQuantileExactWeighted VALUES (0,3),(1,2),(2,1),(5,4);
SELECT quantileExactWeighted(n, val) FROM test.functionQuantileExactWeighted;
┌─quantileExactWeighted(n, val)─┐
│ 1 │
└───────────────────────────────┘

quantileTDigest

Computes an approximate quantile of a numeric data sequence using the t-digest algorithm.

Memory consumption is log(n) , where n is a number of values. The result depends on the order of running the query, and is nondeterministic.

The performance of the function is lower than performance of quantile or quantileTiming. In terms of the ratio of State size to precision, this function is much better than quantile .

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileTDigest(level)(expr)

Alias: medianTDigest .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric data types, Date or DateTime.

Returned value

  • Approximate quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

SELECT quantileTDigest(number) FROM numbers(10)
┌─quantileTDigest(number)─┐
│ 4.5e+00 │
└─────────────────────────┘

quantileTDigestWeighted

Computes an approximate quantile of a numeric data sequence using the t-digest algorithm. The function takes into account the weight of each sequence member. The maximum error is 1%. Memory consumption is log(n) , where n is a number of values.

The performance of the function is lower than the performance of quantile or quantileTiming. In terms of the ratio of State size to precision, this function is much better than quantile.

The result depends on the order of running the query and is nondeterministic.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

[block:callout] { "type": "info", "title": "Note", "body": "Using quantileTDigestWeighted is not recommended for tiny data sets and can lead to significat error. In this case, consider possibility of using quantileTDigest instead." } [/block] Syntax

quantileTDigestWeighted(level)(expr, weight)

Alias: medianTDigestWeighted .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric data types, Date or DateTime.
  • weight — Column with weights of sequence elements. Weight is a number of value occurrences.

Returned value

  • Approximate quantile of the specified level. Type:
  • Float64 for numeric data type input.
  • Date if input values have the Date type.
  • DateTime if input values have the DateTime type.

Example

SELECT quantileTDigestWeighted(number, 1) FROM numbers(10)
┌─quantileTDigestWeighted(number, 1)─┐
│ 4.5e+00 │
└────────────────────────────────────┘

quantileTiming

With the determined precision computes the quantile of a numeric data sequence.

The result is deterministic (it does not depend on the query processing order). The function is optimized for working with sequences which describe distributions like loading web pages times or backend response times.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileTiming(level)(expr)

Alias: medianTiming .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over a column values returning a Float* -type number.
    • If negative values are passed to the function, the behavior is undefined.
    • If the value is greater than 30,000 (a page loading time of more than 30 seconds), it is assumed to be 30,000.

Accuracy The calculation is accurate if:

  • Total number of values does not exceed 5670.
  • Total number of values exceeds 5670, but the page loading time is less than 1024ms.

Otherwise, the result of the calculation is rounded to the nearest multiple of 16 ms.

!!! note "Note" For calculating page loading time quantiles, this function is more effective and accurate than quantile.

Returned value

  • Quantile of the specified level. Type: Float32 .

!!! note "Note" If no values are passed to the function (when using quantileTimingIf ), NaN is returned. The purpose of this is to differentiate these cases from cases that result in zero. See ORDER BY clause for notes on sorting NaN values.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionQuantileTiming (response_time UInt32) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY response_time;
INSERT INTO test.functionQuantileTiming VALUES (72),(112),(126),(145),(104),(242),(313),(168),(108);
SELECT quantileTiming(response_time) FROM test.functionQuantileTiming;
┌─quantileTiming(response_time)─┐
│ 1.26e+02 │
└───────────────────────────────┘

quantileTimingWeighted

With the determined precision computes the quantile of a numeric data sequence according to the weight of each sequence member.

The result is deterministic (it does not depend on the query processing order). The function is optimized for working with sequences which describe distributions like loading web pages times or backend response times.

When using multiple quantile* functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the quantiles function.

Syntax

quantileTimingWeighted(level)(expr, weight)

Alias: medianTimingWeighted .

