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 <p>If you are a developer simply looking for a snapshot of the latest development version of AsterixDB to test out your application that is based on top of AsterixDB, snapshots from the latest successful push to our master branch are available below. These are non ASF-release, automatic builds.</p>
 
 <h3 id="server-package">Server Package</h3>
-<p><a class="btn btn-md btn-warning" href="https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-integration-tests/lastSuccessfulBuild/org.apache.asterix$asterix-server/artifact/org.apache.asterix/asterix-server/0.9.5-SNAPSHOT/apache-asterixdb-0.9.5-SNAPSHOT.zip" role="button">Download AsterixDB 0.9.5-SNAPSHOT <i class="fa fa-download fa-lg"></i> </a></p>
+<p><a class="btn btn-md btn-warning" href="https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-integration-tests/lastSuccessfulBuild/org.apache.asterix$asterix-server/artifact/org.apache.asterix/asterix-server/0.9.5-SNAPSHOT/asterix-server-0.9.5-SNAPSHOT-binary-assembly.zip" role="button">Download AsterixDB 0.9.5-SNAPSHOT <i class="fa fa-download fa-lg"></i> </a></p>
 
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+      <li class="nav-header">Get Started - Installation</li>
+    <li><a href="ncservice.html" title="Option 1: using NCService"><span class="none"></span>Option 1: using NCService</a></li>
+    <li class="active"><a href="#"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using Ansible</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aws.html" title="Option 3: using Amazon Web Services"><span class="none"></span>Option 3: using Amazon Web Services</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">AsterixDB Primer</li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/primer-sqlpp.html" title="Using SQL++"><span class="none"></span>Using SQL++</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Data Model</li>
+    <li><a href="datamodel.html" title="The Asterix Data Model"><span class="none"></span>The Asterix Data Model</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="aql/externaldata.html" title="Accessing External Data"><span class="none"></span>Accessing External Data</a></li>
+    <li><a href="feeds.html" title="Data Ingestion with Feeds"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
+    <li><a href="udf.html" title="User Defined Functions"><span class="none"></span>User Defined Functions</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
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+<h1>Installation using Ansible</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="atoc" id="#toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></li>
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+<h2><a name="Introduction" id="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
+<p>This installation option provides several wrapped <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.ansible.com/">Ansible</a>-based scripts to deploy, start, stop, and erase an AsterixDB instance on a multi-node cluster without requiring users to interact with each individual node in the cluster.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Prerequisites" id="Prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Supported operating systems: <b>Linux</b> and <b>MacOS</b></p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Install pip on your client machine:</p>
+<p>CentOS</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ sudo yum install python-pip
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Ubuntu</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>macOS</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ brew install pip
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Install Ansible, boto, and boto3 on your client machine:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ pip install ansible
+ $ pip install boto
+ $ pip install boto3
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that you might need <tt>sudo</tt> depending on your system configuration.</p>
+<p><b>Make sure that the version of Ansible is no less than 2.2.1.0</b>:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ ansible --version
+ ansible 2.2.1.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Download the AsterixDB distribution package, unzip it, and navigate to <tt>opt/ansible/</tt></p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ cd opt/ansible
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following files and directories are in the directory <tt>opt/ansible</tt>:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> README  bin  conf  yaml
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><tt>bin</tt> contains scripts that deploy, start, stop and erase a multi-node AsterixDB cluster, according to the configuration specified in files under <tt>conf</tt>, and <tt>yaml</tt> contains internal Ansible scripts that the shell scripts in <tt>bin</tt> use.</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Cluster_Configuration"></a><a name="config" id="config">Cluster Configuration</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p><b>Nodes and account</b>. Edit the inventory file <tt>conf/inventory</tt> when necessary. You mostly only need to specify the node DNS names (or IPs) for the cluster controller, i.e., the master node, in the <b>[cc]</b> section, and node controllers, i.e., slave nodes, in the <b>[ncs]</b> section. The following example configures a cluster with two slave nodes (172.0.1.11 and 172.0.1.12) and one master node (172.0.1.10).</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> [cc]
+ 172.0.1.10
+
+ [ncs]
+ 172.0.1.11
+ 172.0.1.12
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><b>Configure passwordless ssh from your current client that runs the scripts to all nodes listed in <tt>conf/inventory</tt> as well as <tt>localhost</tt>.</b> If the ssh user account for target machines is different from your current username, please uncomment and edit the following two lines:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> ;[all:vars]
+ ;ansible_ssh_user=&lt;fill with your ssh account username&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>If you want to specify advanced Ansible builtin variables, please refer to the <a class="externalLink" href="http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html">Ansible documentation</a>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><b>Remote working directories</b>. Edit <tt>conf/instance_settings.yml</tt> to change the remote binary directory (the variable &#x201c;binarydir&#x201d;) when necessary. By default, the binary directory will be under the home directory (as the value of Ansible builtin variable ansible_env.HOME) of the ssh user account on each node.</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Cluster_Lifecycle_Management"></a><a name="lifecycle" id="lifecycle">Cluster Lifecycle Management</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Deploy the binary to all nodes:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ bin/deploy.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Every time before starting the AsterixDB cluster, you can edit the instance configuration file <tt>conf/instance/cc.conf</tt>, except that IP addresses/DNS names are generated and cannot be changed. All available parameters and their usage can be found <a href="ncservice.html#Parameters">here</a>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Launch your AsterixDB cluster:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ bin/start.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Now you can use the multi-node AsterixDB cluster by opening the master node listed in <tt>conf/inventory</tt> at port <tt>19001</tt> (which can be customized in <tt>conf/instance/cc.conf</tt>) in your browser.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>If you want to stop the the multi-node AsterixDB cluster, run the following script:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ bin/stop.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>If you want to remove the binary on all nodes, run the following script:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ bin/erase.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr/>
+    <footer>
+      <div class="container-fluid">
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-    <li><a href="sqlpp/primer-sqlpp.html" title="Option 1: using SQL++"><span class="none"></span>Option 1: using SQL++</a></li>
-    <li><a href="aql/primer.html" title="Option 2: using AQL"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using AQL</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/primer-sqlpp.html" title="Using SQL++"><span class="none"></span>Using SQL++</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="feeds/tutorial.html" title="Support for Data Ingestion"><span class="none"></span>Support for Data Ingestion</a></li>
+    <li><a href="feeds.html" title="Data Ingestion with Feeds"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="../ansible.html" title="Option 2: using Ansible"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using Ansible</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../aws.html" title="Option 3: using Amazon Web Services"><span class="none"></span>Option 3: using Amazon Web Services</a></li>
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+      <li class="nav-header">Data Model</li>
+    <li><a href="../datamodel.html" title="The Asterix Data Model"><span class="none"></span>The Asterix Data Model</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Queries</li>
+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/manual.html" title="The SQL++ Query Language"><span class="none"></span>The SQL++ Query Language</a></li>
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+<h1>Builtin Functions</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="toc" id="toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#NumericFunctions">Numeric Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#StringFunctions">String Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#BinaryFunctions">Binary Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SpatialFunctions">Spatial Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SimilarityFunctions">Similarity Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TokenizingFunctions">Tokenizing Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TemporalFunctions">Temporal Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ObjectFunctions">Object Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#AggregateFunctions">Aggregate Functions (Array Functions)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ComparisonFunctions">Comparison Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TypeFunctions">Type Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ConditionalFunctions">Conditional Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#MiscFunctions">Miscellaneous Functions</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>The system provides various classes of functions to support operations on numeric, string, spatial, and temporal data. This document explains how to use these functions.</p><!--
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+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Numeric_Functions"></a><a name="NumericFunctions" id="NumericFunctions">Numeric Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="abs"></a>abs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">abs(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the absolute value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The absolute value of the argument with the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: abs(2013), &quot;v2&quot;: abs(-4036), &quot;v3&quot;: abs(0), &quot;v4&quot;: abs(float(&quot;-2013.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: abs(double(&quot;-2013.593823748327284&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: 4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 2013.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 2013.5938237483274 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="acos"></a>acos</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">acos(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc cosine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc cosine in radians for the argument, if the argument is in the range of -1 (inclusive) to 1 (inclusive),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>&#x201c;NaN&#x201d; for other legitimate numeric values.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: acos(1), &quot;v2&quot;: acos(2), &quot;v3&quot;: acos(0), &quot;v4&quot;: acos(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: acos(double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.5707963267948966, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.0471975511965979, &quot;v5&quot;: 2.0943951023931957 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="asin"></a>asin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">asin(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc sine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc sin in radians for the argument, if the argument is in the range of -1 (inclusive) to 1 (inclusive),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>&#x201c;NaN&#x201d; for other legitimate numeric values.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: asin(1), &quot;v2&quot;: asin(2), &quot;v3&quot;: asin(0), &quot;v4&quot;: asin(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: asin(double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.5707963267948966, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.5235987755982989, &quot;v5&quot;: -0.5235987755982989 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="atan"></a>atan</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">atan(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc tangent value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc tangent in radians for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: atan(1), &quot;v2&quot;: atan(2), &quot;v3&quot;: atan(0), &quot;v4&quot;: atan(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: atan(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.7853981633974483, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.1071487177940904, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.4636476090008061, &quot;v5&quot;: 1.5697963271282298 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="atan2"></a>atan2</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">atan2(numeric_value1, numeric_value2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc tangent value of numeric_value2/numeric_value1.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc tangent in radians for <tt>numeric_value1</tt> and <tt>numeric_value2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: atan2(1, 2), &quot;v2&quot;: atan2(0, 4), &quot;v3&quot;: atan2(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.4636476090008061, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v3&quot;: 2.356194490192345 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ceil"></a>ceil</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ceil(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the smallest (closest to negative infinity) number with no fractional part that is not less than the value of the argument. If the argument is already equal to mathematical integer, then the result is the same as the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The ceiling value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: ceil(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: ceil(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: ceil(0.3),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: ceil(float(&quot;-2013.2&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: ceil(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2013.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="cos"></a>cos</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">cos(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the cosine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> cosine value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: cos(1), &quot;v2&quot;: cos(2), &quot;v3&quot;: cos(0), &quot;v4&quot;: cos(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: cos(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.5403023058681398, &quot;v2&quot;: -0.4161468365471424, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.8775825618903728, &quot;v5&quot;: 0.562379076290703 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="exp"></a>exp</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">exp(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes e<sup>numeric_value</sup>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>e<sup>numeric_value</sup>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: exp(1), &quot;v2&quot;: exp(2), &quot;v3&quot;: exp(0), &quot;v4&quot;: exp(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: exp(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2.718281828459045, &quot;v2&quot;: 7.38905609893065, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.6487212707001282, &quot;v5&quot;: &quot;Infinity&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="floor"></a>floor</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">floor(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the largest (closest to positive infinity) number with no fractional part that is not greater than the value. If the argument is already equal to mathematical integer, then the result is the same as the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The floor value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: floor(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: floor(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: floor(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: floor(float(&quot;-2013.2&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: floor(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2014.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ln"></a>ln</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ln(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes log<sub>e</sub>numeric_value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>log<sub>e</sub>numeric_value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: ln(1), &quot;v2&quot;: ln(2), &quot;v3&quot;: ln(0), &quot;v4&quot;: ln(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: ln(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.6931471805599453, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-Infinity&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -0.6931471805599453, &quot;v5&quot;: 6.907755278982137 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="log"></a>log</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">log(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes log<sub>10</sub>numeric_value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>log<sub>10</sub>numeric_value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: log(1), &quot;v2&quot;: log(2), &quot;v3&quot;: log(0), &quot;v4&quot;: log(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: log(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.3010299956639812, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-Infinity&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -0.3010299956639812, &quot;v5&quot;: 3.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="power"></a>power</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">power(numeric_value1, numeric_value2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes numeric_value1<sup>numeric_value2</sup>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>numeric_value1<sup>numeric_value2</sup>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: power(1, 2), &quot;v3&quot;: power(0, 4), &quot;v4&quot;: power(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.4142135623730951 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="round"></a>round</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">round(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the number with no fractional part that is closest (and also closest to positive infinity) to the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The rounded value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: round(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: round(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: round(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: round(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: round(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sign"></a>sign</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sign(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the sign of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sign (a <tt>tinyint</tt>) of the argument, -1 for negative values, 0 for 0, and 1 for positive values,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sign(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sign(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sign(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sign(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sign(double(&quot;-1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1, &quot;v5&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sin"></a>sin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sin(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the sine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> sine value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sin(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sin(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sin(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sin(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sin(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.8414709848078965, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.9092974268256817, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.479425538604203, &quot;v5&quot;: 0.8268795405320025 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sqrt"></a>sqrt</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sqrt(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the square root of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> square root value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sqrt(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sqrt(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sqrt(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sqrt(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sqrt(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.4142135623730951, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.7071067811865476, &quot;v5&quot;: 31.622776601683793 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="tan"></a>tan</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">tan(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the tangent value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> tangent value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: tan(1), &quot;v2&quot;: tan(2), &quot;v3&quot;: tan(0), &quot;v4&quot;: tan(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: tan(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.5574077246549023, &quot;v2&quot;: -2.185039863261519, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.5463024898437905, &quot;v5&quot;: 1.4703241557027185 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="trunc"></a>trunc</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trunc(numeric_value, number_digits)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Truncates the number to the given number of integer digits to the right of the decimal point (left if digits is negative). Digits is 0 if not given.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>number_digits</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> tangent value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-numeric value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-tinyint, non-smallint, non-integer, and non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: trunc(1, 1), &quot;v2&quot;: trunc(2, -2), &quot;v3&quot;: trunc(0.122, 2), &quot;v4&quot;: trunc(float(&quot;11.52&quot;), -1), &quot;v5&quot;: trunc(double(&quot;1000.5252&quot;), 3) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: 2, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.12, &quot;v4&quot;: 10.0, &quot;v5&quot;: 1000.525 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="round_half_to_even"></a>round_half_to_even</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">round_half_to_even(numeric_value, [precision])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the closest numeric value to <tt>numeric_value</tt> that is a multiple of ten to the power of minus <tt>precision</tt>. <tt>precision</tt> is optional and by default value <tt>0</tt> is used.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>precision</tt>: an optional <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> field representing the number of digits in the fraction of the the result</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The rounded value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-numeric value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-tinyint, non-smallint, non-integer, or non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: round_half_to_even(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: round_half_to_even(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: round_half_to_even(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: round_half_to_even(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: round_half_to_even(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;)),
+  &quot;v6&quot;: round_half_to_even(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;), 2),
+  &quot;v7&quot;: round_half_to_even(2013, 4),
+  &quot;v8&quot;: round_half_to_even(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;), 5)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0, &quot;v6&quot;: -2013.89, &quot;v7&quot;: 2013, &quot;v8&quot;: -2013.256 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="String_Functions"></a><a name="StringFunctions" id="StringFunctions">String Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="concat"></a>concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">concat(string1, string2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a concatenated string from arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string1</tt>: a string value,</li>
+<li><tt>string2</tt>: a string value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a concatenated string from arguments,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">concat(&quot;test &quot;, &quot;driven &quot;, &quot;development&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;test driven development&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="contains"></a>contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">contains(string, substring_to_contain)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> contains the string <tt>substring_to_contain</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the given substring,</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_contain</tt> : a target <tt>string</tt> that might be contained.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains <tt>substring_to_contain</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: contains(&quot;I like x-phone&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: contains(&quot;one&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ends_with"></a>ends_with</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ends_with(string, substring_to_end_with)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> ends with the string <tt>substring_to_end_with</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might end with the given string,</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_end_with</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might be contained as the ending substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains <tt>substring_to_contain</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: ends_with(&quot; love product-b its shortcut_menu is awesome:)&quot;, &quot;:)&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: ends_with(&quot; awsome:)&quot;, &quot;:-)&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="initcap_.28or_title.29"></a>initcap (or title)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">initcap(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> so that the first letter of each word is uppercase and every other letter is lowercase. The function has an alias called &#x201c;title&#x201d;.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the title form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: initcap(&quot;ASTERIXDB is here!&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: title(&quot;ASTERIXDB is here!&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;Asterixdb Is Here!&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;Asterixdb Is Here!&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="length"></a>length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">length(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the length of the string <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or <tt>null</tt> that represents the string to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the length of <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">length(&quot;test string&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">11
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="lower"></a>lower</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">lower(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> to its lowercase form.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the lowercase form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">lower(&quot;ASTERIXDB&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;asterixdb&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ltrim"></a>ltrim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ltrim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all leading characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ltrim(&quot;me like x-phone&quot;, &quot;eml&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like x-phone&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="position"></a>position</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">position(string, string_pattern)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the first position of <tt>string_pattern</tt> within <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first position that <tt>string_pattern</tt> appears within <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0), or -1 if it does not appear,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: position(&quot;ppphonepp&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: position(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 3, &quot;v2&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_contains"></a>regexp_contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_contains(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the strings <tt>string</tt> contains the regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern).</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, returns <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains the pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_contains(&quot;pphonepp&quot;, &quot;p*hone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_contains(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;p+hone&quot;)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_like"></a>regexp_like</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_like(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> exactly matches the regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern).</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> that might be contained,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains the pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_like(&quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;, &quot;.*acast.*&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_like(&quot;acast&quot;, &quot;.*acst.*&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_position"></a>regexp_position</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_position(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns first position of the regular expression <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern) within <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first position that the regular expression <tt>string_pattern</tt> appears in <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0), or -1 if it does not appear.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_position(&quot;pphonepp&quot;, &quot;p*hone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_position(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;p+hone&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_replace"></a>regexp_replace</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_replace(string, string_pattern, string_replacement[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> matches the given regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern), and replaces the matched pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> with the new pattern <tt>string_replacement</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_replacement</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be used as the replacement,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during replace.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>Returns a <tt>string</tt> that is obtained after the replacements,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_replace(&quot; like x-phone the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;, &quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;like product-a&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;like product-a the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="repeat"></a>repeat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">repeat(string, n)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a string formed by repeating the input <tt>string</tt> <tt>n</tt> times.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be repeated,</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> : an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value - how many times the string should be repeated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a string that repeats the input <tt>string</tt> <tt>n</tt> times,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">repeat(&quot;test&quot;, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;testtesttest&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="replace"></a>replace</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">replace(string, search_string, replacement_string[, limit])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds occurrences of the given substring <tt>search_string</tt> in the input string <tt>string</tt> and replaces them with the new substring <tt>replacement_string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : an input <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>search_string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt>  substring to be searched for,</li>
+<li><tt>replacement_string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be used as the replacement,</li>
+<li><tt>limit</tt> : (Optional) an <tt>integer</tt> - maximum number of occurrences to be replaced. If not specified then all occurrences will be replaced</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>Returns a <tt>string</tt> that is obtained after the replacements,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value or non-integer <tt>limit</tt> will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: replace(&quot; like x-phone the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;, &quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;like product-a&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: replace(&quot;x-phone and x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;, &quot;product-a&quot;, 1)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;like product-a the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;,
