anyHeavy

Introduced in: v1.1.0

Selects a frequently occurring value using the heavy hitters algorithm. If there is a value that occurs more than in half the cases in each of the query’s execution threads, this value is returned. Normally, the result is nondeterministic.

Syntax

anyHeavy(column)

Arguments

column — The column name. String

Returned value

Returns a frequently occurring value. The result is nondeterministic. Any

Examples

Usage example

CREATE TABLE ontime (AirlineID UInt32) ENGINE = Memory;

-- Three quarters of the flights belong to one airline, so it occurs in more than half of the
-- rows seen by every thread and the result is the same on every run.
INSERT INTO ontime SELECT if(number % 4 = 0, 19393, 19690) FROM numbers(1000);

SELECT anyHeavy(AirlineID) AS res
FROM ontime;

┌───res─┐
│ 19690 │
└───────┘