Over thanksgiving, I started working on MATCH_RECOGNIZE again. I wrote a
standalone class called Automaton that allows you to build patterns (basically
regular expressions, but sufficient for the PATTERN sub-clause of
MATCH_RECOGNIZE), and execute them in a unit test.
Would someone like to help me develop this? We have support for “*” (zero or
more repeats), “+” (1 or more repeats) and “{m,n}” (bounded repeats) but need
“|” (or) and several others. It should be fairly straightforward test-driven
development: add tests to AutomatonTest.java [1], then change Automaton,
AutomatonBuilder, Pattern or Matcher until they pass.
We also need lots of SQL tests. Could someone write queries against Oracle’s
“ticker” table and paste the queries and results into match.iq?
See CALCITE-1935 [2], and my branch [3].
I have cherry-picked commits from Zhiqiang He’s branch [4] into my branch, so
this will be a joint effort when it is finished.
Julian
[1]
https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/blob/1935-match-recognize/core/src/test/java/org/apache/calcite/runtime/AutomatonTest.java
<https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/blob/1935-match-recognize/core/src/test/java/org/apache/calcite/runtime/AutomatonTest.java>
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1935
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1935>
[3] https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/tree/1935-match-recognize/
<https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/tree/1935-match-recognize/>
[4] https://github.com/Zhiqiang-He/calcite/tree/calcite-1935-MR-Implementation3
<https://github.com/Zhiqiang-He/calcite/tree/calcite-1935-MR-Implementation3>
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Julian Feinauer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Sorry, this is an old mail which got sent accidentally again by my mail
> program.
> Please ignore this and excuse this.
>
> Julian
>
> Am 21.11.18, 16:34 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Julian,
>
> I decided to reply to this (old) email, because here some facts are noted.
> Funnily, Apache Flink released their MATCH_RECOGNIZE Implementation
> yesterday.
>
> So I recall that you and Zhigiang He did something on this.
> I would like to have such a feature in Calcite (as stated in the other
> mail) and could try to go into this a bit with a colleague of mine and give a
> bit of support on this topic (In fact, it sounds like fun to us…).
> Perhaps theres also the chance to learn something from Flinks
> implementation, as you already had some contacts with them, I think?
>
> Best
> Julian
>
> On 2018/07/23 17:53:57, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For quite a while we have had partial support for MATCH_RECOGNIZE. We
>> support it in the parser and validator, but there is no runtime
>> implementation. It’s a shame, because MATCH_RECOGNIZE is an incredibly
>> powerful SQL feature for both traditional SQL (it’s in Oracle 12c) and for
>> continuous query (aka complex event processing - CEP).>
>>
>> I figure it’s time to change that. My plan is to implement it incrementally,
>> getting simple queries working to start with, then allow people to add more
>> complex queries.>
>>
>> In a dev branch [1], I’ve added a method Enumerables.match[2]. The idea is
>> that if you supply an Enumerable of input data, a finite state machine to
>> figure out when a sequence of rows makes a match (represented by a
>> transition function: (state, row) -> state), and a function to convert a
>> matched set of rows to a set of output rows. The match method is fairly
>> straightforward, and I almost have it finished.>
>>
>> The complexity is in generating the finite state machine, emitter function,
>> and so forth.>
>>
>> Can someone help me with this task? If your idea of fun is implementing
>> database algorithms, this is about as much fun as it gets. You learned about
>> finite state machines in college - this is your chance to actually write
>> one!>
>>
>> This might be a good joint project with the Flink community. I know Flink
>> are thinking of implementing CEP, and the algorithm we write here could be
>> shared with Flink (for use via Flink SQL or via the Flink API).>
>>
>> Julian>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/commits/1935-match-recognize
>> <https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/commits/1935-match-recognize>>
>>
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/commit/4dfaf1bbee718aa6694a8ce67d829c32d04c7e87#diff-8a97a64204db631471c563df7551f408R73
>>
>> <https://github.com/julianhyde/calcite/commit/4dfaf1bbee718aa6694a8ce67d829c32d04c7e87#diff-8a97a64204db631471c563df7551f408R73>>
>
>
