Apache Impala SQL Reference
Apache Impala SQL Overview
Schema objects
Impala aliases
Databases
Functions
Identifiers
Impala tables
Views
Data types
ARRAY complex type
BIGINT data type
BINARY data type
BOOLEAN data type
CHAR data type
DATE data type
DECIMAL data type
DOUBLE data type
FLOAT data type
INT data type
MAP complex type
REAL data type
SMALLINT data type
STRING data type
STRUCT complex type
TIMESTAMP data type
Customizing time zones
TINYINT data type
VARCHAR data type
Complex types
Querying arrays
Zipping unnest on arrays from views
Literals
Operators
Comments
SQL statements
ROLE statements in Impala integrated with Ranger
DDL statements
DML statements
ALTER DATABASE statement
ALTER TABLE statement
ALTER VIEW statement
COMMENT statement
COMPUTE STATS statement
CREATE DATABASE statement
CREATE FUNCTION statement
CREATE ROLE statement
CREATE TABLE statement
CREATE VIEW statement
DELETE statement
DESCRIBE statement
DROP DATABASE statement
DROP FUNCTION statement
DROP ROLE statement
DROP STATS statement
DROP TABLE statement
DROP VIEW statement
EXPLAIN statement
GRANT statement
GRANT ROLE statement
INSERT statement
INVALIDATE METADATA statement
LOAD DATA statement
REFRESH statement
REFRESH AUTHORIZATION statement
REFRESH FUNCTIONS statement
REVOKE statement
REVOKE ROLE statement
SELECT statement
Joins in Impala SELECT statements
ORDER BY clause
GROUP BY clause
HAVING clause
LIMIT clause
OFFSET clause
UNION clause
UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT clauses
Subqueries in Impala SELECT statements
TABLESAMPLE clause
WITH clause
DISTINCT operator
SET statement
SHOW statement
SHOW ROLES statement
SHOW CURRENT ROLES statement
SHOW ROLE GRANT GROUP statement
SHUTDOWN statement
TRUNCATE TABLE statement
UPDATE statement
UPSERT statement
USE statement
VALUES statement
Optimizer hints
Query options
Virtual column
Built-in functions
Mathematical functions
Bit functions
Conversion functions
Date and time functions
Conditional functions
Impala string functions
Miscellaneous functions
Aggregate functions
APPX_MEDIAN function
AVG function
COUNT function
GROUPING() and GROUPING_ID() functions
GROUP_CONCAT function
MAX function
MIN function
NDV function
STDDEV, STDDEV_SAMP, STDDEV_POP functions
SUM function
VARIANCE, VARIANCE_SAMP, VARIANCE_POP, VAR_SAMP, VAR_POP functions
Analytic functions
OVER
WINDOW
AVG
COUNT
CUME_DIST
DENSE_RANK
FIRST_VALUE
LAG
LAST_VALUE
LEAD
MAX
MIN
NTILE
PERCENT_RANK
RANK
ROW_NUMBER
SUM
Impala hash functions
Creating an Impala user-defined function
UDF concepts
Runtime environment for UDFs
Installing the UDF development package
Writing UDFs
Writing user-defined aggregate functions (UDAFs)
Building and deploying UDFs
Performance considerations for UDFs
Examples of creating and using UDFs
Security considerations for UDFs
Limitations and restrictions for Impala UDFs
Transactions
Multi-row transactions
Impala reserved words
Impala SQL and Hive SQL
SQL migration to Impala
UTF-8 Support