+  &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;product-a and x-phone&quot;
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="rtrim"></a>rtrim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">rtrim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all trailing characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: rtrim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: rtrim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;onexph&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;i like &quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;i like &quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="split"></a>split</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">split(string, sep)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Splits the input <tt>string</tt> into an array of substrings separated by the string <tt>sep</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be split.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array of substrings by splitting the input <tt>string</tt> by <tt>sep</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">split(&quot;test driven development&quot;, &quot; &quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;test&quot;, &quot;driven&quot;, &quot;development&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="starts_with"></a>starts_with</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">starts_with(string, substring_to_start_with)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> starts with the string <tt>substring_to_start_with</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might start with the given string.</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_start_with</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might be contained as the starting substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, returns <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> starts with the string <tt>substring_to_start_with</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot; : starts_with(&quot; like the plan, amazing&quot;, &quot; like&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot; : starts_with(&quot;I like the plan, amazing&quot;, &quot; like&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substr"></a>substr</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substr(string, offset[, length])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> based on the given start offset <tt>offset</tt> with the optional <tt>length</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>offset</tt> : an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value as the starting offset of the substring in <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0),</li>
+<li><tt>length</tt> : (Optional) an an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value as the length of the substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> if the argument is present.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substr(&quot;test string&quot;, 6, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;str&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="trim"></a>trim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all leading characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;xphoen&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like &quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="upper"></a>upper</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">upper(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> to its uppercase form.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the uppercase form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">upper(&quot;hello&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;HELLO&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_concat"></a>string_concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_concat(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Concatenates an array of strings <tt>array</tt> into a single string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of <tt>string</tt>s (could be <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>) to be concatenated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the concatenated <tt>string</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_concat([&quot;ASTERIX&quot;, &quot; &quot;, &quot;ROCKS!&quot;]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;ASTERIX ROCKS!&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_join"></a>string_join</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_join(array, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Joins an array or multiset of strings <tt>array</tt> with the given separator <tt>string</tt> into a single string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of strings (could be <tt>null</tt>) to be joined.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to serve as the separator.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the joined <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the first argument array contains a <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the first argument array contains a <tt>null</tt> but does not contain a <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-array value, or contains any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_join([&quot;ASTERIX&quot;, &quot;ROCKS~&quot;], &quot;!! &quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;ASTERIX!! ROCKS~&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_to_codepoint"></a>string_to_codepoint</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_to_codepoint(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts the string <tt>string</tt> to its code_based representation.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that will be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of the code points for the string <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_to_codepoint(&quot;Hello ASTERIX!&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 65, 83, 84, 69, 82, 73, 88, 33 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="codepoint_to_string"></a>codepoint_to_string</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">codepoint_to_string(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts the ordered code_based representation <tt>array</tt> to the corresponding string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> of integer code_points.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> representation of <tt>array</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">codepoint_to_string([72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 65, 83, 84, 69, 82, 73, 88, 33]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;Hello ASTERIX!&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substring_before"></a>substring_before</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_before(string, string_pattern)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> before the given pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted.</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> pattern to be searched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_before(&quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like &quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substring_after"></a>substring_after</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>substring_after(string, string_pattern);</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> after the given pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted.</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> pattern to be searched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_after(&quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;xph&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;one&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Binary_Functions"></a><a name="BinaryFunctions" id="BinaryFunctions">Binary Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="parse_binary"></a>parse_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>parse_binary(string, encoding)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>binary</tt> from an string encoded in <tt>encoding</tt> format.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : an encoded <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>encoding</tt> : a string notation specifies the encoding type of the given <tt>string</tt>. Currently we support <tt>hex</tt> and <tt>base64</tt> format.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>binary</tt> that is decoded from the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+<p>[ parse_binary(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;,&#x201c;hex&#x201d;), parse_binary(&#x201c;abcdef0123456789&#x201d;,&#x201c;HEX&#x201d;), parse_binary(&#x2018;QXN0ZXJpeAE=&#x2019;,&#x201c;base64&#x201d;) ];</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>[ hex(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;), hex(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;), hex(&#x201c;4173746572697801&#x201d;) ]</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="print_binary"></a>print_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>print_binary(binary, encoding)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Prints a <tt>binary</tt> to the required encoding <tt>string</tt> format.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> data need to be printed.</li>
+<li><tt>encoding</tt> : a string notation specifies the expected encoding type. Currently we support <tt>hex</tt> and <tt>base64</tt> format.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the encoded format of a <tt>binary</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ print_binary(hex(&quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot;), &quot;base64&quot;), print_binary(base64(&quot;q83vASNFZ4k=&quot;), &quot;hex&quot;) ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result are:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;q83vASNFZ4k=&quot;, &quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="binary_length"></a>binary_length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>binary_length(binary)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the number of bytes storing the binary data.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> value to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the number of bytes,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-binary input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">binary_length(hex(&quot;00AA&quot;))
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>2</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sub_binary"></a>sub_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>sub_binary(binary, offset[, length])</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the sub binary from the given <tt>binary</tt> based on the given start offset with the optional <tt>length</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>offset</tt> : a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> value as the starting offset of the sub binary in <tt>binary</tt> (starting at 0),</li>
+<li><tt>length</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> value as the length of the sub binary.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>binary</tt> that represents the sub binary,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-binary value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-integer value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-integer value, if it is present.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sub_binary(hex(&quot;AABBCCDD&quot;), 4);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">hex(&quot;DD&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="binary_concat"></a>binary_concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>binary_concat(array)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Concatenates a binary <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> into a single binary.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of binaries (could be <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>) to be concatenated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value  :
+<ul>
+
+<li>the concatenated <tt>binary</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-binary element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+<p>binary_concat([hex(&#x201c;42&#x201d;), hex(&quot;&quot;), hex(&#x2018;42&#x2019;)]);</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is</p>
+<p>hex(&#x201c;4242&#x201d;)</p>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Spatial_Functions"></a><a name="SpatialFunctions" id="SpatialFunctions">Spatial Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_point"></a>create_point</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_point(x, y)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>point</tt> using an <tt>x</tt> and <tt>y</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>x</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the x-coordinate,</li>
+<li><tt>y</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the y-coordinate.</li>
+<li>Return Value:</li>
+<li>a <tt>point</tt> representing the ordered pair (<tt>x</tt>, <tt>y</tt>),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-double input value will cause a type error.</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;point&quot;: create_point(30.0,70.0) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;point&quot;: point(&quot;30.0,70.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_line"></a>create_line</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_line(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>line</tt> using <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the start point of the line.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the end point of the line.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>line</tt> created using the points provided in <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;line&quot;: create_line(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(50.0,90.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;line&quot;: line(&quot;30.0,70.0 50.0,90.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_rectangle"></a>create_rectangle</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_rectangle(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>rectangle</tt> using <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the lower_left point of the rectangle.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the upper_right point of the rectangle.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>rectangle</tt> created using the points provided in <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;rectangle&quot;: create_rectangle(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(50.0,90.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;rectangle&quot;: rectangle(&quot;30.0,70.0 50.0,90.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_circle"></a>create_circle</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_circle(point, radius)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>circle</tt> using <tt>point</tt> and <tt>radius</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the center of the circle.</li>
+<li><tt>radius</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the radius of the circle.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>circle</tt> created using the center point and the radius provided in <tt>point</tt> and <tt>radius</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-point value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle&quot;: create_circle(create_point(30.0,70.0), 5.0) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle&quot;: circle(&quot;30.0,70.0 5.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_polygon"></a>create_polygon</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_polygon(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>polygon</tt> using the double values provided in the argument <tt>array</tt>. Each two consecutive double values represent a point starting from the first double value in the array. Note that at least six double values should be specified, meaning a total of three points.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an array of doubles representing the points of the polygon.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>polygon</tt>, represents a spatial simple polygon created using the points provided in <tt>array</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-double element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;polygon&quot;: create_polygon([1.0,1.0,2.0,2.0,3.0,3.0,4.0,4.0]) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;polygon&quot;: polygon(&quot;1.0,1.0 2.0,2.0 3.0,3.0 4.0,4.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_x.2Fget_y"></a>get_x/get_y</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_x(point) or get_y(point)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the x or y coordinates of a point <tt>point</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> representing the x or y coordinates of the point <tt>point</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;x_coordinate&quot;: get_x(create_point(2.3,5.0)), &quot;y_coordinate&quot;: get_y(create_point(2.3,5.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;x_coordinate&quot;: 2.3, &quot;y_coordinate&quot;: 5.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_points"></a>get_points</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_points(spatial_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an ordered array of the points forming the spatial object <tt>spatial_object</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_object</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of the points forming the spatial object <tt>spatial_object</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-spatial-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_points(create_polygon([1.0,1.0,2.0,2.0,3.0,3.0,4.0,4.0]))
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ point(&quot;1.0,1.0&quot;), point(&quot;2.0,2.0&quot;), point(&quot;3.0,3.0&quot;), point(&quot;4.0,4.0&quot;) ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_center.2Fget_radius"></a>get_center/get_radius</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_center(circle_expression) or get_radius(circle_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the center and the radius of a circle <tt>circle_expression</tt>, respectively.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>circle_expression</tt> : a <tt>circle</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>point</tt> or <tt>double</tt>, represent the center or radius of the circle <tt>circle_expression</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-circle input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;circle_radius&quot;: get_radius(create_circle(create_point(6.0,3.0), 1.0)),
+  &quot;circle_center&quot;: get_center(create_circle(create_point(6.0,3.0), 1.0))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle_radius&quot;: 1.0, &quot;circle_center&quot;: point(&quot;6.0,3.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_distance"></a>spatial_distance</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_distance(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the Euclidean distance between <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> as the Euclidean distance between <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_distance(point(&quot;47.44,80.65&quot;), create_point(30.0,70.0));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">20.434678857275934
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_area"></a>spatial_area</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_area(spatial_2d_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the spatial area of <tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt> : a <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> representing the area of <tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-2d-spatial-object will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_area(create_circle(create_point(0.0,0.0), 5.0));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">78.53981625
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_intersect"></a>spatial_intersect</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_intersect(spatial_object1, spatial_object2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>@arg1</tt> and <tt>@arg2</tt> spatially intersect each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_object1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>spatial_object2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> representing whether <tt>spatial_object1</tt> and <tt>spatial_object2</tt> spatially overlap with each other,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-spatial-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_intersect(point(&quot;39.28,70.48&quot;), create_rectangle(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(40.0,80.0)));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">true
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_cell"></a>spatial_cell</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_cell(point1, point2, x_increment, y_increment)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the grid cell that <tt>point1</tt> belongs to.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> representing the point of interest that its grid cell will be returned.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> representing the origin of the grid.</li>
+<li><tt>x_increment</tt> : a <tt>double</tt>, represents X increments.</li>
+<li><tt>y_increment</tt> : a <tt>double</tt>, represents Y increments.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>rectangle</tt> representing the grid cell that <tt>point1</tt> belongs to,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-point value,</li>
+<li>or, the second or third argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_cell(point(&quot;39.28,70.48&quot;), create_point(20.0,50.0), 5.5, 6.0);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">rectangle(&quot;36.5,68.0 42.0,74.0&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Similarity_Functions"></a><a name="SimilarityFunctions" id="SimilarityFunctions">Similarity Functions</a></h2>
+<p>AsterixDB supports queries with different similarity functions, including <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance">edit distance</a> and <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard</a>.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance"></a>edit_distance</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance(expression1, expression2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the edit distance between <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance(&quot;SuzannaTillson&quot;, &quot;Suzanna Tilson&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">2
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance_check"></a>edit_distance_check</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_check(expression1, expression2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> is within a given threshold.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the distance threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> is within the given threshold.</li>
+<li>The second item contains an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> if the first item is true.</li>
+<li>If the first item is false, then the second item is set to 2147483647.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_check(&quot;happy&quot;,&quot;hapr&quot;,2);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ true, 2 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance_contains"></a>edit_distance_contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_contains(expression1, expression2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>expression1</tt> contains <tt>expression2</tt> with an <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance">edit distance</a> within a given threshold.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the distance threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether <tt>expression1</tt> can contain <tt>expression2</tt>.</li>
+<li>The second item contains an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the required edit distance for <tt>expression1</tt> to contain <tt>expression2</tt> if the first item is true.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_contains(&quot;happy&quot;,&quot;hapr&quot;,2);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ true, 1 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="similarity_jaccard"></a>similarity_jaccard</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard(array1, array2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard similarity</a> of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array1</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>array2</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>float</tt> that represents the Jaccard similarity of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in any input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: a <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">keyword index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard([1,5,8,9], [1,5,9,10]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0.6
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="similarity_jaccard_check"></a>similarity_jaccard_check</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard_check(array1, array2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> have a <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard similarity</a> greater than or equal to threshold.  Again, the &#x201c;check&#x201d; version of Jaccard is faster than the &#x201c;non_check&#x201d; version.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array1</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>array2</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the similarity threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> are similar.</li>
+<li>The second item contains a <tt>float</tt> that represents the Jaccard similarity of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> if it is greater than or equal to the threshold, or 0 otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-array value,
+<ul>
+
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: a <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">keyword index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard_check([1,5,8,9], [1,5,9,10], 0.6);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ false, 0.0 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Tokenizing_Functions"></a><a name="TokenizingFunctions" id="TokenizingFunctions">Tokenizing Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="word_tokens"></a>word_tokens</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">word_tokens(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an array of word tokens of <tt>string</tt> using non_alphanumeric characters as delimiters.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that will be tokenized.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of <tt>string</tt> word tokens,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">word_tokens(&quot;I like the phone, awesome!&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;i&quot;, &quot;like&quot;, &quot;the&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;, &quot;awesome&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Temporal_Functions"></a><a name="TemporalFunctions" id="TemporalFunctions">Temporal Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_year.2Fget_month.2Fget_day.2Fget_hour.2Fget_minute.2Fget_second.2Fget_millisecond"></a>get_year/get_month/get_day/get_hour/get_minute/get_second/get_millisecond</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year/get_month/get_day/get_hour/get_minute/get_second/get_millisecond(temporal_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Accessors for accessing fields in a temporal value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>temporal_value</tt> : a temporal value represented as one of the following types: <tt>date</tt>, <tt>datetime</tt>, <tt>time</tt>, and <tt>duration</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the field to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;year&quot;: get_year(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;)),
+  &quot;month&quot;: get_month(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;)),
+  &quot;day&quot;: get_day(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;)),
+  &quot;hour&quot;: get_hour(time(&quot;12:23:34.930+07:00&quot;)),
+  &quot;min&quot;: get_minute(duration(&quot;P3Y73M632DT49H743M3948.94S&quot;)),
+  &quot;second&quot;: get_second(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;)),
+  &quot;ms&quot;: get_millisecond(duration(&quot;P3Y73M632DT49H743M3948.94S&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;year&quot;: 2010, &quot;month&quot;: 11, &quot;day&quot;: 30, &quot;hour&quot;: 5, &quot;min&quot;: 28, &quot;second&quot;: 23, &quot;ms&quot;: 94 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="adjust_datetime_for_timezone"></a>adjust_datetime_for_timezone</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_datetime_for_timezone(datetime, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Adjusts the given datetime <tt>datetime</tt> by applying the timezone information <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be adjusted.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the timezone information.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value representing the new datetime after being adjusted by the timezone information,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_datetime_for_timezone(datetime(&quot;2008-04-26T10:10:00&quot;), &quot;+08:00&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;2008-04-26T18:10:00.000+08:00&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="adjust_time_for_timezone"></a>adjust_time_for_timezone</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_time_for_timezone(time, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Adjusts the given time <tt>time</tt> by applying the timezone information <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time</tt> : a <tt>time</tt> value to be adjusted.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the timezone information.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value representing the new time after being adjusted by the timezone information,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-time value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_time_for_timezone(get_time_from_datetime(datetime(&quot;2008-04-26T10:10:00&quot;)), &quot;+08:00&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;18:10:00.000+08:00&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="calendar_duration_from_datetime"></a>calendar_duration_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">calendar_duration_from_datetime(datetime, duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a user_friendly representation of the duration <tt>duration_value</tt> based on the given datetime <tt>datetime</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be used as the reference time point.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> value to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> value with the duration as <tt>duration_value</tt> but with a user_friendly representation,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-duration input value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">calendar_duration_from_datetime(
+      datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;),
+      datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;) - datetime(&quot;2011-01-01T00:00:00&quot;)
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration(&quot;P5Y2M24DT10H10M&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_year_month_duration.2Fget_day_time_duration"></a>get_year_month_duration/get_day_time_duration</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year_month_duration/get_day_time_duration(duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Extracts the correct <tt>duration</tt> subtype from <tt>duration_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> value to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>year_month_duration</tt> value or a <tt>day_time_duration</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year_month_duration(duration(&quot;P12M50DT10H&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">year_month_duration(&quot;P1Y&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="months_from_year_month_duration.2Fmilliseconds_from_day_time_duration"></a>months_from_year_month_duration/milliseconds_from_day_time_duration</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">months_from_year_month_duration/milliseconds_from_day_time_duration(duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Extracts the number of months or the number of milliseconds from the <tt>duration</tt> subtype.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> of the correct subtype.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> representing the number or months/milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">months_from_year_month_duration(get_year_month_duration(duration(&quot;P5Y7MT50M&quot;)));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">67
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="duration_from_months.2Fduration_from_ms"></a>duration_from_months/duration_from_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_months/duration_from_ms(number_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>duration</tt> from <tt>number_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>number_value</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> representing the number of months/milliseconds</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> containing <tt>number_value</tt> value for months/milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_months(8);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration(&quot;P8M&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="duration_from_interval"></a>duration_from_interval</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_interval(interval_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>duration</tt> from <tt>interval_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval_value</tt> : an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> representing the time in the <tt>interval_value</tt></li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;dr1&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;), date(&quot;2010-12-21&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr2&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;2012-06-26T01:01:01.111&quot;), datetime(&quot;2012-07-27T02:02:02.222&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr3&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(time(&quot;12:32:38&quot;), time(&quot;20:29:20&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr4&quot; : duration_from_interval(null)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;dr1&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;P52D&quot;),
+  &quot;dr2&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;P31DT1H1M1.111S&quot;),
+  &quot;dr3&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;PT7H56M42S&quot;),
+  &quot;dr4&quot;: null
