Hi Sony,

Here is one article introducing aggregation group:
https://kyligence.gitbooks.io/kap-manual/content/en/model/cube/aggregation_group.en.html

2017-07-04 10:43 GMT+08:00 Sonny Heer <[email protected]>:

> Can you describe the relationship between when using a dimension in the
> WHERE clause vs GROUP BY and how to use each in AGG?
>
> e.g. in the example
> http://kylin.apache.org/blog/2016/02/18/new-aggregation-group/
>
> buyer_id is a high cardinality dim.  2 agg groups are created...one with
> all dims including buyer_id (where clause) and one has all dims without
> buyer_id.
>
> This is still confusing to me when expanding to a generalized use case.
>  e.g. say i have dims (A, B, C, D, E, F, G).   half of them i need to be
> able to do a group by and the other half simply filters.  How do these
> relate cardinality by usage (group by vs where)?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Li Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The approach sounds good to me and makes sense.
>>
>> > The cube build time is taking forever.
>>
>> Well, that depends more on your Hadoop env I guess. 6 dimensions are
>> small cubes indeed.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Sonny Heer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi users,
>>>
>>> I need some clarification on how to properly use aggregation groups.
>>>
>>> Assume I have report page 1 which has filters A, B, C, D.  When user is
>>> in page 2, these filters are passed along to (drilldown).  Page 2 has other
>>> filterable fields (1,2,3), but each is independently connected only to
>>> previous filtered options.  e.g.page2 fields won't need to be combined with
>>> another field in page 2.  ABCD with 1 but not ABCD 1 & 2.
>>>
>>> So what I did is created an aggregation group per field in page 2.  idea
>>> was so it wouldn't do a 2^n on ABCD123  but ABCD1, ABCD2, etc.  I'm not
>>> sure if this is correct way to handle.  The cube build time is taking
>>> forever.  Please advise...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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