Arguments

  • level — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99] . Default value: 0.5. At level=0.5 the function calculates median .
  • expr — Expression over a column values returning a Float* -type number.
  • If negative values are passed to the function, the behavior is undefined.
  • If the value is greater than 30,000 (a page loading time of more than 30 seconds), it is assumed to be 30,000.
  • weight — Column with weights of sequence elements. Weight is a number of value occurrences.

Accuracy The calculation is accurate if:

  • Total number of values does not exceed 5670.
  • Total number of values exceeds 5670, but the page loading time is less than 1024ms.

Otherwise, the result of the calculation is rounded to the nearest multiple of 16 ms.

!!! note "Note" For calculating page loading time quantiles, this function is more effective and accurate than quantile.

Returned value

  • Quantile of the specified level. Type: Float32 .

!!! note "Note" If no values are passed to the function (when using quantileTimingIf ), NaN is returned. The purpose of this is to differentiate these cases from cases that result in zero. See ORDER BY clause for notes on sorting NaN values.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionQuantileTimingWeighted (response_time UInt32, weight UInt32) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY response_time;
INSERT INTO test.functionQuantileTimingWeighted VALUES (68,1),(104,2),(112,3),(126,2),(138,1),(162,1);
SELECT quantileTimingWeighted(response_time, weight) FROM test.functionQuantileTimingWeighted;
┌─quantileTimingWeighted(response_time, weight)─┐
│ 1.12e+02 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

quantiles

All the quantile functions also have corresponding quantiles functions: quantiles , quantilesDeterministic , quantilesTiming , quantilesTimingWeighted , quantilesExact , quantilesExactWeighted , quantilesTDigest , quantilesBFloat16 . These functions calculate all the quantiles of the listed levels in one pass, and return an array of the resulting values.

Syntax

quantiles(level1, level2,)(x)

Arguments

  • level1,level2... — Levels of quantiles. Each level is a constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99].

Returned value

  • A list of quantiles.

Example

SELECT quantiles(0.5,0.4)(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─quantiles(0.5, 0.4)(number)─┐
│ [4.5e+00, 3.6e+00] │
└─────────────────────────────┘

quantiles(0.5,0.4)(number) equivalent to quantile(0.5)(number) and quantile(0.4)(number).

quantilesTimingWeighted

Same as quantileTimingWeighted , but accept multiple parameters with quantile levels and return an Array filled with many values of that quantiles.

Syntax

quantileTimingWeighted(level1, level2,)(x)

Arguments

  • level1,level2... — Levels of quantiles. Each level is a constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a level value in the range of [0.01, 0.99].

Returned value

  • A list of quantiles.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionQuantilesTimingWeighted (response_time UInt32, weight UInt32) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY response_time;
INSERT INTO test.functionQuantilesTimingWeighted VALUES (68,1),(104,2),(112,3),(126,2),(138,1),(162,1);
SELECT quantilesTimingWeighted(0.5, 0.99)(response_time, weight) FROM test.functionQuantilesTimingWeighted;
┌─quantilesTimingWeighted(0.5, 0.99)(response_time, weight)─┐
│ [1.12e+02, 1.62e+02] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

sequenceCount

sequenceCount(pattern)(time, cond1, cond2, …)

Counts the number of event chains that matched the pattern. The function searches event chains that do not overlap. It starts to search for the next chain after the current chain is matched.

!!! warning "Warning" Events that occur at the same second may lay in the sequence in an undefined order affecting the result.

Syntax

sequenceCount(pattern)(timestamp, cond1, cond2, ...)

Arguments

  • pattern — Pattern string. See Pattern syntax.
  • timestamp — Column considered to contain time data. Typical data types are Date and DateTime . You can also use any of the supported UInt data types.
  • cond1 , cond2 — Conditions that describe the chain of events. Data type: UInt8 . You can pass up to 32 condition arguments. The function takes only the events described in these conditions into account. If the sequence contains data that isn’t described in a condition, the function skips them.