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_date"></a>current_date</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_date()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the current date.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value of the date when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_time"></a>current_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_time()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the current time</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value of the time when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_datetime"></a>current_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_datetime()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the current datetime</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value of the datetime when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_date_from_datetime"></a>get_date_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_date_from_datetime(datetime)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the date value from the given datetime value <tt>datetime</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt>: a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be extracted from.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value from the datetime,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_time_from_datetime"></a>get_time_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_time_from_datetime(datetime)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the time value from the given datetime value <tt>datetime</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt>: a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be extracted from.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value from the datetime.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_time_from_datetime(datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time(&quot;10:10:00.000Z&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="day_of_week"></a>day_of_week</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">day_of_week(date)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds the day of the week for a given date (1_7)</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value (Can also be a <tt>datetime</tt>)</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>tinyint</tt> representing the day of the week (1_7),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-date input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">day_of_week(datetime(&quot;2012-12-30T12:12:12.039Z&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">7
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="date_from_unix_time_in_days"></a>date_from_unix_time_in_days</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">date_from_unix_time_in_days(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a date representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> days since 1970_01_01.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of days.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> days since 1970-01-01,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms"></a>datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a datetime representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs"></a>datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a datetime representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of seconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_date_time"></a>datetime_from_date_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Syntax:</li>
+</ul>
+<p>datetime_from_date_time(date,time)</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Gets a datetime representing the combination of <tt>date</tt> and <tt>time</tt>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>time</tt> a <tt>time</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value by combining <tt>date</tt> and <tt>time</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-time value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="time_from_unix_time_in_ms"></a>time_from_unix_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time_from_unix_time_in_ms(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a time representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;date&quot;: date_from_unix_time_in_days(15800),
+  &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(1365139700000),
+  &quot;time&quot;: time_from_unix_time_in_ms(3748)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;date&quot;: date(&quot;2013-04-05&quot;), &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-04-05T05:28:20.000Z&quot;), &quot;time&quot;: time(&quot;00:00:03.748Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_date_in_days"></a>unix_time_from_date_in_days</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_date_in_days(date_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the number of days since 1970_01_01 for <tt>date_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date_value</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of days,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-date input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms"></a>unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms(datetime_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time in milliseconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z for <tt>datetime_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime_value</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs"></a>unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs(datetime_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time in seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z for <tt>datetime_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime_value</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of seconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_time_in_ms"></a>unix_time_from_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_time_in_ms(time_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time the milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z for <tt>time_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time_value</tt> : a <tt>time</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;date&quot;: date_from_unix_time_in_days(15800),
+  &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(1365139700000),
+  &quot;time&quot;: time_from_unix_time_in_ms(3748)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;date&quot;: date(&quot;2013-04-05&quot;), &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-04-05T05:28:20.000Z&quot;), &quot;time&quot;: time(&quot;00:00:03.748Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="parse_date.2Fparse_time.2Fparse_datetime"></a>parse_date/parse_time/parse_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Syntax:</li>
+</ul>
+<p>parse_date/parse_time/parse_datetime(date,formatting_expression)</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Creates a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value by treating <tt>date</tt> with formatting <tt>formatting_expression</tt></li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> value representing the <tt>date/time/datetime</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>formatting_expression</tt> a <tt>string</tt> value providing the formatting for <tt>date_expression</tt>.Characters used to create date expression:</li>
+<li><tt>h</tt> hours</li>
+<li><tt>m</tt> minutes</li>
+<li><tt>s</tt> seconds</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> milliseconds</li>
+<li><tt>a</tt> am/pm</li>
+<li><tt>z</tt> timezone</li>
+<li><tt>Y</tt> year</li>
+<li><tt>M</tt> month</li>
+<li><tt>D</tt> day</li>
+<li><tt>W</tt> weekday</li>
+<li><tt>_</tt>, <tt>'</tt>, <tt>/</tt>, <tt>.</tt>, <tt>,</tt>, <tt>T</tt> seperators for both time and date</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value corresponding to <tt>date</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:</li>
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">parse_time(&quot;30:30&quot;,&quot;m:s&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time(&quot;00:30:30.000Z&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="print_date.2Fprint_time.2Fprint_datetime"></a>print_date/print_time/print_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">print_date/print_time/print_datetime(date,formatting_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>string</tt> representing a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value of the <tt>date</tt> using the formatting <tt>formatting_expression</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date/time/datetime</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>formatting_expression</tt> a <tt>string</tt> value providing the formatting for <tt>date_expression</tt>. Characters used to create date expression:</li>
+<li><tt>h</tt> hours</li>
+<li><tt>m</tt> minutes</li>
+<li><tt>s</tt> seconds</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> milliseconds</li>
+<li><tt>a</tt> am/pm</li>
+<li><tt>z</tt> timezone</li>
+<li><tt>Y</tt> year</li>
+<li><tt>M</tt> month</li>
+<li><tt>D</tt> day</li>
+<li><tt>W</tt> weekday</li>
+<li><tt>_</tt>, <tt>'</tt>, <tt>/</tt>, <tt>.</tt>, <tt>,</tt>, <tt>T</tt> seperators for both time and date</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value corresponding to <tt>date</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">print_time(time(&quot;00:30:30.000Z&quot;),&quot;m:s&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;30:30&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_interval_start.2C_get_interval_end"></a>get_interval_start, get_interval_end</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_interval_start/get_interval_end(interval)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: the interval to be accessed.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt>, <tt>date</tt>, or <tt>datetime</tt> (depending on the time instances of the interval) representing the starting or ending time,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start&quot;: get_interval_start(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;end&quot;: get_interval_end(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;start&quot;: date(&quot;1984_01_01&quot;), &quot;end&quot;: date(&quot;1985_01_01&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_interval_start_date.2Fget_interval_start_datetimeget_interval_start_time.2C_get_interval_end_date.2Fget_interval_end_datetime.2Fget_interval_end_time"></a>get_interval_start_date/get_interval_start_datetimeget_interval_start_time, get_interval_end_date/get_interval_end_datetime/get_interval_end_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_interval_start_date/get_interval_start_datetime/get_interval_start_time/get_interval_end_date/get_interval_end_datetime/get_interval_end_time(interval)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval for the specific date/datetime/time type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: the interval to be accessed.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt>, <tt>date</tt>, or <tt>datetime</tt> (depending on the function) representing the starting or ending time,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start1&quot;: get_interval_start_date(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;end1&quot;: get_interval_end_date(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;start2&quot;: get_interval_start_datetime(interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1Y1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;end2&quot;: get_interval_end_datetime(interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1Y1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;start3&quot;: get_interval_start_time(interval_start_from_time(&quot;08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;end3&quot;: get_interval_end_time(interval_start_from_time(&quot;08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1H&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start1&quot;: date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;),
+  &quot;end1&quot;: date(&quot;1985-01-01&quot;),
+  &quot;start2&quot;: datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;end2&quot;: datetime(&quot;1985-01-01T09:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;start3&quot;: time(&quot;08:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;end3&quot;: time(&quot;09:30:00.000Z&quot;)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_overlapping_interval"></a>get_overlapping_interval</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_overlapping_interval(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval for the specific date/datetime/time type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>interval2</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>interval</tt> that is overlapping <tt>interval1</tt> and <tt>interval2</tt>. If <tt>interval1</tt> and <tt>interval2</tt> do not overlap <tt>null</tt> is returned. Note each interval must be of the same type.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlap1&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(time(&quot;11:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19&quot;)), interval(time(&quot;12:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;23:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap2&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(time(&quot;12:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19&quot;)), interval(time(&quot;07:19:39&quot;), time(&quot;09:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap3&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(date(&quot;1980-11-30&quot;), date(&quot;1999-09-09&quot;)), interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap4&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(date(&quot;1980-11-30&quot;), date(&quot;2099-09-09&quot;)), interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap5&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;1844-03-03T11:19:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19&quot;)), interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2009-10-10T23:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap6&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19&quot;)), interval(datetime(&quot;1844-03-03T11:19:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;1888-10-10T23:18:00&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlap1&quot;: interval(time(&quot;12:23:39.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap2&quot;: null,
+  &quot;overlap3&quot;: null,
+  &quot;overlap4&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014_01_01&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap5&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap6&quot;: null
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_bin"></a>interval_bin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_bin(time_to_bin, time_bin_anchor, duration_bin_size)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time_to_bin</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing the time to be binned.</li>
+<li><tt>time_bin_anchor</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing an anchor of a bin starts. The type of this argument should be the same as the first <tt>time_to_bin</tt> argument.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_bin_size</tt>: the duration value representing the size of the bin, in the type of year_month_duration or day_time_duration. The type of this duration should be compatible with the type of <tt>time_to_bin</tt>, so that the arithmetic operation between <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt> is well_defined. Currently AsterixDB supports the following arithmetic operations:
+<ul>
+
+<li>datetime +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>datetime +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>time +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value. Note that the internal type of this interval value should be the same as the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> type,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument or the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-year_month_duration/non-day_time_duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;bin1&quot;: interval_bin(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin2&quot;: interval_bin(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;1990-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P6M&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin3&quot;: interval_bin(time(&quot;12:23:34.930+07:00&quot;), time(&quot;00:00:00&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT1M&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin4&quot;: interval_bin(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T00:00:00.000&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT24H&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;bin1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;),date(&quot;2011-01-01&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin2&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1987-07-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1988-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin3&quot;: interval(time(&quot;05:23:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;05:24:00.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin4&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1987-11-20T00:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_start_from_date.2Ftime.2Fdatetime"></a>interval_start_from_date/time/datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_start_from_date/time/datetime(date/time/datetime, duration)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Construct an <tt>interval</tt> value by the given starting <tt>date</tt>/<tt>time</tt>/<tt>datetime</tt> and the <tt>duration</tt> that the interval lasts.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date/time/datetime</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> representing a <tt>date</tt>, <tt>time</tt> or <tt>datetime</tt>, or a <tt>date</tt>/<tt>time</tt>/<tt>datetime</tt> value, representing the starting time point.</li>
+<li><tt>duration</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> or <tt>duration</tt> value representing the duration of the interval. Note that duration cannot be negative value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>interval</tt> value representing the interval starting from the given time point with the length of duration,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument or the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval1&quot;: interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;),
+  &quot;interval2&quot;: interval_start_from_time(time(&quot;02:23:28.394&quot;), &quot;PT3H24M&quot;),
+  &quot;interval3&quot;: interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1999-09-09T09:09:09.999&quot;, duration(&quot;P2M30D&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expectecd result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;1985-01-01&quot;)),
+  &quot;interval2&quot;: interval(time(&quot;02:23:28.394Z&quot;), time(&quot;05:47:28.394Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;interval3&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1999-09-09T09:09:09.999Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1999-12-09T09:09:09.999Z&quot;))
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="overlap_bins"></a>overlap_bins</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Return Value:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value. Note that the internal type of this interval value should be the same as the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> type.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">overlap_bins(interval, time_bin_anchor, duration_bin_size)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an ordered list of <tt>interval</tt> values representing each bin that is overlapping the <tt>interval</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>time_bin_anchor</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing an anchor of a bin starts. The type of this argument should be the same as the first <tt>time_to_bin</tt> argument.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_bin_size</tt>: the duration value representing the size of the bin, in the type of year_month_duration or day_time_duration. The type of this duration should be compatible with the type of <tt>time_to_bin</tt>, so that the arithmetic operation between <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt> is well_defined. Currently AsterixDB supports the following arithmetic operations:
+<ul>
+
+<li>datetime +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>datetime +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>time +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a ordered list of <tt>interval</tt> values representing each bin that is overlapping the <tt>interval</tt>. Note that the internal type as <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first arugment is any other non-interval value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-year_month_duration/non-day_time_duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;timebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(time(&quot;17:23:37&quot;), time(&quot;18:30:21&quot;)), time(&quot;00:00:00&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT30M&quot;)),
+  &quot;datebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(date(&quot;1984-03-17&quot;), date(&quot;2013-08-22&quot;)), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P10Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;datetimebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(datetime(&quot;1800-01-01T23:59:48.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;2015-07-26T13:28:30.218&quot;)),
+                              datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P100Y&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;timebins&quot;: [
+                interval(time(&quot;17:00:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;17:30:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;17:30:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;18:00:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:30:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;18:30:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;19:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+              ],
+  &quot;datebins&quot;: [
+                interval(date(&quot;1980-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2020-01-01&quot;))
+              ],
+  &quot;datetimebins&quot;: [
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;1800-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2100-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+                   ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_before.2C_interval_after"></a>interval_before, interval_after</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_before(interval1, interval2)
+interval_after(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether an interval happens before/after another interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_before(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.end &lt; interval2.start</tt>, and <tt>interval_after(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.start &gt; interval2.end</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_before&quot;: interval_before(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2005-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_after&quot;: interval_after(interval(date(&quot;2005-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;)),
+                                   interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_before&quot;: true, &quot;interval_after&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_covers.2C_interval_covered_by"></a>interval_covers, interval_covered_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_covers(interval1, interval2)
+interval_covered_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval covers the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_covers(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval1.start &lt;= interval2.start AND interval1.end &gt;= interval2.end</p>
+<p><tt>interval_covered_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval2.start &lt;= interval1.start AND interval2.end &gt;= interval1.end</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_covers&quot;: interval_covers(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2000-03-01&quot;), date(&quot;2004-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_covered_by&quot;: interval_covered_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                             interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2012-08-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_covers&quot;: true, &quot;interval_covered_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_overlaps.2C_interval_overlapped_by"></a>interval_overlaps, interval_overlapped_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_overlaps(interval1, interval2)
+interval_overlapped_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These functions check whether two intervals overlap with each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_overlaps(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if
+<p>interval1.start &lt; interval2.start AND interval2.end &gt; interval1.end AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.start</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>interval_overlapped_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval2.start &lt; interval1.start
+AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.end
+AND interval2.end &gt; interval1.start
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Note that <tt>interval_overlaps</tt> and <tt>interval_overlapped_by</tt> are following the Allen&#x2019;s relations on the definition of overlap.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;overlaps&quot;: interval_overlaps(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlapped_by&quot;: interval_overlapped_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                          interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlaps&quot;: true, &quot;overlapped_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_overlapping"></a>interval_overlapping</h3>
+<p>Note that <tt>interval_overlapping</tt> is not an Allen&#x2019;s Relation, but syntactic sugar we added for the case that the intersect of two intervals is not empty. Basically this function returns true if any of these functions return true: <tt>interval_overlaps</tt>, <tt>interval_overlapped_by</tt>, <tt>interval_covers</tt>, or <tt>interval_covered_by</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_overlapping(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>This functions check whether two intervals share any points with each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_overlapping(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if</p>
+<p>interval1.start &lt; interval2.end AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.start</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;overlapping1&quot;: interval_overlapping(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                       interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlapping2&quot;: interval_overlapping(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                       interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2006-12-31&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlapping1&quot;: true, &quot;overlapping2&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_meets.2C_interval_met_by"></a>interval_meets, interval_met_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_meets(interval1, interval2)
+interval_met_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether an interval meets with another interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_meets(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.end = interval2.start</tt>, and <tt>interval_met_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.start = interval2.end</tt>. If any of the two inputs is <tt>null</tt>, <tt>null</tt> is returned.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;meets&quot;: interval_meets(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                          interval(date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;metby&quot;: interval_met_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                           interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;meets&quot;: true, &quot;metby&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_starts.2C_interval_started_by"></a>interval_starts, interval_started_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_starts(interval1, interval2)
+interval_started_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval starts with the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_starts(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if
+<p>interval1.start = interval2.start AND interval1.end &lt;= interval2.end</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>interval_started_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval1.start = interval2.start
+AND interval2.end &lt;= interval1.end
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_starts&quot;: interval_starts(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_started_by&quot;: interval_started_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                             interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2006-08-02&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_starts&quot;: true, &quot;interval_started_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_ends.2C_interval_ended_by"></a>interval_ends, interval_ended_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_ends(interval1, interval2)
+interval_ended_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval ends with the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_ends(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval1.end = interval2.end AND interval1.start &gt;= interval2.start</p>
+<p><tt>interval_ended_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval2.end = interval1.end AND interval2.start &gt;= interval1.start</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_ends&quot;: interval_ends(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                 interval(date(&quot;1998-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_ended_by&quot;: interval_ended_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                         interval(date(&quot;2006-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_ends&quot;: true, &quot;interval_ended_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Object_Functions"></a><a name="ObjectFunctions" id="ObjectFunctions">Object Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_object_fields"></a>get_object_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_fields(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Access the object field names, type and open status for a given object.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array of <tt>object</tt> values that include the field_name <tt>string</tt>, field_type <tt>string</tt>, is_open <tt>boolean</tt> (used for debug purposes only: <tt>true</tt> if field is open and <tt>false</tt> otherwise), and optional nested <tt>orderedList</tt> for the values of a nested object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_fields(
+                  {
+                    &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                    &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                    &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+                    &quot;related&quot;: [&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                  }
+                 );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;id&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;INT64&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;project&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;address&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;RECORD&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false,
+    &quot;nested&quot;: [
+                { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;city&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+                { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;state&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false }
+              ]
+  },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;:
+        &quot;related&quot;,
+        &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;ORDEREDLIST&quot;,
+        &quot;is-open&quot;: false,
+        &quot;list&quot;: [
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; },
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; },
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; }
+                ]
+  }
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>]</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_object_field_value"></a>get_object_field_value</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_field_value(input_object, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Access the field name given in the <tt>string_expression</tt> from the <tt>object_expression</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a <tt>object</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the top level field name.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>any</tt> value saved in the designated field of the object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_field_value({
+                         &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                         &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                         &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+                         &quot;related&quot;: [&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                        },
+                        &quot;project&quot;
+                       );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;AsterixDB&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_remove_fields"></a>object_remove_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_remove_fields(input_object, field_names)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Remove indicated fields from a object given a list of field names.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt>:  a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>field_names</tt>: an array of strings and/or array of array of strings.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Return Value:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value without the fields listed in the second argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-array value or recursively contains non-string items.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_remove_fields(
+                       {
+                         &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                         &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                         &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                         &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                       },
+                       [[&quot;address&quot;, &quot;city&quot;], &quot;related&quot;]
+                     );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;id&quot;:1,
+  &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+  &quot;address&quot;:{ &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot; }
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_add_fields"></a>object_add_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_add_fields(input_object, fields)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Add fields to a object given a list of field names.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>fields</tt>: an array of field descriptor objects where each object has field_name and  field_value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value with the new fields included,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-array value, or contains non-object items.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_add_fields(
+                   {
+                     &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                     &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                     &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                     &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                    },
+                    [{&quot;field-name&quot;:&quot;employment_location&quot;, &quot;field-value&quot;:create_point(30.0,70.0)}]
+                  );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+   &quot;id&quot;:1,
+   &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+   &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+   &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+   &quot;employment_location&quot;: point(&quot;30.0,70.0&quot;)
