Get Tumbling Window Top-K using SQL

Posted by Lu Weizheng on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/Get-Tumbling-Window-Top-K-using-SQL-tp33236.html

Hi,

I find a question on StackOverflow(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49191326/flink-stream-sql-order-by) about how to get Top-K using Flink SQL, it was written by Fabian. It was backed in 2018.

The main idea is using a RANK to get the Top K of filed 'a'：

SELECT a, b, c 
FROM (
  SELECT 
    a, b, c, 
    RANK() OVER (ORDER BY a PARTITION BY CEIL(t TO MINUTE) BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) as rank 
  FROM yourTable)
WHERE rank <= 10

is there better way to get tumbling window Top-K item now?

And the wiki on dynamic table may need to update. https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.10/dev/table/streaming/dynamic_tables.html

In the above wiki, I don't know why the query has a field 'lastLogin'

SELECT user, RANK() OVER (ORDER BY lastLogin)
FROM (
  SELECT user, MAX(cTime) AS lastAction FROM clicks GROUP BY user
);

Thanks!