Returned values

  • Number of non-overlapping event chains that are matched. Type: UInt64 .

Example Count how many times the number 2 occurs after the number 1 with any amount of other numbers between them:

CREATE TABLE test.functionSequenceCount (time DateTime, number UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY time;
INSERT INTO test.functionSequenceCount VALUES (1,1),(2,3),(3,2),(4,1),(5,3),(6,2);
SELECT sequenceCount('(?1).*(?2)')(time, number = 1, number = 2) FROM test.functionSequenceCount;
┌─sequenceCount('(?1).*(?2)')(time, equals(number, 1), equals(number, 2))─┐
│ 2 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

sequenceMatch

sequenceMatch(pattern)(timestamp, cond1, cond2, …)

Checks whether the sequence contains an event chain that matches the pattern.

!!! warning "Warning" Events that occur at the same second may lay in the sequence in an undefined order affecting the result.

Syntax

sequenceMatch(pattern)(timestamp, cond1, cond2, ...)

Arguments

  • pattern — Pattern string. See Pattern syntax.
  • timestamp — Column considered to contain time data. Typical data types are Date and DateTime . You can also use any of the supported UInt data types.
  • cond1 , cond2 — Conditions that describe the chain of events. Data type: UInt8 . You can pass up to 32 condition arguments. The function takes only the events described in these conditions into account. If the sequence contains data that isn’t described in a condition, the function skips them.

Returned values

  • 1, if the pattern is matched.
  • 0, if the pattern isn’t matched. Type: UInt8 .

Pattern syntax

  • (?N) — Matches the condition argument at position N . Conditions are numbered in the [1, 32] range. For example, (?1) matches the argument passed to the cond1 parameter.
  • .* — Matches any number of events. You do not need conditional arguments to match this element of the pattern.
  • (?t operator value) — Sets the time in seconds that should separate two events. For example, pattern (?1)(?t>1800)(?2) matches events that occur more than 1800 seconds from each other. An arbitrary number of any events can lay between these events. You can use the >= , > , < , <= , == operators.

Examples Consider data in the t table:


┌─time─┬─number─┐

│ 1 │ 1 │

│ 2 │ 3 │

│ 3 │ 2 │

└──────┴────────┘

Perform the query:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionSequenceMatch (time DateTime, number UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY time;
INSERT INTO test.functionSequenceMatch VALUES (1,1),(2,3),(3,2);
SELECT sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, number = 1, number = 2) FROM test.functionSequenceMatch;
┌─sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, equals(number, 1), equals(number, 2))─┐
│ 1 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The function found the event chain where number 2 follows number 1. It skipped number 3 between them, because the number is not described as an event. If we want to take this number into account when searching for the event chain given in the example, we should make a condition for it.

SELECT sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, number = 1, number = 2, number = 3) FROM test.functionSequenceMatch;
┌─sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, equals(number, 1), equals(number, 2), equals(number, 3))─┐
│ 0 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

In this case, the function couldn’t find the event chain matching the pattern, because the event for number 3 occured between 1 and 2. If in the same case we checked the condition for number 4, the sequence would match the pattern.

SELECT sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, number = 1, number = 2, number = 4) FROM test.functionSequenceMatch;
┌─sequenceMatch('(?1)(?2)')(time, equals(number, 1), equals(number, 2), equals(number, 4))─┐
│ 1 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

stddevPop

The result is equal to the square root of varPop.

This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the stddevPopStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

stddevPop(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • stddevPop of values. Returns Float64.

Example

SELECT stddevPop(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─stddevPop(number)──────┐
│ 2.8722813232690143e+00 │
└────────────────────────┘

stddevSamp

The result is equal to the square root of varSamp.

This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the stddevSampStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

stddevSamp(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • stddevSamp of values. Returns Float64.

Example

SELECT stddevSamp(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─stddevSamp(number)─────┐
│ 3.0276503540974917e+00 │
└────────────────────────┘

STDDEV_POP

Alias to stddevPop.