+ }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_merge"></a>object_merge</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_merge(object1, object2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Merge two different objects into a new object.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>object1</tt> : a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>object2</tt> : a object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value with fields from both input objects. If a field&#x2019;s names in both objects are the same, an exception is issued,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_merge(
+              {
+                &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+              },
+              {
+                &quot;user_id&quot;: 22,
+                &quot;employer&quot;: &quot;UC Irvine&quot;,
+                &quot;employment_type&quot;: &quot;visitor&quot;
+              }
+            );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;employment_type&quot;: &quot;visitor&quot;,
+  &quot;address&quot;: {
+    &quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;,
+    &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;
+  },
+  &quot;related&quot;: [
+    &quot;Hivestrix&quot;,
+    &quot;Preglix&quot;,
+    &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;
+  ],
+  &quot;user_id&quot;: 22,
+  &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+  &quot;employer&quot;: &quot;UC Irvine&quot;,
+  &quot;id&quot;: 1
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_length"></a>object_length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_length(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns number of top-level fields in the given object</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : an object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an integer that represents the number of top-level fields in the given object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value or any other non-object value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_length(
+               {
+                 &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                 &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                 &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+               }
+             );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_names"></a>object_names</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_names(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns names of top-level fields in the given object</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : an object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array with top-level field names of the given object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value or any other non-object value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_names(
+               {
+                 &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                 &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                 &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+               }
+             );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;id&quot;, &quot;project&quot;, &quot;address&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Aggregate_Functions_.28Array_Functions.29"></a><a name="AggregateFunctions" id="AggregateFunctions">Aggregate Functions (Array Functions) </a></h2>
+<p>This section contains detailed descriptions of each SQL++ aggregate function (i.e., array function). Note that as described in the SQL++ query reference documentation, standard SQL aggregate functions (e.g., <tt>MIN</tt>, <tt>MAX</tt>, <tt>SUM</tt>, <tt>COUNT</tt>, and <tt>AVG</tt>) are not real functions in SQL++ but just syntactic sugars over corresponding SQL++ builtin aggregate functions (e.g., <tt>ARRAY_MIN</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_MAX</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_SUM</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_COUNT</tt>, and <tt>ARRAY_AVG</tt>).</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_count"></a>array_count</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_count(collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the number of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> to be counted,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause an error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_count( ['hello', 'world', 1, 2, 3, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">5
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_avg"></a>array_avg</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_avg(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the average value of the non-null and non-missing numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> value representing the average of the non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_avg( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">1.725
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_sum"></a>array_sum</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_sum(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the sum of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sum of the non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_sum( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">6.9
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_sql_min"></a>array_sql_min</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_min(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the min value of non-null and non-missing comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the min value of non-null and non-missing values in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_min( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_max"></a>array_max</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_max(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the max value of the non-null and non-missing comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the max value of non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_max( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3.4
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_count"></a>coll_count</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_count(collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the number of items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing the items to be counted,</li>
+<li>or a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of items in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_count( [1, 2, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">4
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_avg"></a>coll_avg</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_avg(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the average value of the numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> value representing the average of the numbers in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_avg( [100, 200, 300] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 200.0 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_sum"></a>coll_sum</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_sum(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the sum of the items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sum of the numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_sum( [100, 200, 300] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">600
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_min"></a>array_min</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_min(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the min value of comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the min value of the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_min( [10.2, 100, 5] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">5.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_max"></a>array_max</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_max(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the max value of numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The max value of the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_max( [10.2, 100, 5] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">100.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Comparison_Functions"></a><a name="ComparisonFunctions" id="ComparisonFunctions">Comparison Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="greatest"></a>greatest</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">greatest(numeric_value1, numeric_value2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the greatest value among arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the greatest values among arguments. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value or <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: greatest(1, 2, 3), &quot;v2&quot;: greatest(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;), 5000) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 3, &quot;v2&quot;: 5000.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="least"></a>least</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">least(numeric_value1, numeric_value2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the least value among arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the least values among arguments. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value or <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: least(1, 2, 3), &quot;v2&quot;: least(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;), 5000) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: -0.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Type_Functions"></a><a name="TypeFunctions" id="TypeFunctions">Type Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_array"></a>is_array</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_array(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be an <tt>array</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is an <tt>array</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_array(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_array(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isarray(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isarray(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isarray(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isarray(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isarray(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isarray([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isarray({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: true, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isarray</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_atomic_.28is_atom.29"></a>is_atomic (is_atom)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_atomic(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a value of a <a href="../datamodel.html#PrimitiveTypes">primitive</a> type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a primitive type or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_atomic(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_atomic(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isatomic(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isatomic(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isatomic(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isatom(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isatom(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isatom([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isatom({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: true, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isatomic</tt>, <tt>is_atom</tt>, and <tt>isatom</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_boolean_.28is_bool.29"></a>is_boolean (is_bool)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_boolean(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>boolean</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>boolean</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: isboolean(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: isboolean(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: is_boolean(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: is_boolean(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isbool(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isbool(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isbool(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isbool([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isbool({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isboolean</tt>, <tt>is_bool</tt>, and <tt>isbool</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_number_.28is_num.29"></a>is_number (is_num)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_number(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a numeric value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_number(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_number(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isnumber(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isnumber(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isnumber(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isnum(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isnum(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isnum([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isnum({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: true, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isnumber</tt>, <tt>is_num</tt>, and <tt>isnum</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_object_.28is_obj.29"></a>is_object (is_obj)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_object(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>object</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>object</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_object(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_object(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isobject(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isobject(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isobj(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isobj(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isobj(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isobj([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isobj({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>{ &#x201c;a&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;b&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;c&#x201d;: null, &#x201c;e&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;f&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;g&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;h&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;i&#x201d;: true }</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isobject</tt>, <tt>is_obj</tt>, and <tt>isobj</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_string_.28is_str.29"></a>is_string (is_str)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_string(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>string</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>string</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_string(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: isstring(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isstring(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isstr(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isstr(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isstr(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isstr(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isstr([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isstr({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isstring</tt>, <tt>is_str</tt>, and <tt>isstr</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_null"></a>is_null</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_null(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>null</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>null</tt> or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the input is <tt>missing</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_null(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_null(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_null(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isnull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_missing"></a>is_missing</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_missing(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>missing</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>missing</tt> or not.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_missing(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_missing(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_missing(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: false, &quot;v3&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ismissing</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_unknown"></a>is_unknown</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_unknown(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given variable is a <tt>null</tt> value or a <tt>missing</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>null</tt>/``missing<tt>value (</tt>true<tt>) or not (</tt>false`).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_unknown(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_unknown(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_unknown(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false, &quot;v3&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isunknown</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_array"></a>to_array</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_array(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an <tt>array</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>multiset</tt> type then it is returned as an <tt>array</tt> with elements in an undefined order</li>
+<li>otherwise an <tt>array</tt> containing the input expression as its single item is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_array(&quot;asterix&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_array([&quot;asterix&quot;]),
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: [&quot;asterix&quot;], &quot;v2&quot;: [&quot;asterix&quot;] }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>toarray</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_atomic_.28to_atom.29"></a>to_atomic (to_atom)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_atomic(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <a href="../datamodel.html#PrimitiveTypes">primitive</a> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of primitive type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> type and has only one element then the result of invoking to_atomic() on that element is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type and has only one field then the result of invoking to_atomic() on the value of that field is returned</li>
+<li>otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_atomic(&quot;asterix&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_atomic([&quot;asterix&quot;]),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_atomic([0, 1]),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_atomic({&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_number({&quot;x&quot;: 1, &quot;y&quot;: 2})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: null, &quot;v4&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v5&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toatomic</tt>, <tt>to_atom</tt>, and <tt>toatom</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_boolean_.28to_bool.29"></a>to_boolean (to_bool)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_boolean(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <tt>boolean</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it is <tt>0</tt> or <tt>NaN</tt>, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it&#x2019;s empty, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it&#x2019;s size is <tt>0</tt>, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it has no fields, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_boolean(0),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_boolean(1),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_boolean(&quot;&quot;),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_boolean(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: true, &quot;v3&quot;: false, &quot;v4&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toboolean</tt>, <tt>to_bool</tt>, and <tt>tobool</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_bigint"></a>to_bigint</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_bigint(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an integer value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric integer type then it is returned as the same value of <tt>bigint</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric <tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> type then it is converted to <tt>bigint</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as integer then that integer value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_bigint(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_bigint(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_bigint(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_bigint(float(&quot;1e100&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_bigint(double(&quot;1e1000&quot;)),
+  &quot;v6&quot;: to_bigint(&quot;20&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 10, &quot;v4&quot;: 9223372036854775807, &quot;v5&quot;: 9223372036854775807, &quot;v6&quot;: 20 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>tobigint</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_double"></a>to_double</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_double(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <tt>double</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1.0</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0.0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then it is returned as the value of <tt>double</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as <tt>double</tt> then that <tt>double</tt> value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_double(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_double(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_double(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_double(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_double(&quot;12.5&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v3&quot;: 10.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 11.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 12.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>todouble</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_number_.28to_num.29"></a>to_number (to_num)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_number(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a numeric value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as <tt>bigint</tt> then that <tt>bigint</tt> value is returned, otherwise if it can be parsed as <tt>double</tt> then that <tt>double</tt> value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_number(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_number(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_number(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_number(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_number(&quot;12.5&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 10, &quot;v4&quot;: 11.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 12.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>tonumber</tt>, <tt>to_num</tt>, and <tt>tonum</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_object_.28to_obj.29"></a>to_object (to_obj)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_object(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an <tt>object</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>otherwise an empty <tt>object</tt> is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_object({&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_object(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: {&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}, &quot;v2&quot;: {} }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toobject</tt>, <tt>to_obj</tt>, and <tt>toobj</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_string_.28to_str.29"></a>to_string (to_str)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_string(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a string value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>&quot;true&quot;</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>&quot;false&quot;</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then its string representation is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_string(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_string(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_string(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_string(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_string(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;false&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;true&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;10&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: &quot;11.5&quot;, &quot;v5&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>tostring</tt>, <tt>to_str</tt>, and <tt>tostr</tt>.</p><!--
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Conditional_Functions"></a><a name="ConditionalFunctions" id="ConditionalFunctions">Conditional Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_null_.28ifnull.29"></a>if_null (ifnull)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_null(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>null</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to <tt>null</tt> or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>null</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_null(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_null(null),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_null(null, &quot;asterixdb&quot;),
+    &quot;d&quot;: is_missing(if_null(missing))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot;, &quot;d&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_missing_.28ifmissing.29"></a>if_missing (ifmissing)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_missing(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>missing</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to <tt>missing</tt> or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>missing</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_missing(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_missing(missing),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_missing(missing, &quot;asterixdb&quot;),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_missing(null, &quot;asterixdb&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot;, &quot;d&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifmissing</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_missing_or_null_.28ifmissingornull.29"></a>if_missing_or_null (ifmissingornull)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_missing_or_null(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to either <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>, or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>null</tt>, non-<tt>missing</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_missing_or_null(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_missing_or_null(null, missing),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_missing_or_null(null, missing, &quot;asterixdb&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifmissingornull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_inf_.28ifinf.29"></a>if_inf (ifinf)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_inf(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-infinite (<tt>INF</tt> or<tt>-INF</tt>) number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-infinite number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-infinite number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-infinite number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_inf(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_inf(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_inf(double(&quot;INF&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_inf(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_inf(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_inf(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_inf(float(&quot;INF&quot;), 1) ],
+    &quot;h&quot;: to_string(if_inf(float(&quot;INF&quot;), double(&quot;NaN&quot;), 1)) ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1, &quot;h&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifinf</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_nan_.28ifnan.29"></a>if_nan (ifnan)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_nan(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-<tt>NaN</tt> number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_nan(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_nan(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_nan(double(&quot;NaN&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_nan(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_nan(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_nan(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_nan(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), 1) ],
+    &quot;h&quot;: to_string(if_nan(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), double(&quot;INF&quot;), 1)) ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1, &quot;h&quot;: &quot;INF&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnan</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_nan_or_inf_.28ifnanorinf.29"></a>if_nan_or_inf (ifnanorinf)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_nan_or_inf(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-infinite (<tt>INF</tt> or<tt>-INF</tt>) and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_nan_or_inf(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(double(&quot;NaN&quot;), double(&quot;INF&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_nan_or_inf(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_nan_or_inf(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_nan_or_inf(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), float(&quot;INF&quot;), 1) ],
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnanorinf</tt>.</p><!--
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Miscellaneous_Functions"></a><a name="MiscFunctions" id="MiscFunctions">Miscellaneous Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="uuid"></a>uuid</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">uuid()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Generates a <tt>uuid</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li>none</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a generated, random <tt>uuid</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="len"></a>len</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>len(array)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the length of the array array.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt>, <tt>multiset</tt>, <tt>null</tt>, or <tt>missing</tt>, represents the collection that needs to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the length of input array or the size of the input multiset,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">len([&quot;Hello&quot;, &quot;World&quot;])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">2
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="not"></a>not</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">not(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Inverts a <tt>boolean</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, the inverse of <tt>expr</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>other non-boolean argument value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: `not`(true), &quot;v2&quot;: `not`(false), &quot;v3&quot;: `not`(null), &quot;v4&quot;: `not`(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: true, &quot;v3&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="range"></a>range</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">range(start_numeric_value, end_numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Generates a series of <tt>bigint</tt> values based start the <tt>start_numeric_value</tt> until the <tt>end_numeric_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>start_numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the start value.</li>
+<li><tt>end_numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the max final value.</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array that starts with the integer value of <tt>start_numeric_value</tt> and ends with the integer value of <tt>end_numeric_value</tt>, where the value of each entry in the array is the integer successor of the value in the preceding entry.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">range(0, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="switch_case"></a>switch_case</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    condition,
+    case1, case1_result,
+    case2, case2_result,
+    ...,
+    default, default_result
+)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Switches amongst a sequence of cases and returns the result of the first matching case. If no match is found, the result of the default case is returned.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>condition</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+<li><tt>caseI/default</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+<li><tt>caseI/default_result</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>caseI_result</tt> if <tt>condition</tt> matches <tt>caseI</tt>, otherwise <tt>default_result</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example 1:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    &quot;a&quot;,
+    &quot;a&quot;, 0,
+    &quot;x&quot;, 1,
+    &quot;y&quot;, 2,
+    &quot;z&quot;, 3
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example 2:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    &quot;a&quot;,
+    &quot;x&quot;, 1,
+    &quot;y&quot;, 2,
+    &quot;z&quot;, 3
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="deep_equal"></a>deep_equal</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">deep_equal(expr1, expr2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Assess the equality between two expressions of any type (e.g., object, arrays, or multiset). Two objects are deeply equal iff both their types and values are equal.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr1</tt> : an expression,</li>
+<li><tt>expr2</tt> : an expression.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>true</tt> or <tt>false</tt> depending on the data equality,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">deep_equal(
+           {
+             &quot;id&quot;:1,
+             &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+             &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+             &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+           },
+           {
+             &quot;id&quot;:1,
+             &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+             &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;San Diego&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+             &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+           }
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">false
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div></div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr/>
+    <footer>
+      <div class="container-fluid">
+        <div class="row-fluid">
+<div class="row-fluid">Apache AsterixDB, AsterixDB, Apache, the Apache
+        feather logo, and the Apache AsterixDB project logo are either
+        registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software
+        Foundation in the United States and other countries.
