Hello Xiangdong,

Yes. Let me elaborate a bit about the join requirement. Suppose I want to
do a join to print out values in root.demo.d1.m1 and root.demo.d2.m2 for a
common time range say 2019-12-11 00:00:00 to 2020-12-18 23:59:59. It should
print out the last two rows from your table.

In SQL, when we do a join, there are two different tables and then we do a
join based on some common column => root.demo.d1 is one table (has an "m1"
column) and another table root.demo.d2 (has an "m2" column). If I do a join
on d1 and d2 based on timestamp, it will return some rows containing m1 and
m2 where timestamps are the same.

I think the way to look at join queries in IoTDB is slightly different.
Here, we have a storage group (root.demo) with different time-series (d1.m1
and d2.m2). For each insert in a storage group, I think IoTDB automatically
joins these time-series on timestamp since it assumes null values for other
time-series that were not given a value during insert.  For example, if I
do an "insert root.demo.d2(timestamp,m2) values (2021-08-03T00:00:00,
2021)", it will also append NULL value for root.demo.d1.m1 for this
timestamp.

Thus, to do a join within a storage group for *any number* of time-series
is straightforward. I think this is trivially done by just giving the time
range and time-series names => "select d1.m1, d2.m2 from root.demo where
timestamp >= 2019-19-11T00:00:00".

Next, I thought about a similar query across storage groups, say root.demo1
and root.demo2. Here as well, I can run a similar query, but only start
from a higher level in the storage hierarchy, i.e. "root" alone. "select
demo1.m1, demo2.m2 from root where timestamp >= 2019-19-11T00:00:00".

Q1. Is my interpretation of join on timestamp correct for IoTDB?

Q2. Is there a way to omit rows that return one or more null column values
in the result?

PS: Sorry for the long email. I am exploring IoTDB for a research project
and just want to be clear in my understanding.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
dgargcs

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 14:12, Xiangdong Huang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dhruv,
>
> 1. Could you give me an example to describe what you want to query?
> e.g., there are two time series:
>
> +-----------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> |                         Time|root.demo.d1.m1|root.demo.d2.m2|
> +-----------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> |1970-01-01T08:00:00.001+08:00|            1.0|            2.0|
> |2019-12-11T10:00:00.000+08:00|            1.0|            NULL|
> |2020-12-18T11:45:14.519+08:00|            2.0|            2.0|
> +-----------------------------+---------------+---------------+
>
> or,
>
> What you want to query? (you can consider it as a table in MySQL, and just
> write the sqls you need in mysql.)
>
> 2. Ah, we are testing the performance of v0.12. maybe 2-3 weeks, I think.
>
> Best,
> -----------------------------------
> Xiangdong Huang
> School of Software, Tsinghua University
>
>  黄向东
> 清华大学 软件学院
>
>
> Dhruv Garg <[email protected]> 于2021年3月8日周一 下午4:11写道:
>
> > Hello Xiangdong,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > 1. I have the same use-case: I want to run a join query on two time
> > series but I think I am getting the syntax wrong.
> > I tried a few SQL-like join queries on IoTDB v0.11.2 and got the
> following
> > error:  "mismatched input 'JOIN' expecting {<EOF>, WHERE, ORDER, SLIMIT,
> > LIMIT, OFFSET, SOFFSET, FILL, GROUP, DISABLE, ALIGN, ',', '.'}"
> > Could you please refer me to some documentation or provide a simple
> example
> > join query for IoTDB?
> >
> > 2. I am also excited to try out the cluster version. Is there an
> > approximate timeline for v0.12 rollout?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > dgargcs
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 17:24, Xiangdong Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Dhruv,
> > >
> > > Welcome!
> > >
> > > 1. "join" for what requirements?
> > >
> > > IoTDB supports JOIN two time series ON their timestamp, i.e., time
> series
> > > alignment.
> > >
> > > 2. I think the cluster version is coming... In the coming v0.12, I
> think
> > a
> > > cluster version (that does
> > > not support dynamically scale-out) will be released, and the scale-out
> > > feature may be released in v0.13 or 0.14.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > -----------------------------------
> > > Xiangdong Huang
> > > School of Software, Tsinghua University
> > >
> > > Dhruv Garg <[email protected]> 于2021年3月2日周二 下午3:54写道:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am a researcher and a new user of IoTDB. I was excited when I saw
> the
> > > > performance numbers of IoTDB compared to InfluxDB, and I have set it
> up
> > > on
> > > > a few workstations and a Raspberry Pi device.
> > > >
> > > > I am becoming familiar with it and have a few queries:
> > > >
> > > >    1. Does IoTDB support Join queries? - I tried looking up some
> > > >    documentation on it, but could not find any. If the feature is
> > > > available,
> > > >    could you please provide a sample query or the predicates for join
> > > > queries?
> > > >    2. I also browsed through the IoTDB Jira issues page. I saw that
> the
> > > >    distributed / cluster version is being developed. Approximately
> how
> > > much
> > > >    time would it take to get a stable / working version of the
> cluster
> > > > IoTDB?
> > > >
> > > > It would be great if someone can respond to my queries. I would be
> > > > waiting for a reply. Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > dgargcs
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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