STDDEV_SAMP

Alias to stddevSamp.

sum

Calculates the sum. Only works for numbers.

Syntax

sum(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • sum of values. Type is same as values

Example

SELECT sum(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─sum(number)─┐
│ 45 │
└─────────────┘

sum from 0 to 9.

sumKahan

Calculates the sum of the numbers with Kahan compensated summation algorithm Slower than sum function.

The compensation works only for Float types.

Syntax

sumKahan(x)

Arguments

  • x — Input value, must be Integer, Float, or Decimal.

Returned value

  • the sum of numbers, with type Integer, Float, or Decimal depends on type of input arguments

Example

SELECT sum(0.1), sumKahan(0.1) FROM numbers(10);
┌─sum(0.1)──────────────┬─sumKahan(0.1)─┐
│ 9.999999999999999e-01 │ 1e+00 │
└───────────────────────┴───────────────┘

sumMap

Totals the value array according to the keys specified in the key array. The number of elements in key and value must be the same for each row that is totaled.

Syntax

sumMap(key, value)

Arguments

  • key — Input keys. Type Array
  • value — Input values. Type Array

Returned value

  • Returns a tuple of two arrays: keys in sorted order, and values summed for the corresponding keys.

Example

CREATE TABLE test.functionSumMap(
date Date,
timeslot DateTime,
status UInt16,
requests UInt64
) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY date;

INSERT INTO test.functionSumMap VALUES
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 1,2),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 1,5),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 3,4),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:01:00', 5,6),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:01:00', 7,8);

SELECT timeslot, sumMap([status], [requests]) FROM test.functionSumMap GROUP BY timeslot;
┌─timeslot────────────┬─sumMap(array(status), array(requests))─┐
│ 2000-01-01 00:00:00 │ ([1, 3], [7, 4]) │
│ 2000-01-01 00:01:00 │ ([5, 7], [6, 8]) │
└─────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┘

sumMapFiltered

Same behavior as sumMap except that an array of keys is passed as a parameter. This can be especially useful when working with a high cardinality of keys.

Syntax

sumMapFiltered(keys_to_keep)(keys, values)

Arguments

  • keys_to_keep - Input keys_to_keep. Type Array
  • key — Input keys. Type Array
  • value — Input values. Type Array

Returned value

  • Returns a tuple of two arrays: keys in sorted order, and values summed for the corresponding keys.

Example

CREATE TABLE test.functionSumMapFiltered(
date Date,
timeslot DateTime,
status UInt16,
requests UInt64
) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY date;

INSERT INTO test.functionSumMapFiltered VALUES
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 1,2),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 1,5),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:00:00', 3,4),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:01:00', 5,6),
('2000-01-01', '2000-01-01 00:01:00', 7,8);

SELECT timeslot, sumMapFiltered([1])([status], [requests]) FROM test.functionSumMapFiltered GROUP BY timeslot;
┌─timeslot────────────┬─sumMapFiltered([1])(array(status), array(requests))─┐
│ 2000-01-01 00:00:00 │ ([1], [7]) │
│ 2000-01-01 00:01:00 │ ([], []) │
└─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

sumWithOverflow

Computes the sum of the numbers, using the same data type for the result as for the input parameters. If the sum exceeds the maximum value for this data type, it is calculated with overflow.

Only works for numbers.

Syntax

sumWithOverflow(values)

Arguments

  • values - Input Values.

Returned value

  • Sum of the numbers.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionSumWithOverflow (x UInt8) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY x;
INSERT INTO test.functionSumWithOverflow values (254),(254);
SELECT sum(x), sumWithOverflow(x) FROM test.functionSumWithOverflow;
┌─sum(x)─┬─sumWithOverflow(x)─┐
│ 508 │ 252 │
└────────┴────────────────────┘

topK

Returns an array of the approximately most frequent values in the specified column. The resulting array is sorted in descending order of approximate frequency of values (not by the values themselves).