+        All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered
+        trademarks of their respective owners.
+      </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </footer>
+  </body>
+</html>
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+        <li id="publishDate">Last Published: 2018-10-11</li>
+      <li id="projectVersion" class="pull-right">Version: 0.9.5-SNAPSHOT</li>
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+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/primer-sqlpp.html" title="Using SQL++"><span class="none"></span>Using SQL++</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../feeds/tutorial.html" title="Support for Data Ingestion"><span class="none"></span>Support for Data Ingestion</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../feeds.html" title="Data Ingestion with Feeds"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
     <li><a href="../udf.html" title="User Defined Functions"><span class="none"></span>User Defined Functions</a></li>
-    <li><a href="../aql/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
-    <li><a href="../aql/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Deprecated</li>
+    <li><a href="../aql/primer.html" title="AsterixDB Primer: Using AQL"><span class="none"></span>AsterixDB Primer: Using AQL</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../aql/manual.html" title="Queries: The Asterix Query Language (AQL)"><span class="none"></span>Queries: The Asterix Query Language (AQL)</a></li>
+    <li><a href="../aql/builtins.html" title="Queries: Builtin Functions (AQL)"><span class="none"></span>Queries: Builtin Functions (AQL)</a></li>
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+        <li id="publishDate">Last Published: 2018-10-11</li>
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+      <li class="nav-header">Queries</li>
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+<h1>Installation using Amazon Web Services</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="atoc" id="#toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></li>
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+<h2><a name="Introduction" id="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
+<p>Note that you can always manually launch a number of Amazon Web Services EC2 instances and then run the Ansible cluster installation scripts as described <a href="ansible.html">here</a> separately to manage the lifecycle of an AsterixDB cluster on those EC2 instances.</p>
+<p>However, via this installation option, we provide a combo solution for automating both AWS EC2 and AsterixDB, where you can run only one script to deploy, start, stop, and terminate an AsterixDB cluster on AWS.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Prerequisites" id="Prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Supported operating systems for the client: <b>Linux</b> and <b>MacOS</b></p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Supported operating systems for Amazon Web Services instances: <b>Linux</b></p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Install pip on your client machine:</p>
+<p>CentOS</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ sudo yum install python-pip
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Ubuntu</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>macOS</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ brew install pip
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Install Ansible, boto, and boto3 on your client machine:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ pip install ansible
+ $ pip install boto
+ $ pip install boto3
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that you might need <tt>sudo</tt> depending on your system configuration.</p>
+<p><b>Make sure that the version of Ansible is no less than 2.2.1.0</b>:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ ansible --version
+ ansible 2.2.1.0
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><b>For users with macOS 10.11+</b>, please create a user-level Ansible configuration file at:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> ~/.ansible.cfg
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>and add the following configuration:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> [ssh_connection]
+ control_path = %(directory)s/%%C
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Download the AsterixDB distribution package, unzip it, navigate to <tt>opt/aws/</tt></p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> $ cd opt/aws
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following files and directories are in the directory <tt>opt/aws</tt>:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> README  bin  conf  yaml
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><tt>bin</tt> contains scripts that start and terminate an AWS-based cluster instance, according to the configuration specified in files under <tt>conf</tt>, and <tt>yaml</tt> contains internal Ansible scripts that the shell scripts in <tt>bin</tt> use.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Create an AWS account and an IAM user.</p>
+<p>Set up a security group that you&#x2019;d like to use for your AWS cluster. <b>The security group should at least allow all TCP connections from anywhere.</b> Provide the name of the security group as the value for the <tt>group</tt> field in <tt>conf/aws_settings.yml</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Retrieve your AWS EC2 key pair name and use that as the <tt>keypair</tt> in <tt>conf/aws_settings.yml</tt>;</p>
+<p>retrieve your AWS IAM <tt>access key ID</tt> and use that as the <tt>access_key_id</tt> in <tt>conf/aws_settings.yml</tt>;</p>
+<p>retrieve your AWS IAM <tt>secret access key</tt> and use that as the <tt>secret_access_key</tt> in <tt>conf/aws_settings.yml</tt>.</p>
+<p>Note that you can only read or download <tt>access key ID</tt> and <tt>secret access key</tt> once from your AWS console. If you forget them, you have to create new keys and delete the old ones.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Configure your ssh setting by editing <tt>~/.ssh/config</tt> and adding the following entry:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> Host *.amazonaws.com
+      IdentityFile &lt;path_of_private_key&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that &lt;path_of_private_key&gt; should be replaced by the path to the file that stores the private key for the key pair that you uploaded to AWS and used in <tt>conf/aws_settings</tt>. For example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> Host *.amazonaws.com
+      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Cluster_Configuration"></a><a name="config" id="config">Cluster Configuration</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p><b>AWS settings</b>.  Edit <tt>conf/instance_settings.yml</tt>. The meaning of each parameter is listed as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> # The OS image id for ec2 instances.
+ image: ami-76fa4116
+
+ # The data center region for ec2 instances.
+ region: us-west-2
+
+ # The tag for each ec2 machine. Use different tags for isolation.
+ tag: scale_test
+
+ # The name of a security group that appears in your AWS console.
+ group: default
+
+ # The name of a key pair that appears in your AWS console.
+ keypair: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+
+ # The AWS access key id for your IAM user.
+ access_key_id: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+
+ # The AWS secret key for your IAM user.
+ secret_access_key: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+
+ # The AWS instance type. A full list of available types are listed at:
+ # https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
+ instance_type: t2.micro
+
+ # The number of ec2 instances that construct a cluster.
+ count: 3
+
+ # The user name.
+ user: ec2-user
+
+ # Whether to reuse one slave machine to host the master process.
+ cc_on_nc: false
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><b>As described in <a href="#Prerequisites">prerequisites</a>, the following parameters must be customized:</b></p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> # The tag for each ec2 machine. Use different tags for isolation.
+ tag: scale_test
+
+ # The name of a security group that appears in your AWS console.
+ group: default
+
+ # The name of a key pair that appears in your AWS console.
+ keypair: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+
+ # The AWS access key id for your IAM user.
+ access_key_id: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+
+ # The AWS secrety key for your IAM user.
+ secret_access_key: &lt;to be filled&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><b>Remote working directories</b>. Edit <tt>conf/instance_settings.yml</tt> to change the remote binary directory (the variable &#x201c;binarydir&#x201d;) when necessary. By default, the binary directory will be under the home directory (as the value of Ansible builtin variable ansible_env.HOME) of the ssh user account on each node.</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Cluster_Lifecycle_Management"></a><a name="lifecycle" id="lifecycle">Cluster Lifecycle Management</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Allocate AWS EC2 nodes (the number of nodes is specified in <tt>conf/instance_settings.yml</tt>) and deploy the binary to all allocated EC2 nodes:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> bin/deploy.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Before starting the AsterixDB cluster, you the instance configuration file <tt>conf/instance/cc.conf</tt> can be modified with the exception of the IP addresses/DNS names which are are generated and cannot be changed. All available parameters and their usage can be found <a href="ncservice.html#Parameters">here</a>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Launch your AsterixDB cluster on EC2:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> bin/start.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Now you can use the multi-node AsterixDB cluster on EC2 by by opening the master node listed in <tt>conf/instance/inventory</tt> at port <tt>19001</tt> (which can be customized in <tt>conf/instance/cc.conf</tt>) in your browser.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>If you want to stop the AWS-based AsterixDB cluster, run the following script:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> bin/stop.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that this only stops AsterixDB but does not stop the EC2 nodes.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>If you want to terminate the EC2 nodes that run the AsterixDB cluster, run the following script:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> bin/terminate.sh
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><b>Note that it will destroy everything in the AsterixDB cluster you installed and terminate all EC2 nodes for the cluster.</b></p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr/>
+    <footer>
+      <div class="container-fluid">
+        <div class="row-fluid">
+<div class="row-fluid">Apache AsterixDB, AsterixDB, Apache, the Apache
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+        registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software
+        Foundation in the United States and other countries.
+        All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered
+        trademarks of their respective owners.
+      </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </footer>
+  </body>
+</html>
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+    <li><a href="sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="ansible.html" title="Option 2: using Ansible"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using Ansible</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aws.html" title="Option 3: using Amazon Web Services"><span class="none"></span>Option 3: using Amazon Web Services</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
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+<h1>The Asterix Data Model (ADM)</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="toc" id="toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypes">Primitive Types</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesBoolean">Boolean</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesString">String</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesInt">Tinyint / Smallint / Integer (Int) / Bigint</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesFloat">Float</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesDouble">Double (Double Precision)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesBinary">Binary</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesPoint">Point</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesLine">Line</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesRectangle">Rectangle</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesCircle">Circle</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesPolygon">Polygon</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesDate">Date</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesTime">Time</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesDateTime">Datetime (Timestamp)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesDuration">Duration/Year_month_duration/Day_time_duration</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesInterval">Interval</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PrimitiveTypesUUID">UUID</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>[Incomplete Information Types] (#IncompleteInformationTypes)
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#IncompleteInformationTypesNull">Null</a></li>
+<li><a href="#IncompleteInformationTypesMissing">Missing</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#DerivedTypes">Derived Types</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#DerivedTypesObject">Object</a></li>
+<li><a href="#DerivedTypesArray">Array</a></li>
+<li><a href="#DerivedTypesMultiset">Multiset</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>An instance of Asterix data model (ADM) can be a <i><i>primitive type</i></i> (<tt>boolean</tt>, <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, <tt>bigint</tt>, <tt>string</tt>, <tt>float</tt>, <tt>double</tt>, <tt>date</tt>, <tt>time</tt>, <tt>datetime</tt>, etc.), a <i><i>special type</i></i> (<tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>), or a <i><i>derived type</i></i>.</p>
+<p>The type names are case-insensitive, e.g., both <tt>BIGINT</tt> and <tt>bigint</tt> are acceptable.</p><!--
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Primitive_Types"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypes" id="PrimitiveTypes">Primitive Types</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Boolean"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesBoolean" id="PrimitiveTypesBoolean">Boolean</a></h3>
+<p><tt>boolean</tt> data type can have one of the two values: <i><i>true</i></i> or <i><i>false</i></i>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;true&quot;: true, &quot;false&quot;: false };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;true&quot;: true, &quot;false&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="String"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesString" id="PrimitiveTypesString">String</a></h3>
+<p><tt>string</tt> represents a sequence of characters. The total length of the sequence can be up to 2,147,483,648.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: string(&quot;This is a string.&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: string(&quot;\&quot;This is a quoted string\&quot;&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;This is a string.&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;\&quot;This is a quoted string\&quot;&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
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+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Tinyint_.2F_Smallint_.2F_Integer_.28Int.29_.2F_Bigint"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesInt" id="PrimitiveTypesInt">Tinyint / Smallint / Integer (Int) / Bigint</a></h3>
+<p>Integer types using 8, 16, 32, or 64 bits. The ranges of these types are:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>tinyint</tt>: -128 to 127</li>
+<li><tt>smallint</tt>: -32768 to 32767</li>
+<li><tt>integer</tt>: -2147483648 to 2147483647</li>
+<li><tt>bigint</tt>: -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807</li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>int</tt> is an abbreviated alias for integer.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;tinyint&quot;: tiny(&quot;125&quot;), &quot;smallint&quot;: smallint(&quot;32765&quot;), &quot;integer&quot;: 294967295, &quot;bigint&quot;: bigint(&quot;1700000000000000000&quot;)};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;tinyint&quot;: 125, &quot;smallint&quot;: 32765, &quot;integer&quot;: 294967295, &quot;bigint&quot;: 1700000000000000000 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Float"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesFloat" id="PrimitiveTypesFloat">Float</a></h3>
+<p><tt>float</tt> represents approximate numeric data values using 4 bytes. The range of a float value can be from 2^(-149) to (2-2^(-23)&#xb7;2^(127) for both positive and negative. Beyond these ranges will get <tt>INF</tt> or <tt>-INF</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: float(&quot;NaN&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: float(&quot;INF&quot;), &quot;v3&quot;: float(&quot;-INF&quot;), &quot;v4&quot;: float(&quot;-2013.5&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;INF&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-INF&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Double_.28double_precision.29"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesDouble" id="PrimitiveTypesDouble">Double (double precision)</a></h3>
+<p><tt>double</tt> represents approximate numeric data values using 8 bytes. The range of a double value can be from (2^(-1022)) to (2-2^(-52))&#xb7;2^(1023) for both positive and negative. Beyond these ranges will get <tt>INF</tt> or <tt>-INF</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: double(&quot;NaN&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: double(&quot;INF&quot;), &quot;v3&quot;: double(&quot;-INF&quot;), &quot;v4&quot;: &quot;-2013.593823748327284&quot; };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;INF&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-INF&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.5938237483274 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>Double precision</tt> is an alias of <tt>double</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Binary"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesBinary" id="PrimitiveTypesBinary">Binary</a></h3>
+<p><tt>binary</tt> represents a sequence of bytes. It can be constructed from a <tt>hex</tt> or a <tt>base64</tt> string sequence. The total length of the byte sequence can be up to 2,147,483,648.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;hex1&quot; : hex(&quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot;),
+  &quot;hex2&quot;: hex(&quot;abcdef0123456789&quot;),
+  &quot;base64_1&quot; : base64(&quot;0123456789qwertyui+/&quot;),
+  &quot;base64_2&quot; : base64('QXN0ZXJpeA==')
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The default output format is in <tt>hex</tt> format. Thus, the expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;hex1&quot;: hex(&quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot;),
+  &quot;hex2&quot;: hex(&quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot;),
+  &quot;base64_1&quot;: hex(&quot;D35DB7E39EBBF3DAB07ABB72BA2FBF&quot;),
