I'm looking at some windowing functions (starting with rank functions like row_number, rank, and dense_rank) right now, not sure if those count as analytic functions for this discussion or not...
Regards, Matt Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2014, at 2:28 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > Uli, > > Which analytics functions do you mean? > > Does this impression of high priority mean that you are willing to work on > these analytics functions? > > Michael is offering to implement these functions for his own edification. > That is a great thing. Could you provide some guidance about which > functions you think would be more useful with some examples of why you > think so? > > > > > > >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Uli Bethke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My personal opinion is that analytic functions should take a much higher >> priority. No analytics database engine can live without these. In my >> opinion anything that you can do with ROLLUP/CUBE you can do with analytic >> functions while the opposite is not true. >> >> Uli >> >> >>> On 13/09/2014 18:57, Michael Johnson wrote: >>> >>> For an advanced databases class project, I'm looking at adding CUBE and >>> ROLLUP operators to Drill. (I'll be working up to that by trying out some >>> smaller changes first to get a better understanding of Drill's code.) >>> >>> Does this sound like a feature that you might want to incorporate into >>> Drill? Any other thoughts about this idea? >>> >>> Michael >>
