QUANTILE_PERCENT

Description

The QUANTILE_PERCENT function is used to calculate the quantile value for a given percentage. It takes two parameters: a quantile_state column and a constant floating-point number representing the percentage. The function returns a floating-point number that represents the quantile value at the given percentage position.

Syntax

QUANTILE_PERCENT(<quantile_state>, <percent>)

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`<quantile_state>`	The target column.
`<percent>`	Target percent.

Return value

A Double type to represent quantile.

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ${tableName_21} (
         `dt` int(11) NULL COMMENT "",
         `id` int(11) NULL COMMENT "",
         `price` quantile_state QUANTILE_UNION NOT NULL COMMENT ""
        ) ENGINE=OLAP
        AGGREGATE KEY(`dt`, `id`)
        COMMENT "OLAP"
        DISTRIBUTED BY HASH(`dt`) BUCKETS 1
        PROPERTIES ("replication_num" = "1");
 
INSERT INTO quantile_state_agg_test VALUES(20220201,0, to_quantile_state(1, 2048));
 
INSERT INTO quantile_state_agg_test VALUES(20220201,1, to_quantile_state(-1, 2048)),
            (20220201,1, to_quantile_state(0, 2048)),(20220201,1, to_quantile_state(1, 2048)),
            (20220201,1, to_quantile_state(2, 2048)),(20220201,1, to_quantile_state(3, 2048));
 
SELECT dt, id, quantile_percent(quantile_union(price), 0) FROM quantile_state_agg_test GROUP BY dt, id ORDER BY dt, id
--------------
 
+----------+------+--------------------------------------------+
| dt       | id   | quantile_percent(quantile_union(price), 0) |
+----------+------+--------------------------------------------+
| 20220201 |    0 |                                          1 |
| 20220201 |    1 |                                         -1 |
+----------+------+--------------------------------------------+

G QUANTILE_STATE_EMPTY