KYLIN-1186 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-1186> is not a
mature feature yet and it only supports integer
we don't yet have plans to support any other forms of precise distinct
count, as it is too expensive to pre-calculate

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Abhilash L L <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks ShaoFeng Shi,
>
> We might need for other data types as well
>
> date & string
>
>  (eg, distinct count of dates of certain activity)
>
> So in the rest call instead of hllc return type it should be bitmap for
> int,tinyint etc ?
>
> And we still send it as hllc for other data types ?
>
>
> Also in one of the comments, it said we cast long to int..  wont we be
> losing data due to truncation ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Abhilash
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:43 PM, ShaoFeng Shi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > is this matched your case?
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-1186
> >
> > 2016-01-28 17:42 GMT+08:00 Abhilash L L <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > +user ml
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Abhilash
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Abhilash L L <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >    Is there a way to ask Kylin to get exact distinct count ?  From
> what
> > > we
> > > > understand, we can choose between hllc(10) to hllc(16)
> > > >
> > > >    I understand that for every cuboid, you will need to go through
> the
> > > > whole data set again, but with the new cubing algo (2.x branch)
> should
> > be
> > > > simpler to add ?
> > > >
> > > >    If currently not present are there any plans to introduce this ?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Abhilash
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Shaofeng Shi
> >
>



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