Time Series Aggregate Functions | Teradata Vantage - Time Series Aggregate Functions - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Time Series Tables and Operations

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-28
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

A set of aggregate functions is provided to support time series data (optionally stored in Primary Time Index (PTI) tables). Additionally, some traditional functions support time series as well. To operate on time series data, both time series-specific functions and traditional functions are invoked in a GROUP BY TIME clause.

Parallel and Single Threaded Aggregate Functions

The aggregate functions are either fully parallel (FP) aggregates or single-threaded (ST) aggregates, depending on how they are evaluated. FP aggregates do not require the entire set of data to be present in order to compute the result. Rather, the result is computed by evaluating the aggregation on small subsets of the data in parallel and then computing a final aggregation of the intermediate results. ST aggregates require the entire set of data to be present in order to compute the result.

You can use the following aggregate functions on time series data in PTI tables by using the GROUP BY TIME clause and in non-PTI tables by using the GROUP BY TIME clause with the USING TIMECODE option.
  • AVERAGE
  • COUNT
  • KURTOSIS
  • MAXIMUM
  • MINIMUM
  • RANK (ANSI)
  • SKEW
  • STANDARD DEVIATION OF A POPULATION (STDDEV_POP)
  • STANDARD DEVIATION OF A SAMPLE (STDDEV_SAMP)
  • SUM
  • VARIANCE OF A POPULATION (VAR_POP)
  • VARIANCE OF A SAMPLE (VAR_SAMP)