--windows functions are really powerful and are somewhat like a group by - except they don't roll everything up into 1 row when grouping. --windows functions allow us to look at a partition or a group ...

This is a performance testing framework for Spark SQL in Apache Spark 2.2+. The framework contains twelve benchmarks that can be executed in local mode. They are organized into three classes and ...

Abstract: The iceberg cubing problem is to compute the multidimensional group-by partitions that satisfy given aggregation constraints. Pruning unproductive computation for iceberg cubing when ...

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