+  &quot;base64_2&quot;: hex(&quot;41737465726978&quot;)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Point"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesPoint" id="PrimitiveTypesPoint">Point</a></h3>
+<p><tt>point</tt> is the fundamental two-dimensional building block for spatial types. It consists of two <tt>double</tt> coordinates x and y.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: point(&quot;80.10d, -10E5&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: point(&quot;5.10E-10d, -10E5&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: point(&quot;80.1,-1000000.0&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: point(&quot;5.1E-10,-1000000.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Line"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesLine" id="PrimitiveTypesLine">Line</a></h3>
+<p><tt>line</tt> consists of two points that represent the start and the end points of a line segment.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: line(&quot;10.1234,11.1e-1 +10.2E-2,-11.22&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: line(&quot;0.1234,-1.00e-10 +10.5E-2,-01.02&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: line(&quot;10.1234,1.11 0.102,-11.22&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: line(&quot;0.1234,-1.0E-10 0.105,-1.02&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Rectangle"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesRectangle" id="PrimitiveTypesRectangle">Rectangle</a></h3>
+<p><tt>rectangle</tt> consists of two points that represent the <i><i>bottom left</i></i> and <i><i>upper right</i></i> corners of a rectangle.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: rectangle(&quot;5.1,11.8 87.6,15.6548&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: rectangle(&quot;0.1234,-1.00e-10 5.5487,0.48765&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: rectangle(&quot;5.1,11.8 87.6,15.6548&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: rectangle(&quot;0.1234,-1.0E-10 5.5487,0.48765&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Circle"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesCircle" id="PrimitiveTypesCircle">Circle</a></h3>
+<p><tt>circle</tt> consists of one point that represents the center of the circle and a radius of type <tt>double</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: circle(&quot;10.1234,11.1e-1 +10.2E-2&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: circle(&quot;0.1234,-1.00e-10 +10.5E-2&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: circle(&quot;10.1234,1.11 0.102&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: circle(&quot;0.1234,-1.0E-10 0.105&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Polygon"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesPolygon" id="PrimitiveTypesPolygon">Polygon</a></h3>
+<p><tt>polygon</tt> consists of <i><i>n</i></i> points that represent the vertices of a <i><i>simple closed</i></i> polygon.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: polygon(&quot;-1.2,+1.3e2 -2.14E+5,2.15 -3.5e+2,03.6 -4.6E-3,+4.81&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: polygon(&quot;-1.0,+10.5e2 -02.15E+50,2.5 -1.0,+3.3e3 -2.50E+05,20.15 +3.5e+2,03.6 -4.60E-3,+4.75 -2,+1.0e2 -2.00E+5,20.10 30.5,03.25 -4.33E-3,+4.75&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: polygon(&quot;-1.2,130.0 -214000.0,2.15 -350.0,3.6 -0.0046,4.81&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: polygon(&quot;-1.0,1050.0 -2.15E50,2.5 -1.0,3300.0 -250000.0,20.15 350.0,3.6 -0.0046,4.75 -2.0,100.0 -200000.0,20.1 30.5,3.25 -0.00433,4.75&quot;) }
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Date"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesDate" id="PrimitiveTypesDate">Date</a></h3>
+<p><tt>date</tt> represents a time point along the Gregorian calendar system specified by the year, month and day. ASTERIX supports the date from <tt>-9999-01-01</tt> to <tt>9999-12-31</tt>.</p>
+<p>A date value can be represented in two formats, extended format and basic format.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Extended format is represented as <tt>[-]yyyy-mm-dd</tt> for <tt>year-month-day</tt>. Each field should be padded if there are less digits than the format specified.</li>
+<li>Basic format is in the format of <tt>[-]yyyymmdd</tt>.</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: date(&quot;-19700101&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: date(&quot;-1970-01-01&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Time"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesTime" id="PrimitiveTypesTime">Time</a></h3>
+<p><tt>time</tt> type describes the time within the range of a day. It is represented by three fields: hour, minute and second. Millisecond field is optional as the fraction of the second field. Its extended format is as <tt>hh:mm:ss[.mmm]</tt> and the basic format is <tt>hhmmss[mmm]</tt>. The value domain is from <tt>00:00:00.000</tt> to <tt>23:59:59.999</tt>.</p>
+<p>Timezone field is optional for a time value. Timezone is represented as <tt>[+|-]hh:mm</tt> for extended format or <tt>[+|-]hhmm</tt> for basic format. Note that the sign designators cannot be omitted. <tt>Z</tt> can also be used to represent the UTC local time. If no timezone information is given, it is UTC by default.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: time(&quot;12:12:12.039Z&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: time(&quot;000000000-0800&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: time(&quot;12:12:12.039Z&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: time(&quot;08:00:00.000Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Datetime_.28Timestamp.29"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesDateTime" id="PrimitiveTypesDateTime">Datetime (Timestamp)</a></h3>
+<p>A <tt>datetime</tt> value is a combination of an <tt>date</tt> and <tt>time</tt>, representing a fixed time point along the Gregorian calendar system. The value is among <tt>-9999-01-01 00:00:00.000</tt> and <tt>9999-12-31 23:59:59.999</tt>.</p>
+<p>A <tt>datetime</tt> value is represented as a combination of the representation of its <tt>date</tt> part and <tt>time</tt> part, separated by a separator <tt>T</tt>. Either extended or basic format can be used, and the two parts should be the same format.</p>
+<p>Millisecond field and timezone field are optional, as specified in the <tt>time</tt> type.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T12:12:12.039Z&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: datetime(&quot;-19700101T000000000-0800&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T12:12:12.039Z&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: datetime(&quot;-1970-01-01T08:00:00.000Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>timestamp</tt> is an alias of <tt>datetime</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Duration.2FYear_month_duration.2FDay_time_duration"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesDuration" id="PrimitiveTypesDuration">Duration/Year_month_duration/Day_time_duration</a></h3>
+<p><tt>duration</tt> represents a duration of time. A duration value is specified by integers on at least one of the following fields: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond.</p>
+<p>A duration value is in the format of <tt>[-]PnYnMnDTnHnMn.mmmS</tt>. The millisecond part (as the fraction of the second field) is optional, and when no millisecond field is used, the decimal point should also be absent.</p>
+<p>Negative durations are also supported for the arithmetic operations between time instance types (<tt>date</tt>, <tt>time</tt> and <tt>datetime</tt>), and is used to roll the time back for the given duration. For example <tt>date(&quot;2012-01-01&quot;) + duration(&quot;-P3D&quot;)</tt> will return <tt>date(&quot;2011-12-29&quot;)</tt>.</p>
+<p>There are also two sub-duration types, namely <tt>year_month_duration</tt> and <tt>day_time_duration</tt>. <tt>year_month_duration</tt> represents only the years and months of a duration, while <tt>day_time_duration</tt> represents only the day to millisecond fields. Different from the <tt>duration</tt> type, both these two subtypes are totally ordered, so they can be used for comparison and index construction.</p>
+<p>Note that a canonical representation of the duration is always returned, regardless whether the duration is in the canonical representation or not from the user&#x2019;s input. More information about canonical representation can be found from <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#canonical-dayTimeDuration">XPath dayTimeDuration Canonical Representation</a> and <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#canonical-yearMonthDuration">yearMonthDuration Canonical Representation</a>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: duration(&quot;P100Y12MT12M&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: duration(&quot;-PT20.943S&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: duration(&quot;P101YT12M&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: duration(&quot;-PT20.943S&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Interval"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesInterval" id="PrimitiveTypesInterval">Interval</a></h3>
+<p><tt>interval</tt> represents inclusive-exclusive ranges of time. It is defined by two time point values with the same temporal type(<tt>date</tt>, <tt>time</tt> or <tt>datetime</tt>).</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;20130505&quot;)),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: interval(time(&quot;00:01:01&quot;), time(&quot;213901049+0800&quot;)),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T00:01:01&quot;), datetime(&quot;20130505T213901049+0800&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2013-05-05&quot;)),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: interval(time(&quot;00:01:01.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;13:39:01.049Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T00:01:01.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2013-05-05T13:39:01.049Z&quot;))
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="UUID"></a><a name="PrimitiveTypesUUID" id="PrimitiveTypesUUID">UUID</a></h3>
+<p><tt>uuid</tt> represents a UUID value, which stands for Universally unique identifier. It is defined by a canonical format using hexadecimal text with inserted hyphen characters. (E.g.: 5a28ce1e-6a74-4201-9e8f-683256e5706f). This type is generally used to store auto-generated primary key values.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">return { &quot;v1&quot;:uuid(&quot;5c848e5c-6b6a-498f-8452-8847a2957421&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: uuid(&quot;5c848e5c-6b6a-498f-8452-8847a2957421&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Incomplete_Information_Types"></a><a name="IncompleteInformationTypes" id="IncompleteInformationTypes">Incomplete Information Types</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Null"></a><a name="IncompleteInformationTypesNull" id="IncompleteInformationTypesNull">Null</a></h3>
+<p><tt>null</tt> is a special value that is often used to represent an unknown value. For example, a user might not be able to know the value of a field and let it be <tt>null</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;field&quot;: null };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;field&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Missing"></a><a name="IncompleteInformationTypesMissing" id="IncompleteInformationTypesMissing">Missing</a></h3>
+<p><tt>missing</tt> indicates that a name-value pair is missing from an object. If a missing name-value pair is accessed, an empty result value is returned by the query.</p>
+<p>As neither the data model nor the system enforces homogeneity for datasets or collections, items in a dataset or collection can be of heterogeneous types and so a field can be present in one object and <tt>missing</tt> in another.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;field&quot;: missing };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{  }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Since a field with value <tt>missing</tt> means the field is absent, we get an empty object.</p><!--
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Derived_Types"></a><a name="DerivedTypes" id="DerivedTypes">Derived Types</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Object"></a><a name="DerivedTypesObject" id="DerivedTypesObject">Object</a></h3>
+<p>An <tt>object</tt> contains a set of &#xfb01;elds, where each &#xfb01;eld is described by its name and type. An object type may be defined as either open or closed. Open objects (instances of open object types) are permitted to contain &#xfb01;elds that are not part of the type de&#xfb01;nition, while closed objects do not permit their instances to carry extra fields. An example type definition for an object is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    create type SoldierType as open {
+        name: string?,
+        rank: string,
+        serialno: int
+    };
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Syntactically, object constructors are surrounded by curly braces &#x201c;{&#x2026;}&#x201d;. Some examples of legitimate instances of the above type include:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    { &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Joe Blow&quot;, &quot;rank&quot;: &quot;Sergeant&quot;, &quot;serialno&quot;: 1234567 }
+    { &quot;rank&quot;: &quot;Private&quot;, &quot;serialno&quot;: 9876543 }
+    { &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Sally Forth&quot;, &quot;rank&quot;: &quot;Major&quot;, &quot;serialno&quot;: 2345678, &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The first instance has all of the type&#x2019;s prescribed content. The second instance is missing the name field, which is fine because it is optional (due to the ?). The third instance has an extra field; that is fine because the type definition specifies that it is open (which is also true by default, if open is not specified). To more tightly control object content, specifying closed instead of open in the type definition for SoldierType would have made the third example instance an invalid instance of the type.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Array"></a><a name="DerivedTypesArray" id="DerivedTypesArray">Array</a></h3>
+<p>An <tt>array</tt> is a container that holds a fixed number of values. Array constructors are denoted by brackets: &#x201c;[&#x2026;]&#x201d;.</p>
+<p>An example would be</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    [&quot;alice&quot;, 123, &quot;bob&quot;, null]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Multiset"></a><a name="DerivedTypesMultiset" id="DerivedTypesMultiset">Multiset</a></h3>
+<p>A <tt>multiset</tt> is a generalization of the concept of a set that, unlike a set, allows multiple instances of the multiset&#x2019;s elements. Multiset constructors are denoted by two opening curly braces followed by data and two closing curly braces, like &#x201c;{{&#x2026;}}&#x201d;.</p>
+<p>An example would be</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    {{&quot;hello&quot;, 9328, &quot;world&quot;, [1, 2, null]}}
+</pre></div></div></div></div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr/>
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-    <script type="text/javascript" src="../js/apache-maven-fluido-1.7.min.js"></script>
+    <title>AsterixDB &#x2013; Data Ingestion with Feeds</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/apache-maven-fluido-1.7.min.css" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/site.css" />
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+        <div class="pull-left"><a href="./" id="bannerLeft"><img src="images/asterixlogo.png"  alt="AsterixDB"/></a></div>
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+      <li class="pull-right"><a href="index.html" title="Documentation Home">Documentation Home</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../ansible.html" title="Option 2: using Ansible"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using Ansible</a></li>
-    <li><a href="../aws.html" title="Option 3: using Amazon Web Services"><span class="none"></span>Option 3: using Amazon Web Services</a></li>
+    <li><a href="ncservice.html" title="Option 1: using NCService"><span class="none"></span>Option 1: using NCService</a></li>
+    <li><a href="ansible.html" title="Option 2: using Ansible"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using Ansible</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aws.html" title="Option 3: using Amazon Web Services"><span class="none"></span>Option 3: using Amazon Web Services</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../aql/primer.html" title="Option 2: using AQL"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using AQL</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/primer-sqlpp.html" title="Using SQL++"><span class="none"></span>Using SQL++</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../aql/builtins.html" title="Builtin Functions"><span class="none"></span>Builtin Functions</a></li>
+    <li><a href="datamodel.html" title="The Asterix Data Model"><span class="none"></span>The Asterix Data Model</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Queries</li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/manual.html" title="The SQL++ Query Language"><span class="none"></span>The SQL++ Query Language</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/builtins.html" title="Builtin Functions"><span class="none"></span>Builtin Functions</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../csv.html" title="CSV Output"><span class="none"></span>CSV Output</a></li>
+    <li><a href="api.html" title="HTTP API"><span class="none"></span>HTTP API</a></li>
+    <li><a href="csv.html" title="CSV Output"><span class="none"></span>CSV Output</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../aql/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
-    <li><a href="../aql/externaldata.html" title="Accessing External Data"><span class="none"></span>Accessing External Data</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="../aql/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aql/externaldata.html" title="Accessing External Data"><span class="none"></span>Accessing External Data</a></li>
+    <li class="active"><a href="#"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
+    <li><a href="udf.html" title="User Defined Functions"><span class="none"></span>User Defined Functions</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Deprecated</li>
+    <li><a href="aql/primer.html" title="AsterixDB Primer: Using AQL"><span class="none"></span>AsterixDB Primer: Using AQL</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aql/manual.html" title="Queries: The Asterix Query Language (AQL)"><span class="none"></span>Queries: The Asterix Query Language (AQL)</a></li>
+    <li><a href="aql/builtins.html" title="Queries: Builtin Functions (AQL)"><span class="none"></span>Queries: Builtin Functions (AQL)</a></li>
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@@ -90,15 +90,32 @@
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-<h1>Support for Data Ingestion in AsterixDB</h1>
+<h1>Data Ingestion with Feeds</h1>
 <div class="section">
 <h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="atoc" id="#toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
 <ul>
 
 <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
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-</ul><!-- * [Feed Policies](#FeedPolicies) -->
-</div>
+<li><a href="#FeedPolicies">Feed Policies</a><!--
+! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+! distributed with this work for additional information
+! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+!
+!   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+!
+! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+! under the License.
