Functions

Kuiper has many built-in functions for performing calculations on data.

Aggregate Functions

Aggregate functions perform a calculation on a set of values and return a single value. Aggregate functions can be used as expressions only in the following:

  • The select list of a SELECT statement (either a subquery or an outer query).
  • A HAVING clause.
FunctionExampleDescription
avgavg(col1)The average of the values in a group. The null values will be ignored.
countcount()The number of items in a group. The null values will be ignored.
maxmax(col1)The maximum value in a group. The null values will be ignored.
minmin(col1)The minimum value in a group. The null values will be ignored.
sumsum(col1)The sum of all the values in a group. The null values will be ignored.
collectcollect(), collect(col1)Returns an array with all column or the whole record (when the parameter is *) values from the group.
deduplicatededuplicate(col, false)Returns the deduplicate results in the group, usually a window. The first argument is the column as the key to deduplicate; the second argument is whether to return all items or just the latest item which is not duplicate. If the latest item is a duplicate, the sink will receive an empty map. Set the sink property omitIfEmpty to the sink to not triggering the action.

Collect() Examples

  • Get an array of column a of the current window. Assume the column a is of int type, the result will be like: [{"r1":[32, 45]}]

    1. SELECT collect(a) as r1 FROM test GROUP BY TumblingWindow(ss, 10)
  • Get the whole array of the current window. The result will be like: [{"r1":{"a":32, "b":"hello"}, {"a":45, "b":"world"}}]

    1. SELECT collect(*) as r1 FROM test GROUP BY TumblingWindow(ss, 10)
  • Get the second element’s column ‘a’ value within the current window. The result will be like: [{"r1":32}]

    1. SELECT collect(*)[1]->a as r1 FROM test GROUP BY TumblingWindow(ss, 10)

Deduplicate() Examples

  • Get the whole array of the current window which is deduplicated by column a. The result will be like: [{"r1":{"a":32, "b":"hello"}, {"a":45, "b":"world"}}]

    1. SELECT deduplicate(a, true) as r1 FROM test GROUP BY TumblingWindow(ss, 10)
  • Get the column a value which is not duplicate during the last hour. The result will be like: [{"r1":32}], [{"r1":45}] and [{}] if a duplicate value arrives. Use the omitIfEmpty sink property to filter out those empty results.

    1. SELECT deduplicate(a, false)->a as r1 FROM demo GROUP BY SlidingWindow(hh, 1)

Mathematical Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
absabs(col1)The absolute value of a value
acosacos(col1)The inverse cosine of a number in radians
asinasin(col1)The inverse sine of a number in radians
atanatan(col1)The inverse tangent of a number in radians
atan2atan2(col1, col2)The angle, in radians, between the positive x-axis and the (x, y) point defined in the two arguments
bitandbitand(col1, col2)Performs a bitwise AND on the bit representations of the two Int(-converted) arguments
bitorbitor(col1, col2)Performs a bitwise OR of the bit representations of the two arguments
bitxorbitxor(col1, col2)Performs a bitwise XOR on the bit representations of the two Int(-converted) arguments
bitnotbitnot(col1)Performs a bitwise NOT on the bit representations of the Int(-converted) argument
ceilceil(col1)Round a value up to the nearest BIGINT value.
coscos(col1)Returns the cosine of a number in radians.
coshcosh(col1)Returns the hyperbolic cosine of a number in radians.
expexp(col1)Returns e raised to the Decimal argument.
lnln(col1)Returns the natural logarithm of the argument.
loglog(col1)Returns the base 10 logarithm of the argument.
modmod(col1, col2)Returns the remainder of the division of the first argument by the second argument.
powerpower(x, y)Pow returns x**y, the base-x exponential of y.
randrand()Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed double between 0.0 and 1.0.
roundround(col1)Round a value to the nearest BIGINT value.
signsign(col1)Returns the sign of the given number. When the sign of the argument is positive, 1 is returned. When the sign of the argument is negative, -1 is returned. If the argument is 0, 0 is returned.
sinsin(col1)Returns the sine of a number in radians.
sinhsinh(col1)Returns the hyperbolic sine of a number in radians.
sqrtsqrt(col1)Returns the square root of a number.
tantan(col1)Returns the tangent of a number in radians.
tanhtanh(col1)Returns the hyperbolic tangent of a number in radians.

String Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
concatconcat(col1…)Concatenates arrays or strings. This function accepts any number of arguments and returns a String or an Array
endswithendswith(col1, col2)Returns a Boolean indicating whether the first String argument ends with the second String argument.
format_timeformat_time(col1, format)Format a datetime to string. The ‘col1’ will be casted to datetime type if it is bigint, float or string type before formatting. Please check format patterns for how to compose the format.
indexofindexof(col1, col2)Returns the first index (0-based) of the second argument as a substring in the first argument.
lengthlength(col1)Returns the number of characters in the provided string.
lowerlower(col1)Returns the lowercase version of the given String.
lpadlpad(col1, 2)Returns the String argument, padded on the left side with the number of spaces specified by the second argument.
ltrimltrim(col1)Removes all leading whitespace (tabs and spaces) from the provided String.
numbytesnumbytes(col1)Returns the number of bytes in the UTF-8 encoding of the provided string.
regexp_matchesregexp_matches(col1, regex)Returns true if the string (first argument) contains a match for the regular expression.
regexp_replaceregexp_matches(col1, regex, str)Replaces all occurrences of the second argument (regular expression) in the first argument with the third argument.
regexp_substrregexp_substr(col1, regex)Finds the first match of the 2nd parameter (regex) in the first parameter.
rpadrpad(col1, 2)Returns the String argument, padded on the right side with the number of spaces specified by the second argument.
rtrimrtrim(col1)Removes all trailing whitespace (tabs and spaces) from the provided String.
substringsubstring(col1, start, end)returns the substring of the provided String from the provided Int index (0-based, inclusive) to the end of the String.
startswithstartswith(col1, str)Returns Boolean, whether the first string argument starts with the second string argument.
split_valuesplit_value(col1, str_splitter, index)Split the value of the 1st parameter with the 2nd parameter, and return the value of split array that indexed with the 3rd parameter.
split_value(“/test/device001/message”,”/“,0) AS a, the returned value of function is empty;
split_value(“/test/device001/message”,”/“,3) AS a, the returned value of function is message;
trimtrim(col1)Removes all leading and trailing whitespace (tabs and spaces) from the provided String.
upperupper(col1)Returns the uppercase version of the given String.

Format_time patterns

A pattern is used to create a format string. Patterns are based on a simple sequence of letters and symbols which is common in many languages like Java etc. The supported symbols in Kuiepr are

SymbolMeaningExample

/ G / era / G(AD) / / Y / year/ YYYY(2004), YY(04) / / M / month / M(1), MM(01), MMM(Jan), MMMM(January) / / d / day of month / d(2), dd(02) / / E / day of week / EEE(Mon), EEEE(Monday) / / H / hour in 24 hours format / HH(15) / / h / hour in 12 hours format / h(2), hh(03) / / a / AM or PM / a(PM) / / m / minute / m(4), mm(04) / / s / second / s(5), ss(05) / / S / fraction of second / S(.0), SS(.00), SSS(.000) / / z / time zone name / z(MST) / / Z / 4 digits time zone offset / Z(-0700) / / X / time zone offset / X(-07), XX(-0700), XXX(-07:00) /

Examples:

  • YYYY-MM-dd T HH:mm:ss -> 2006-01-02 T 15:04:05
  • YYYY/MM/dd HH:mm:ssSSS XXX -> 2006/01/02 15:04:05.000 -07:00

Conversion Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
castcast(col, “bigint”)Converts a value from one data type to another. The supported types includes: bigint, float, string, boolean and datetime.
chrchr(col1)Returns the ASCII character that corresponds to the given Int argument
encodeencode(col1, “base64”)Use the encode function to encode the payload, which potentially might be non-JSON data, into its string representation based on the encoding scheme. Currently, only “base64” econding type is supported.
trunctrunc(dec, int)Truncates the first argument to the number of Decimal places specified by the second argument. If the second argument is less than zero, it is set to zero. If the second argument is greater than 34, it is set to 34. Trailing zeroes are stripped from the result.

Cast to datetime

When casting to datetime type, the supported column type and casting rule are:

  1. If column is datatime type, just return the value.
  2. If column is bigint or float type, the number will be treated as the milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC and converted.
  3. If column is string, it will be parsed to datetime with the default format: "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00".
  4. Other types are not supported.

Hashing Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
md5md5(col1)Hashed value of the argument
sha1sha1(col1)Hashed value of the argument
sha256sha256(col1)Hashed value of the argument
sha384sha384(col1)Hashed value of the argument
sha512sha512(col1)Hashed value of the argument

JSON Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
json_path_existsjson_path_exists(col1, “$.name”)Checks whether JSON path returns any item for the specified JSON value. Return bool value.
json_path_queryjson_path_query(col1, “$.name”)Gets all items returned by JSON path for the specified JSON value.
json_path_query_firstjson_path_query_first(col1, “$.name”)Gets the first item returned by JSON path for the specified JSON value.

Please refer to json path functions for how to compose a json path.

Other Functions

FunctionExampleDescription
isNullisNull(col1)Returns true if the argument is the Null value.
cardinalitycardinality(col1)The number of members in the group. The null value is 0.
newuuidnewuuid()Returns a random 16-byte UUID.
tstamptstamp()Returns the current timestamp in milliseconds from 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970
mqttmqtt(topic)Returns the MQTT meta-data of specified key. The current supported keys
- topic: return the topic of message. If there are multiple stream source, then specify the source name in parameter. Such as mqtt(src1.topic)
- messageid: return the message id of message. If there are multiple stream source, then specify the source name in parameter. Such as mqtt(src2.messageid)
metameta(topic)Returns the meta-data of specified key. The key could be:
- a standalone key if there is only one source in the from clause, such as meta(device)
- A qualified key to specify the stream, such as meta(src1.device)
- A key with arrow for multi level meta data, such as meta(src1.reading->device->name) This assumes reading is a map structure meta data.