Implements the Filtered Space-Saving algorithm for analyzing TopK, based on the reduce-and-combine algorithm from Parallel Space Saving .

This function does not provide a guaranteed result. In certain situations, errors might occur and it might return frequent values that aren’t the most frequent values.

We recommend using the N < 10 value; performance is reduced with large N values. Maximum value of N = 65536 .

Syntax

topK(N)(x)

Arguments

  • N – The number of elements to return. If the parameter is omitted, default value 10 is used.
  • x – The values to calculate frequency.

Example

SELECT topK(3)(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─topK(3)(number)─┐
│ [0, 1, 2] │
└─────────────────┘

topKWeighted

Returns an array of the approximately most frequent values in the specified column. The resulting array is sorted in descending order of approximate frequency of values (not by the values themselves). Additionally, the weight of the value is taken into account.

Syntax

topKWeighted(N)(x, weight)

Arguments

  • N — The number of elements to return.
  • x — The value.
  • weight — The weight. Every value is accounted weight times for frequency calculation. UInt64.

Returned value Returns an array of the values with maximum approximate sum of weights.

Example

SELECT topKWeighted(10)(number, number) FROM numbers(1000)
┌─topKWeighted(10)(number, number)──────────┐
│ [999,998,997,996,995,994,993,992,991,990] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

uniq

Calculates the approximate number of different values of the argument.

Syntax

uniq(x[, ...])

Arguments

  • The function takes a variable number of parameters. Parameters can be Tuple , Array , Date , DateTime , String , or numeric types.

Returned value

  • A UInt64 -type number.

Implementation details Function:

  • Calculates a hash for all parameters in the aggregate, then uses it in calculations.
  • Uses an adaptive sampling algorithm. For the calculation state, the function uses a sample of element hash values up to 65536.

This algorithm is very accurate and very efficient on the CPU. When the query contains several of these functions, using uniq is almost as fast as using other aggregate functions.This algorithm is very accurate and very efficient on the CPU. When the query contains several of these functions, using uniq is almost as fast as using other aggregate functions.

  • Provides the result deterministically (it does not depend on the query processing order).

We recommend using this function in almost all scenarios.

Example

SELECT uniq(number) FROM numbers(1000);

uniqCombined

Calculates the approximate number of different argument values. The uniqCombined function is a good choice for calculating the number of different values.

Syntax

uniqCombined(HLL_precision)(x[, ...])

Arguments

  • The function takes a variable number of parameters. Parameters can be Tuple , Array , Date , DateTime , String , or numeric types.
  • HLL_precision is the base-2 logarithm of the number of cells in HyperLogLog . Optional, you can use the function as uniqCombined(x[, ...]) . The default value for HLL_precision is 17, which is effectively 96 KiB of space (2^17 cells, 6 bits each).

Returned value

  • A number UInt64 -type number.

Implementation details Function:

  • Calculates a hash (64-bit hash for String and 32-bit otherwise) for all parameters in the aggregate, then uses it in calculations.
  • Uses a combination of three algorithms: array, hash table, and HyperLogLog with an error correction table.

For a small number of distinct elements, an array is used. When the set size is larger, a hash table is used. For a larger number of elements, HyperLogLog is used, which will occupy a fixed amount of memory.For a small number of distinct elements, an array is used. When the set size is larger, a hash table is used. For a larger number of elements, HyperLogLog is used, which will occupy a fixed amount of memory.

  • Provides the result deterministically (it does not depend on the query processing order).

Note

Since it uses 32-bit hash for non- String type, the result will have very high error for cardinalities significantly larger than UINT_MAX (error will raise quickly after a few tens of billions of distinct values), hence in this case you should use uniqCombined64

Compared to the uniq function, the uniqCombined :

  • Consumes several times less memory.
  • Calculates with several times higher accuracy.
  • Usually has slightly lower performance. In some scenarios, uniqCombined can perform better than uniq , for example, with distributed queries that transmit a large number of aggregation states over the network.