+!--></li>
+</ul></div>
 <div class="section">
 <h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
 <p>In this document, we describe the support for data ingestion in AsterixDB. Data feeds are a new mechanism for having continuous data arrive into a BDMS from external sources and incrementally populate a persisted dataset and associated indexes. We add a new BDMS architectural component, called a data feed, that makes a Big Data system the caretaker for functionality that used to live outside, and we show how it improves users&#x2019; lives and system performance.</p></div>
@@ -136,7 +153,8 @@
 <div class="section">
 <h5><a name="Using_the_.E2.80.9Cpush_twitter.E2.80.9D_feed_adapter"></a>Using the &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; feed adapter</h5>
 <p>The &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter requires setting up an application account with Twitter. To retrieve tweets, Twitter requires registering an application. Registration involves providing a name and a brief description for the application. Each application has associated OAuth authentication credentials that include OAuth keys and tokens. Accessing the Twitter API requires providing the following. 1. Consumer Key (API Key) 2. Consumer Secret (API Secret) 3. Access Token 4. Access Token Secret</p>
-<p>The &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter takes as configuration the above mentioned parameters. End users are required to obtain the above authentication credentials prior to using the &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter. For further information on obtaining OAuth keys and tokens and registering an application with Twitter, please visit <a class="externalLink" href="http://apps.twitter.com">http://apps.twitter.com</a></p>
+<p>The &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter takes as configuration the above mentioned parameters. End users are required to obtain the above authentication credentials prior to using the &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter. For further information on obtaining OAuth keys and tokens and registering an application with Twitter, please visit <a class="externalLink" href="http://apps.twitter.com">http://apps.twitter.com</a>.</p>
+<p>Note that AsterixDB uses the Twitter4J API for getting data from Twitter. Due to a license conflict, Apache AsterixDB cannot ship the Twitter4J library. To use the Twitter adapter in AsterixDB, please download the necessary dependencies (<tt>twitter4j-core-4.0.x.jar</tt> and <tt>twitter4j-stream-4.0.x.jar</tt>) and drop them into the <tt>repo/</tt> directory before AsterixDB starts.</p>
 <p>Given below is an example AQL statement that creates a feed called &#x201c;TwitterFeed&#x201d; by using the &#x201c;push_twitter&#x201d; adapter.</p>
 
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-    <li><a href="aql/primer.html" title="Option 2: using AQL"><span class="none"></span>Option 2: using AQL</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="feeds/tutorial.html" title="Support for Data Ingestion"><span class="none"></span>Support for Data Ingestion</a></li>
+    <li><a href="feeds.html" title="Data Ingestion with Feeds"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="aql/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/fulltext.html" title="Support of Full-text Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Full-text Queries</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
+      <li class="nav-header">Deprecated</li>
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+<h1>Builtin Functions</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="toc" id="toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#NumericFunctions">Numeric Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#StringFunctions">String Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#BinaryFunctions">Binary Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SpatialFunctions">Spatial Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SimilarityFunctions">Similarity Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TokenizingFunctions">Tokenizing Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TemporalFunctions">Temporal Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ObjectFunctions">Object Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#AggregateFunctions">Aggregate Functions (Array Functions)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ComparisonFunctions">Comparison Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TypeFunctions">Type Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ConditionalFunctions">Conditional Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#MiscFunctions">Miscellaneous Functions</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>The system provides various classes of functions to support operations on numeric, string, spatial, and temporal data. This document explains how to use these functions.</p><!--
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+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Numeric_Functions"></a><a name="NumericFunctions" id="NumericFunctions">Numeric Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="abs"></a>abs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">abs(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the absolute value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The absolute value of the argument with the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: abs(2013), &quot;v2&quot;: abs(-4036), &quot;v3&quot;: abs(0), &quot;v4&quot;: abs(float(&quot;-2013.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: abs(double(&quot;-2013.593823748327284&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: 4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 2013.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 2013.5938237483274 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="acos"></a>acos</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">acos(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc cosine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc cosine in radians for the argument, if the argument is in the range of -1 (inclusive) to 1 (inclusive),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>&#x201c;NaN&#x201d; for other legitimate numeric values.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: acos(1), &quot;v2&quot;: acos(2), &quot;v3&quot;: acos(0), &quot;v4&quot;: acos(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: acos(double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.5707963267948966, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.0471975511965979, &quot;v5&quot;: 2.0943951023931957 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="asin"></a>asin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">asin(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc sine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc sin in radians for the argument, if the argument is in the range of -1 (inclusive) to 1 (inclusive),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>&#x201c;NaN&#x201d; for other legitimate numeric values.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: asin(1), &quot;v2&quot;: asin(2), &quot;v3&quot;: asin(0), &quot;v4&quot;: asin(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: asin(double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.5707963267948966, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.5235987755982989, &quot;v5&quot;: -0.5235987755982989 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="atan"></a>atan</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">atan(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc tangent value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc tangent in radians for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: atan(1), &quot;v2&quot;: atan(2), &quot;v3&quot;: atan(0), &quot;v4&quot;: atan(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: atan(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.7853981633974483, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.1071487177940904, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.4636476090008061, &quot;v5&quot;: 1.5697963271282298 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="atan2"></a>atan2</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">atan2(numeric_value1, numeric_value2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the arc tangent value of numeric_value2/numeric_value1.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> arc tangent in radians for <tt>numeric_value1</tt> and <tt>numeric_value2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: atan2(1, 2), &quot;v2&quot;: atan2(0, 4), &quot;v3&quot;: atan2(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.4636476090008061, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v3&quot;: 2.356194490192345 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ceil"></a>ceil</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ceil(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the smallest (closest to negative infinity) number with no fractional part that is not less than the value of the argument. If the argument is already equal to mathematical integer, then the result is the same as the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The ceiling value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: ceil(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: ceil(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: ceil(0.3),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: ceil(float(&quot;-2013.2&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: ceil(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2013.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="cos"></a>cos</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">cos(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the cosine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> cosine value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: cos(1), &quot;v2&quot;: cos(2), &quot;v3&quot;: cos(0), &quot;v4&quot;: cos(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: cos(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.5403023058681398, &quot;v2&quot;: -0.4161468365471424, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.8775825618903728, &quot;v5&quot;: 0.562379076290703 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="exp"></a>exp</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">exp(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes e<sup>numeric_value</sup>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>e<sup>numeric_value</sup>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: exp(1), &quot;v2&quot;: exp(2), &quot;v3&quot;: exp(0), &quot;v4&quot;: exp(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: exp(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2.718281828459045, &quot;v2&quot;: 7.38905609893065, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.6487212707001282, &quot;v5&quot;: &quot;Infinity&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="floor"></a>floor</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">floor(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the largest (closest to positive infinity) number with no fractional part that is not greater than the value. If the argument is already equal to mathematical integer, then the result is the same as the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The floor value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: floor(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: floor(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: floor(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: floor(float(&quot;-2013.2&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: floor(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2014.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ln"></a>ln</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ln(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes log<sub>e</sub>numeric_value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>log<sub>e</sub>numeric_value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: ln(1), &quot;v2&quot;: ln(2), &quot;v3&quot;: ln(0), &quot;v4&quot;: ln(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: ln(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.6931471805599453, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-Infinity&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -0.6931471805599453, &quot;v5&quot;: 6.907755278982137 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="log"></a>log</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">log(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes log<sub>10</sub>numeric_value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>log<sub>10</sub>numeric_value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: log(1), &quot;v2&quot;: log(2), &quot;v3&quot;: log(0), &quot;v4&quot;: log(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: log(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.3010299956639812, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;-Infinity&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: -0.3010299956639812, &quot;v5&quot;: 3.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="power"></a>power</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">power(numeric_value1, numeric_value2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes numeric_value1<sup>numeric_value2</sup>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>numeric_value1<sup>numeric_value2</sup>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: power(1, 2), &quot;v3&quot;: power(0, 4), &quot;v4&quot;: power(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1.4142135623730951 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="round"></a>round</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">round(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the number with no fractional part that is closest (and also closest to positive infinity) to the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The rounded value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: round(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: round(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: round(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: round(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: round(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sign"></a>sign</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sign(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the sign of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sign (a <tt>tinyint</tt>) of the argument, -1 for negative values, 0 for 0, and 1 for positive values,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sign(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sign(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sign(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sign(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sign(double(&quot;-1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 0, &quot;v4&quot;: 1, &quot;v5&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sin"></a>sin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sin(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the sine value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> sine value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sin(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sin(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sin(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sin(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sin(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.8414709848078965, &quot;v2&quot;: 0.9092974268256817, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.479425538604203, &quot;v5&quot;: 0.8268795405320025 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sqrt"></a>sqrt</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sqrt(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the square root of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> square root value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: sqrt(1), &quot;v2&quot;: sqrt(2), &quot;v3&quot;: sqrt(0), &quot;v4&quot;: sqrt(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: sqrt(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.4142135623730951, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.7071067811865476, &quot;v5&quot;: 31.622776601683793 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="tan"></a>tan</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">tan(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the tangent value of the argument.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> tangent value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: tan(1), &quot;v2&quot;: tan(2), &quot;v3&quot;: tan(0), &quot;v4&quot;: tan(float(&quot;0.5&quot;)), &quot;v5&quot;: tan(double(&quot;1000&quot;)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1.5574077246549023, &quot;v2&quot;: -2.185039863261519, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 0.5463024898437905, &quot;v5&quot;: 1.4703241557027185 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="trunc"></a>trunc</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trunc(numeric_value, number_digits)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Truncates the number to the given number of integer digits to the right of the decimal point (left if digits is negative). Digits is 0 if not given.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>number_digits</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the <tt>double</tt> tangent value for the argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-numeric value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-tinyint, non-smallint, non-integer, and non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: trunc(1, 1), &quot;v2&quot;: trunc(2, -2), &quot;v3&quot;: trunc(0.122, 2), &quot;v4&quot;: trunc(float(&quot;11.52&quot;), -1), &quot;v5&quot;: trunc(double(&quot;1000.5252&quot;), 3) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: 2, &quot;v3&quot;: 0.12, &quot;v4&quot;: 10.0, &quot;v5&quot;: 1000.525 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="round_half_to_even"></a>round_half_to_even</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">round_half_to_even(numeric_value, [precision])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the closest numeric value to <tt>numeric_value</tt> that is a multiple of ten to the power of minus <tt>precision</tt>. <tt>precision</tt> is optional and by default value <tt>0</tt> is used.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>precision</tt>: an optional <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> field representing the number of digits in the fraction of the the result</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The rounded value for the given number in the same type as the input argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-numeric value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-tinyint, non-smallint, non-integer, or non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: round_half_to_even(2013),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: round_half_to_even(-4036),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: round_half_to_even(0.8),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: round_half_to_even(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: round_half_to_even(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;)),
+  &quot;v6&quot;: round_half_to_even(double(&quot;-2013.893823748327284&quot;), 2),
+  &quot;v7&quot;: round_half_to_even(2013, 4),
+  &quot;v8&quot;: round_half_to_even(float(&quot;-2013.256&quot;), 5)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 2013, &quot;v2&quot;: -4036, &quot;v3&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v4&quot;: -2013.0, &quot;v5&quot;: -2014.0, &quot;v6&quot;: -2013.89, &quot;v7&quot;: 2013, &quot;v8&quot;: -2013.256 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
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+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="String_Functions"></a><a name="StringFunctions" id="StringFunctions">String Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="concat"></a>concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">concat(string1, string2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a concatenated string from arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string1</tt>: a string value,</li>
+<li><tt>string2</tt>: a string value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a concatenated string from arguments,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">concat(&quot;test &quot;, &quot;driven &quot;, &quot;development&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;test driven development&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="contains"></a>contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">contains(string, substring_to_contain)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> contains the string <tt>substring_to_contain</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the given substring,</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_contain</tt> : a target <tt>string</tt> that might be contained.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains <tt>substring_to_contain</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: contains(&quot;I like x-phone&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: contains(&quot;one&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ends_with"></a>ends_with</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ends_with(string, substring_to_end_with)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> ends with the string <tt>substring_to_end_with</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might end with the given string,</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_end_with</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might be contained as the ending substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains <tt>substring_to_contain</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: ends_with(&quot; love product-b its shortcut_menu is awesome:)&quot;, &quot;:)&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: ends_with(&quot; awsome:)&quot;, &quot;:-)&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="initcap_.28or_title.29"></a>initcap (or title)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">initcap(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> so that the first letter of each word is uppercase and every other letter is lowercase. The function has an alias called &#x201c;title&#x201d;.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the title form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: initcap(&quot;ASTERIXDB is here!&quot;), &quot;v2&quot;: title(&quot;ASTERIXDB is here!&quot;) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;Asterixdb Is Here!&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;Asterixdb Is Here!&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="length"></a>length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">length(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the length of the string <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or <tt>null</tt> that represents the string to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the length of <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">length(&quot;test string&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">11
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="lower"></a>lower</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">lower(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> to its lowercase form.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the lowercase form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">lower(&quot;ASTERIXDB&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;asterixdb&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="ltrim"></a>ltrim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ltrim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all leading characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ltrim(&quot;me like x-phone&quot;, &quot;eml&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like x-phone&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="position"></a>position</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">position(string, string_pattern)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the first position of <tt>string_pattern</tt> within <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first position that <tt>string_pattern</tt> appears within <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0), or -1 if it does not appear,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: position(&quot;ppphonepp&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: position(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 3, &quot;v2&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_contains"></a>regexp_contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_contains(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the strings <tt>string</tt> contains the regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern).</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, returns <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains the pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_contains(&quot;pphonepp&quot;, &quot;p*hone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_contains(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;p+hone&quot;)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_like"></a>regexp_like</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_like(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> exactly matches the regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern).</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> that might be contained,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value, <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> contains the pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_like(&quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;, &quot;.*acast.*&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_like(&quot;acast&quot;, &quot;.*acst.*&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_position"></a>regexp_position</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_position(string, string_pattern[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns first position of the regular expression <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern) within <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during regular expression matching.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first position that the regular expression <tt>string_pattern</tt> appears in <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0), or -1 if it does not appear.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: regexp_position(&quot;pphonepp&quot;, &quot;p*hone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: regexp_position(&quot;hone&quot;, &quot;p+hone&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: -1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="regexp_replace"></a>regexp_replace</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_replace(string, string_pattern, string_replacement[, string_flags])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> matches the given regular expression pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> (a Java regular expression pattern), and replaces the matched pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt> with the new pattern <tt>string_replacement</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might contain the pattern,</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be matched,</li>
+<li><tt>string_replacement</tt> : a pattern <tt>string</tt> to be used as the replacement,</li>
+<li><tt>string_flag</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>string</tt> with flags to be used during replace.
+<ul>
+
+<li>The following modes are enabled with these flags: dotall (s), multiline (m), case_insensitive (i), and comments and whitespace (x).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>Returns a <tt>string</tt> that is obtained after the replacements,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">regexp_replace(&quot; like x-phone the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;, &quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;like product-a&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;like product-a the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="repeat"></a>repeat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">repeat(string, n)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a string formed by repeating the input <tt>string</tt> <tt>n</tt> times.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be repeated,</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> : an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value - how many times the string should be repeated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a string that repeats the input <tt>string</tt> <tt>n</tt> times,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">repeat(&quot;test&quot;, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;testtesttest&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="replace"></a>replace</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">replace(string, search_string, replacement_string[, limit])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds occurrences of the given substring <tt>search_string</tt> in the input string <tt>string</tt> and replaces them with the new substring <tt>replacement_string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : an input <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>search_string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt>  substring to be searched for,</li>
+<li><tt>replacement_string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be used as the replacement,</li>
+<li><tt>limit</tt> : (Optional) an <tt>integer</tt> - maximum number of occurrences to be replaced. If not specified then all occurrences will be replaced</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>Returns a <tt>string</tt> that is obtained after the replacements,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value or non-integer <tt>limit</tt> will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: replace(&quot; like x-phone the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;, &quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;like product-a&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: replace(&quot;x-phone and x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;, &quot;product-a&quot;, 1)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;like product-a the voicemail_service is awesome&quot;,
+  &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;product-a and x-phone&quot;
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="rtrim"></a>rtrim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">rtrim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all trailing characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: rtrim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: rtrim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;onexph&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;i like &quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;i like &quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="split"></a>split</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">split(string, sep)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Splits the input <tt>string</tt> into an array of substrings separated by the string <tt>sep</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be split.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array of substrings by splitting the input <tt>string</tt> by <tt>sep</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">split(&quot;test driven development&quot;, &quot; &quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;test&quot;, &quot;driven&quot;, &quot;development&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="starts_with"></a>starts_with</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">starts_with(string, substring_to_start_with)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the string <tt>string</tt> starts with the string <tt>substring_to_start_with</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might start with the given string.</li>
+<li><tt>substring_to_start_with</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that might be contained as the starting substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, returns <tt>true</tt> if <tt>string</tt> starts with the string <tt>substring_to_start_with</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li><tt>false</tt> otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot; : starts_with(&quot; like the plan, amazing&quot;, &quot; like&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot; : starts_with(&quot;I like the plan, amazing&quot;, &quot; like&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substr"></a>substr</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substr(string, offset[, length])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> based on the given start offset <tt>offset</tt> with the optional <tt>length</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>offset</tt> : an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value as the starting offset of the substring in <tt>string</tt> (starting at 0),</li>
+<li><tt>length</tt> : (Optional) an an <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value as the length of the substring.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is not a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> if the argument is present.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substr(&quot;test string&quot;, 6, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;str&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="trim"></a>trim</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trim(string[, chars]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns a new string with all leading characters that appear in <tt>chars</tt> removed. By default, white space is the character to trim.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be trimmed,</li>
+<li><tt>chars</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that contains characters that are used to trim.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a trimmed, new <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">trim(&quot;i like x-phone&quot;, &quot;xphoen&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like &quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="upper"></a>upper</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">upper(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts a given string <tt>string</tt> to its uppercase form.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> as the uppercase form of the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">upper(&quot;hello&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;HELLO&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_concat"></a>string_concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_concat(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Concatenates an array of strings <tt>array</tt> into a single string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of <tt>string</tt>s (could be <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>) to be concatenated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the concatenated <tt>string</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_concat([&quot;ASTERIX&quot;, &quot; &quot;, &quot;ROCKS!&quot;]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;ASTERIX ROCKS!&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_join"></a>string_join</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_join(array, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Joins an array or multiset of strings <tt>array</tt> with the given separator <tt>string</tt> into a single string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of strings (could be <tt>null</tt>) to be joined.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to serve as the separator.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the joined <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the first argument array contains a <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the first argument array contains a <tt>null</tt> but does not contain a <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-array value, or contains any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_join([&quot;ASTERIX&quot;, &quot;ROCKS~&quot;], &quot;!! &quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;ASTERIX!! ROCKS~&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="string_to_codepoint"></a>string_to_codepoint</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_to_codepoint(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts the string <tt>string</tt> to its code_based representation.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that will be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of the code points for the string <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">string_to_codepoint(&quot;Hello ASTERIX!&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 65, 83, 84, 69, 82, 73, 88, 33 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="codepoint_to_string"></a>codepoint_to_string</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">codepoint_to_string(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts the ordered code_based representation <tt>array</tt> to the corresponding string.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> of integer code_points.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> representation of <tt>array</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">codepoint_to_string([72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 65, 83, 84, 69, 82, 73, 88, 33]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;Hello ASTERIX!&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substring_before"></a>substring_before</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_before(string, string_pattern)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> before the given pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted.</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> pattern to be searched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_before(&quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;x-phone&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot; like &quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="substring_after"></a>substring_after</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>substring_after(string, string_pattern);</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the substring from the given string <tt>string</tt> after the given pattern <tt>string_pattern</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> to be extracted.</li>
