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Aggregate functions operate on a set of values to compute a single result. Except for count, count_if, max_by, min_by and approx_distinct, all of these aggregate functions ignore null values and return null for no input rows or when all values are null. For example, sum returns null rather than zero and avg does not include null values in the count. The coalesce function can be used to convert null into zero.

Ordering during aggregation

Some aggregate functions such as array_agg produce different results depending on the order of input values. This ordering can be specified by writing an order by clause within the aggregate function:

Filtering during aggregation

The FILTER keyword can be used to remove rows from aggregation processing with a condition expressed using a WHERE clause. This is evaluated for each row before it is used in the aggregation and is supported for all aggregate functions.
A common and very useful example is to use FILTER to remove nulls from consideration when using array_agg
As another example, imagine you want to add a condition on the count for Iris flowers, modifying the following query:
If you just use a normal WHERE statement you lose information:
Using a filter you retain all information:

General aggregate functions

any_value

Returns an arbitrary non-null value x, if one exists. x can be any valid expression. This allows you to return values from columns that are not directly part of the aggregation, inluding expressions using these columns, in a query. For example, the following query returns the customer name from the name column, and returns the sum of all total prices as customer spend. The aggregation however uses the rows grouped by the customer identifier custkey a required, since only that column is guaranteed to be unique:

arbitrary

Returns an arbitrary non-null value of x, if one exists. Identical to any_value.

array_agg

Returns an array created from the input x elements.

avg

Returns the average (arithmetic mean) of all input values.
Returns the average interval length of all input values.

bool_and

Returns TRUE if every input value is TRUE, otherwise FALSE.

bool_or

Returns TRUE if any input value is TRUE, otherwise FALSE.

checksum

Returns an order-insensitive checksum of the given values.

count

Returns the number of input rows.
Returns the number of non-null input values.

count_if

Returns the number of TRUE input values. This function is equivalent to count(CASE WHEN x THEN 1 END).

every

This is an alias for bool_and.

geometric_mean

Returns the geometric mean of all input values.

listagg

Returns the concatenated input values, separated by the separator string. Synopsis:
If separator is not specified, the empty string will be used as separator. In its simplest form the function looks like:
and results in:
The overflow behaviour is by default to throw an error in case that the length of the output of the function exceeds 1048576 bytes:
There exists also the possibility to truncate the output WITH COUNT or WITHOUT COUNT of omitted non-null values in case that the length of the output of the function exceeds 1048576 bytes:
If not specified, the truncation filler string is by default '...'. This aggregation function can be also used in a scenario involving grouping:
results in:
This aggregation function supports filtering during aggregation for scenarios where the aggregation for the data not matching the filter condition still needs to show up in the output:
results in:
The current implementation of listagg function does not support window frames.

max

Returns the maximum value of all input values.
Returns n largest values of all input values of x.

max_by

Returns the value of x associated with the maximum value of y over all input values.
Returns n values of x associated with the n largest of all input values of y in descending order of y.

min

Returns the minimum value of all input values.
Returns n smallest values of all input values of x.

min_by

Returns the value of x associated with the minimum value of y over all input values.
Returns n values of x associated with the n smallest of all input values of y in ascending order of y.

sum

Returns the sum of all input values.

Bitwise aggregate functions

bitwise_and_agg

Returns the bitwise AND of all input values in 2’s complement representation.

bitwise_or_agg

Map aggregate functions

histogram

Returns a map containing the count of the number of times each input value occurs.

map_agg

Returns a map created from the input key / value pairs.

map_union

Returns the union of all the input maps. If a key is found in multiple input maps, that key’s value in the resulting map comes from an arbitrary input map. For example, take the following histogram function that creates multiple maps from the Iris dataset:
You can combine these maps using map_union:

multimap_agg

Returns a multimap created from the input key / value pairs. Each key can be associated with multiple values.

Approximate aggregate functions

approx_distinct

Returns the approximate number of distinct input values. This function provides an approximation of count(DISTINCT x). Zero is returned if all input values are null. This function should produce a standard error of 2.3%, which is the standard deviation of the (approximately normal) error distribution over all possible sets. It does not guarantee an upper bound on the error for any specific input set.
Returns the approximate number of distinct input values. This function provides an approximation of count(DISTINCT x). Zero is returned if all input values are null. This function should produce a standard error of no more than e, which is the standard deviation of the (approximately normal) error distribution over all possible sets. It does not guarantee an upper bound on the error for any specific input set. The current implementation of this function requires that e be in the range of [0.0040625, 0.26000].

approx_most_frequent

Computes the top frequent values up to buckets elements approximately. Approximate estimation of the function enables us to pick up the frequent values with less memory. Larger capacity improves the accuracy of underlying algorithm with sacrificing the memory capacity. The returned value is a map containing the top elements with corresponding estimated frequency. The error of the function depends on the permutation of the values and its cardinality. We can set the capacity same as the cardinality of the underlying data to achieve the least error. buckets and capacity must be bigint. value can be numeric or string type. The function uses the stream summary data structure proposed in the paper Efficient Computation of Frequent and Top-k Elements in Data Streams by A. Metwalley, D. Agrawl and A. Abbadi.

approx_percentile

Returns the approximate percentile for all input values of x at the given percentage. The value of percentage must be between zero and one and must be constant for all input rows.
Returns the approximate percentile for all input values of x at each of the specified percentages. Each element of the percentages array must be between zero and one, and the array must be constant for all input rows.
Returns the approximate weighed percentile for all input values of x using the per-item weight w at the percentage percentage. Weights must be greater or equal to 1. Integer-value weights can be thought of as a replication count for the value x in the percentile set. The value of percentage must be between zero and one and must be constant for all input rows.
Returns the approximate weighed percentile for all input values of x using the per-item weight w at each of the given percentages specified in the array. Weights must be greater or equal to 1. Integer-value weights can be thought of as a replication count for the value x in the percentile set. Each element of the percentages array must be between zero and one, and the array must be constant for all input rows.

approx_set

See HyperLogLog Functions.

merge

See HyperLogLog Functions.
See Quantile digest functions.

numeric_histogram

Computes an approximate histogram with up to buckets number of buckets for all values. This function is equivalent to the variant of numeric_histogram that takes a weight, with a per-item weight of 1.
Computes an approximate histogram with up to buckets number of buckets for all values with a per-item weight of weight. The algorithm is based loosely on:
buckets must be a bigint. value and weight must be numeric.

qdigest_agg

tdigest_agg

Statistical aggregate functions

corr

Returns correlation coefficient of input values.

covar_pop

Returns the population covariance of input values.

covar_samp

Returns the sample covariance of input values.

kurtosis

Returns the excess kurtosis of all input values. Unbiased estimate using the following expression:

regr_intercept

Returns linear regression intercept of input values. y is the dependent value. x is the independent value.

regr_slope

Returns linear regression slope of input values. y is the dependent value. x is the independent value.

skewness

Returns the Fisher’s moment coefficient of skewness of all input values.

stddev

This is an alias for stddev_samp.

stddev_pop

Returns the population standard deviation of all input values.

stddev_samp

Returns the sample standard deviation of all input values.

variance

This is an alias for var_samp.

var_pop

Returns the population variance of all input values.

var_samp

Returns the sample variance of all input values.

Lambda aggregate functions

reduce_agg

Reduces all input values into a single value. inputFunction will be invoked for each non-null input value. In addition to taking the input value, inputFunction takes the current state, initially initialState, and returns the new state. combineFunction will be invoked to combine two states into a new state. The final state is returned:
The state type must be a boolean, integer, floating-point, char, varchar or date/time/interval.