Example

SELECT uniqCombined(number) FROM numbers(1000);

uniqExact

Calculates the exact number of different argument values.

Use the uniqExact function if you absolutely need an exact result. Otherwise use the uniq function.

The uniqExact function uses more memory than uniq , because the size of the state has unbounded growth as the number of different values increases.

Syntax

uniqExact(x[, ...])

Arguments The function takes a variable number of parameters. Parameters can be Tuple , Array , Date , DateTime , String , or numeric types.

Returned value

  • A number UInt64 -type number.

Example

SELECT uniqExact(number) FROM numbers(1000);
┌─uniqExact(number)─┐
│ 1000 │
└───────────────────┘

uniqHLL12

Calculates the approximate number of different argument values, using the HyperLogLog algorithm.

Syntax

uniqHLL12(x[, ...])

Arguments The function takes a variable number of parameters. Parameters can be Tuple , Array , Date , DateTime , String , or numeric types.

Returned value

  • A UInt64 -type number.

Implementation details Function:

  • Calculates a hash for all parameters in the aggregate, then uses it in calculations.
  • Uses the HyperLogLog algorithm to approximate the number of different argument values. 2^12 5-bit cells are used. The size of the state is slightly more than 2.5 KB. The result is not very accurate (up to ~10% error) for small data sets (<10K elements). However, the result is fairly accurate for high-cardinality data sets (10K-100M), with a maximum error of ~1.6%. Starting from 100M, the estimation error increases, and the function will return very inaccurate results for data sets with extremely high cardinality (1B+ elements).
  • Provides the determinate result (it does not depend on the query processing order).

We do not recommend using this function. In most cases, use the uniq or uniqCombined function.

Example

SELECT uniqHLL12(number) FROM numbers(1000);

uniqUpTo

Calculates the number of different argument values if it is less than or equal to N. If the number of different argument values is greater than N, it returns N + 1.

Recommended for use with small Ns, up to 10. The maximum value of N is 100.

For the state of an aggregate function, it uses the amount of memory equal to 1 + N * the size of one value of bytes.

For strings, it stores a non-cryptographic hash of 8 bytes. That is, the calculation is approximated for strings.

The function also works for several arguments.

It works as fast as possible, except for cases when a large N value is used and the number of unique values is slightly less than N.

Syntax

uniqUpTo(N)(x)

Arguments

  • N The function takes a variable number of parameters. Parameters can be Tuple , Array , Date , DateTime , String , or numeric types.

Returned value

  • A UInt64 -type number.

Example

SELECT uniqUpTo(5)(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─uniqUpTo(5)(number)─┐
│ 6 │
└─────────────────────┘
SELECT uniqUpTo(5)(number) FROM numbers(4);
┌─uniqUpTo(5)(number)─┐
│ 4 │
└─────────────────────┘

varPop

Calculates the amount Σ((x - x̅)^2) / n , where n is the sample size and is the average value of x .

This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the varPopStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

varPop(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • varPop of values. Returns Float64.

Example

SELECT varPop(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─varPop(number)─┐
│ 8.25e+00 │
└────────────────┘

varSamp

Calculates the amount Σ((x - x̅)^2) / (n - 1) , where n is the sample size and is the average value of x .

It represents an unbiased estimate of the variance of a random variable if passed values form its sample.

This function uses a numerically unstable algorithm. If you need numerical stability in calculations, use the varSampStable function. It works slower but provides a lower computational error.

Syntax

varSamp(values)

Arguments

  • values — input values.

Returned values

  • varSamp of values. Returns Float64.
  • When n <= 1 , returns NaN .

Example

SELECT varSamp(number) FROM numbers(10);
┌─varSamp(number)───────┐
│ 9.166666666666666e+00 │
└───────────────────────┘
SELECT varSamp(number) FROM numbers(1);
┌─varSamp(number)─┐
│ NaN │
└─────────────────┘

VAR_POP

Alias to varPop.

VAR_SAMP

Alias to varSamp.