+<li><tt>string_pattern</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> pattern to be searched.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the substring,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">substring_after(&quot; like x-phone&quot;, &quot;xph&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;one&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Binary_Functions"></a><a name="BinaryFunctions" id="BinaryFunctions">Binary Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="parse_binary"></a>parse_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>parse_binary(string, encoding)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>binary</tt> from an string encoded in <tt>encoding</tt> format.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : an encoded <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>encoding</tt> : a string notation specifies the encoding type of the given <tt>string</tt>. Currently we support <tt>hex</tt> and <tt>base64</tt> format.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>binary</tt> that is decoded from the given <tt>string</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+<p>[ parse_binary(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;,&#x201c;hex&#x201d;), parse_binary(&#x201c;abcdef0123456789&#x201d;,&#x201c;HEX&#x201d;), parse_binary(&#x2018;QXN0ZXJpeAE=&#x2019;,&#x201c;base64&#x201d;) ];</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>[ hex(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;), hex(&#x201c;ABCDEF0123456789&#x201d;), hex(&#x201c;4173746572697801&#x201d;) ]</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="print_binary"></a>print_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>print_binary(binary, encoding)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Prints a <tt>binary</tt> to the required encoding <tt>string</tt> format.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> data need to be printed.</li>
+<li><tt>encoding</tt> : a string notation specifies the expected encoding type. Currently we support <tt>hex</tt> and <tt>base64</tt> format.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> that represents the encoded format of a <tt>binary</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ print_binary(hex(&quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot;), &quot;base64&quot;), print_binary(base64(&quot;q83vASNFZ4k=&quot;), &quot;hex&quot;) ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result are:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;q83vASNFZ4k=&quot;, &quot;ABCDEF0123456789&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="binary_length"></a>binary_length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>binary_length(binary)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the number of bytes storing the binary data.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> value to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the number of bytes,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-binary input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">binary_length(hex(&quot;00AA&quot;))
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>2</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="sub_binary"></a>sub_binary</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>sub_binary(binary, offset[, length])</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the sub binary from the given <tt>binary</tt> based on the given start offset with the optional <tt>length</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>binary</tt> : a <tt>binary</tt> to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>offset</tt> : a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> value as the starting offset of the sub binary in <tt>binary</tt> (starting at 0),</li>
+<li><tt>length</tt> : (Optional) a <tt>tinyint</tt>, <tt>smallint</tt>, <tt>integer</tt>, or <tt>bigint</tt> value as the length of the sub binary.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>binary</tt> that represents the sub binary,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-binary value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-integer value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-integer value, if it is present.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">sub_binary(hex(&quot;AABBCCDD&quot;), 4);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">hex(&quot;DD&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="binary_concat"></a>binary_concat</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>binary_concat(array)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Concatenates a binary <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> into a single binary.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> of binaries (could be <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>) to be concatenated.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value  :
+<ul>
+
+<li>the concatenated <tt>binary</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-binary element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+<p>binary_concat([hex(&#x201c;42&#x201d;), hex(&quot;&quot;), hex(&#x2018;42&#x2019;)]);</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is</p>
+<p>hex(&#x201c;4242&#x201d;)</p>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Spatial_Functions"></a><a name="SpatialFunctions" id="SpatialFunctions">Spatial Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_point"></a>create_point</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_point(x, y)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>point</tt> using an <tt>x</tt> and <tt>y</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>x</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the x-coordinate,</li>
+<li><tt>y</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the y-coordinate.</li>
+<li>Return Value:</li>
+<li>a <tt>point</tt> representing the ordered pair (<tt>x</tt>, <tt>y</tt>),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-double input value will cause a type error.</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;point&quot;: create_point(30.0,70.0) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;point&quot;: point(&quot;30.0,70.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_line"></a>create_line</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_line(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>line</tt> using <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the start point of the line.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the end point of the line.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>line</tt> created using the points provided in <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;line&quot;: create_line(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(50.0,90.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;line&quot;: line(&quot;30.0,70.0 50.0,90.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_rectangle"></a>create_rectangle</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_rectangle(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>rectangle</tt> using <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the lower_left point of the rectangle.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the upper_right point of the rectangle.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>rectangle</tt> created using the points provided in <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;rectangle&quot;: create_rectangle(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(50.0,90.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;rectangle&quot;: rectangle(&quot;30.0,70.0 50.0,90.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_circle"></a>create_circle</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_circle(point, radius)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>circle</tt> using <tt>point</tt> and <tt>radius</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> that represents the center of the circle.</li>
+<li><tt>radius</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the radius of the circle.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a spatial <tt>circle</tt> created using the center point and the radius provided in <tt>point</tt> and <tt>radius</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-point value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle&quot;: create_circle(create_point(30.0,70.0), 5.0) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle&quot;: circle(&quot;30.0,70.0 5.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="create_polygon"></a>create_polygon</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">create_polygon(array)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates the primitive type <tt>polygon</tt> using the double values provided in the argument <tt>array</tt>. Each two consecutive double values represent a point starting from the first double value in the array. Note that at least six double values should be specified, meaning a total of three points.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an array of doubles representing the points of the polygon.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>polygon</tt>, represents a spatial simple polygon created using the points provided in <tt>array</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in the input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-double element in the input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;polygon&quot;: create_polygon([1.0,1.0,2.0,2.0,3.0,3.0,4.0,4.0]) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;polygon&quot;: polygon(&quot;1.0,1.0 2.0,2.0 3.0,3.0 4.0,4.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_x.2Fget_y"></a>get_x/get_y</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_x(point) or get_y(point)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the x or y coordinates of a point <tt>point</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> representing the x or y coordinates of the point <tt>point</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;x_coordinate&quot;: get_x(create_point(2.3,5.0)), &quot;y_coordinate&quot;: get_y(create_point(2.3,5.0)) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;x_coordinate&quot;: 2.3, &quot;y_coordinate&quot;: 5.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_points"></a>get_points</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_points(spatial_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an ordered array of the points forming the spatial object <tt>spatial_object</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_object</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of the points forming the spatial object <tt>spatial_object</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-spatial-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_points(create_polygon([1.0,1.0,2.0,2.0,3.0,3.0,4.0,4.0]))
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ point(&quot;1.0,1.0&quot;), point(&quot;2.0,2.0&quot;), point(&quot;3.0,3.0&quot;), point(&quot;4.0,4.0&quot;) ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_center.2Fget_radius"></a>get_center/get_radius</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_center(circle_expression) or get_radius(circle_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the center and the radius of a circle <tt>circle_expression</tt>, respectively.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>circle_expression</tt> : a <tt>circle</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>point</tt> or <tt>double</tt>, represent the center or radius of the circle <tt>circle_expression</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-circle input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;circle_radius&quot;: get_radius(create_circle(create_point(6.0,3.0), 1.0)),
+  &quot;circle_center&quot;: get_center(create_circle(create_point(6.0,3.0), 1.0))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;circle_radius&quot;: 1.0, &quot;circle_center&quot;: point(&quot;6.0,3.0&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_distance"></a>spatial_distance</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_distance(point1, point2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the Euclidean distance between <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> as the Euclidean distance between <tt>point1</tt> and <tt>point2</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-point input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_distance(point(&quot;47.44,80.65&quot;), create_point(30.0,70.0));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">20.434678857275934
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_area"></a>spatial_area</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_area(spatial_2d_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the spatial area of <tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt> : a <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> representing the area of <tt>spatial_2d_expression</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-2d-spatial-object will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_area(create_circle(create_point(0.0,0.0), 5.0));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">78.53981625
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_intersect"></a>spatial_intersect</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_intersect(spatial_object1, spatial_object2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>@arg1</tt> and <tt>@arg2</tt> spatially intersect each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>spatial_object1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>spatial_object2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt>, <tt>line</tt>, <tt>rectangle</tt>, <tt>circle</tt>, or <tt>polygon</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> representing whether <tt>spatial_object1</tt> and <tt>spatial_object2</tt> spatially overlap with each other,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-spatial-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_intersect(point(&quot;39.28,70.48&quot;), create_rectangle(create_point(30.0,70.0), create_point(40.0,80.0)));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">true
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="spatial_cell"></a>spatial_cell</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_cell(point1, point2, x_increment, y_increment)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the grid cell that <tt>point1</tt> belongs to.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>point1</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> representing the point of interest that its grid cell will be returned.</li>
+<li><tt>point2</tt> : a <tt>point</tt> representing the origin of the grid.</li>
+<li><tt>x_increment</tt> : a <tt>double</tt>, represents X increments.</li>
+<li><tt>y_increment</tt> : a <tt>double</tt>, represents Y increments.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>rectangle</tt> representing the grid cell that <tt>point1</tt> belongs to,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-point value,</li>
+<li>or, the second or third argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">spatial_cell(point(&quot;39.28,70.48&quot;), create_point(20.0,50.0), 5.5, 6.0);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">rectangle(&quot;36.5,68.0 42.0,74.0&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Similarity_Functions"></a><a name="SimilarityFunctions" id="SimilarityFunctions">Similarity Functions</a></h2>
+<p>AsterixDB supports queries with different similarity functions, including <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance">edit distance</a> and <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard</a>.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance"></a>edit_distance</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance(expression1, expression2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the edit distance between <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance(&quot;SuzannaTillson&quot;, &quot;Suzanna Tilson&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">2
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance_check"></a>edit_distance_check</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_check(expression1, expression2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> is within a given threshold.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the distance threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> is within the given threshold.</li>
+<li>The second item contains an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the edit distance of <tt>expression1</tt> and <tt>expression2</tt> if the first item is true.</li>
+<li>If the first item is false, then the second item is set to 2147483647.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_check(&quot;happy&quot;,&quot;hapr&quot;,2);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ true, 2 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="edit_distance_contains"></a>edit_distance_contains</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_contains(expression1, expression2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>expression1</tt> contains <tt>expression2</tt> with an <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance">edit distance</a> within a given threshold.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expression1</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> or a homogeneous <tt>array</tt> of a comparable item type.</li>
+<li><tt>expression2</tt> : The same type as <tt>expression1</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> that represents the distance threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether <tt>expression1</tt> can contain <tt>expression2</tt>.</li>
+<li>The second item contains an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the required edit distance for <tt>expression1</tt> to contain <tt>expression2</tt> if the first item is true.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-string value,</li>
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-bigint value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Note: an <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">n_gram index</a> can be utilized for this function.</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">edit_distance_contains(&quot;happy&quot;,&quot;hapr&quot;,2);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ true, 1 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="similarity_jaccard"></a>similarity_jaccard</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard(array1, array2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard similarity</a> of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array1</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>array2</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>float</tt> that represents the Jaccard similarity of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array input value or non-integer element in any input array will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: a <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">keyword index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard([1,5,8,9], [1,5,9,10]);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0.6
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="similarity_jaccard_check"></a>similarity_jaccard_check</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard_check(array1, array2, threshold)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> have a <a class="externalLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index">Jaccard similarity</a> greater than or equal to threshold.  Again, the &#x201c;check&#x201d; version of Jaccard is faster than the &#x201c;non_check&#x201d; version.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Arguments:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array1</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>array2</tt> : an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>threshold</tt> : a <tt>double</tt> that represents the similarity threshold.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> with two items:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The first item contains a <tt>boolean</tt> value representing whether <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> are similar.</li>
+<li>The second item contains a <tt>float</tt> that represents the Jaccard similarity of <tt>array1</tt> and <tt>array2</tt> if it is greater than or equal to the threshold, or 0 otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any element in any input array is <tt>null</tt> but no element in the input array is <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first or second argument is any other non-array value,
+<ul>
+
+<li>or, the third argument is any other non-double value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Note: a <a href="similarity.html#UsingIndexesToSupportSimilarityQueries">keyword index</a> can be utilized for this function.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">similarity_jaccard_check([1,5,8,9], [1,5,9,10], 0.6);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ false, 0.0 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Tokenizing_Functions"></a><a name="TokenizingFunctions" id="TokenizingFunctions">Tokenizing Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="word_tokens"></a>word_tokens</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">word_tokens(string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an array of word tokens of <tt>string</tt> using non_alphanumeric characters as delimiters.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> that will be tokenized.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> of <tt>string</tt> word tokens,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-string input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">word_tokens(&quot;I like the phone, awesome!&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;i&quot;, &quot;like&quot;, &quot;the&quot;, &quot;phone&quot;, &quot;awesome&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
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+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
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+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Temporal_Functions"></a><a name="TemporalFunctions" id="TemporalFunctions">Temporal Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_year.2Fget_month.2Fget_day.2Fget_hour.2Fget_minute.2Fget_second.2Fget_millisecond"></a>get_year/get_month/get_day/get_hour/get_minute/get_second/get_millisecond</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year/get_month/get_day/get_hour/get_minute/get_second/get_millisecond(temporal_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Accessors for accessing fields in a temporal value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>temporal_value</tt> : a temporal value represented as one of the following types: <tt>date</tt>, <tt>datetime</tt>, <tt>time</tt>, and <tt>duration</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the field to be extracted,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;year&quot;: get_year(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;)),
+  &quot;month&quot;: get_month(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;)),
+  &quot;day&quot;: get_day(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;)),
+  &quot;hour&quot;: get_hour(time(&quot;12:23:34.930+07:00&quot;)),
+  &quot;min&quot;: get_minute(duration(&quot;P3Y73M632DT49H743M3948.94S&quot;)),
+  &quot;second&quot;: get_second(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;)),
+  &quot;ms&quot;: get_millisecond(duration(&quot;P3Y73M632DT49H743M3948.94S&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;year&quot;: 2010, &quot;month&quot;: 11, &quot;day&quot;: 30, &quot;hour&quot;: 5, &quot;min&quot;: 28, &quot;second&quot;: 23, &quot;ms&quot;: 94 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="adjust_datetime_for_timezone"></a>adjust_datetime_for_timezone</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_datetime_for_timezone(datetime, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Adjusts the given datetime <tt>datetime</tt> by applying the timezone information <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be adjusted.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the timezone information.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value representing the new datetime after being adjusted by the timezone information,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_datetime_for_timezone(datetime(&quot;2008-04-26T10:10:00&quot;), &quot;+08:00&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;2008-04-26T18:10:00.000+08:00&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="adjust_time_for_timezone"></a>adjust_time_for_timezone</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_time_for_timezone(time, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Adjusts the given time <tt>time</tt> by applying the timezone information <tt>string</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time</tt> : a <tt>time</tt> value to be adjusted.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the timezone information.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value representing the new time after being adjusted by the timezone information,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-time value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">adjust_time_for_timezone(get_time_from_datetime(datetime(&quot;2008-04-26T10:10:00&quot;)), &quot;+08:00&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;18:10:00.000+08:00&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="calendar_duration_from_datetime"></a>calendar_duration_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">calendar_duration_from_datetime(datetime, duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a user_friendly representation of the duration <tt>duration_value</tt> based on the given datetime <tt>datetime</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be used as the reference time point.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> value to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> value with the duration as <tt>duration_value</tt> but with a user_friendly representation,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-duration input value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">calendar_duration_from_datetime(
+      datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;),
+      datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;) - datetime(&quot;2011-01-01T00:00:00&quot;)
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration(&quot;P5Y2M24DT10H10M&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_year_month_duration.2Fget_day_time_duration"></a>get_year_month_duration/get_day_time_duration</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year_month_duration/get_day_time_duration(duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Extracts the correct <tt>duration</tt> subtype from <tt>duration_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> value to be converted.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>year_month_duration</tt> value or a <tt>day_time_duration</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_year_month_duration(duration(&quot;P12M50DT10H&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">year_month_duration(&quot;P1Y&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="months_from_year_month_duration.2Fmilliseconds_from_day_time_duration"></a>months_from_year_month_duration/milliseconds_from_day_time_duration</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">months_from_year_month_duration/milliseconds_from_day_time_duration(duration_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Extracts the number of months or the number of milliseconds from the <tt>duration</tt> subtype.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>duration_value</tt> : a <tt>duration</tt> of the correct subtype.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>bigint</tt> representing the number or months/milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">months_from_year_month_duration(get_year_month_duration(duration(&quot;P5Y7MT50M&quot;)));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">67
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="duration_from_months.2Fduration_from_ms"></a>duration_from_months/duration_from_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_months/duration_from_ms(number_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>duration</tt> from <tt>number_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>number_value</tt> : a <tt>bigint</tt> representing the number of months/milliseconds</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> containing <tt>number_value</tt> value for months/milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_months(8);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration(&quot;P8M&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="duration_from_interval"></a>duration_from_interval</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">duration_from_interval(interval_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>duration</tt> from <tt>interval_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval_value</tt> : an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>duration</tt> representing the time in the <tt>interval_value</tt></li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-duration input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;dr1&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;), date(&quot;2010-12-21&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr2&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;2012-06-26T01:01:01.111&quot;), datetime(&quot;2012-07-27T02:02:02.222&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr3&quot; : duration_from_interval(interval(time(&quot;12:32:38&quot;), time(&quot;20:29:20&quot;))),
+  &quot;dr4&quot; : duration_from_interval(null)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;dr1&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;P52D&quot;),
+  &quot;dr2&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;P31DT1H1M1.111S&quot;),
+  &quot;dr3&quot;: day_time_duration(&quot;PT7H56M42S&quot;),
+  &quot;dr4&quot;: null
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_date"></a>current_date</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_date()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the current date.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value of the date when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_time"></a>current_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_time()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the current time</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value of the time when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="current_datetime"></a>current_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">current_datetime()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the current datetime</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments: None</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value of the datetime when the function is called.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_date_from_datetime"></a>get_date_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_date_from_datetime(datetime)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the date value from the given datetime value <tt>datetime</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt>: a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be extracted from.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value from the datetime,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_time_from_datetime"></a>get_time_from_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_time_from_datetime(datetime)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Get the time value from the given datetime value <tt>datetime</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime</tt>: a <tt>datetime</tt> value to be extracted from.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value from the datetime.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_time_from_datetime(datetime(&quot;2016-03-26T10:10:00&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time(&quot;10:10:00.000Z&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="day_of_week"></a>day_of_week</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">day_of_week(date)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds the day of the week for a given date (1_7)</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value (Can also be a <tt>datetime</tt>)</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>tinyint</tt> representing the day of the week (1_7),</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-date input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">day_of_week(datetime(&quot;2012-12-30T12:12:12.039Z&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">7
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="date_from_unix_time_in_days"></a>date_from_unix_time_in_days</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">date_from_unix_time_in_days(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a date representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> days since 1970_01_01.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of days.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> days since 1970-01-01,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms"></a>datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a datetime representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs"></a>datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">datetime_from_unix_time_in_secs(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a datetime representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of seconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="datetime_from_date_time"></a>datetime_from_date_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Syntax:</li>
+</ul>
+<p>datetime_from_date_time(date,time)</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Gets a datetime representing the combination of <tt>date</tt> and <tt>time</tt>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>time</tt> a <tt>time</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>datetime</tt> value by combining <tt>date</tt> and <tt>time</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-time value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="time_from_unix_time_in_ms"></a>time_from_unix_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time_from_unix_time_in_ms(numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets a time representing the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt> value as the time after <tt>numeric_value</tt> milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;date&quot;: date_from_unix_time_in_days(15800),
+  &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(1365139700000),
+  &quot;time&quot;: time_from_unix_time_in_ms(3748)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;date&quot;: date(&quot;2013-04-05&quot;), &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-04-05T05:28:20.000Z&quot;), &quot;time&quot;: time(&quot;00:00:03.748Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_date_in_days"></a>unix_time_from_date_in_days</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_date_in_days(date_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the number of days since 1970_01_01 for <tt>date_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date_value</tt>: a <tt>date</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of days,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-date input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms"></a>unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_datetime_in_ms(datetime_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time in milliseconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z for <tt>datetime_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime_value</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs"></a>unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_datetime_in_secs(datetime_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time in seconds since 1970_01_01T00:00:00Z for <tt>datetime_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>datetime_value</tt> : a <tt>datetime</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of seconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="unix_time_from_time_in_ms"></a>unix_time_from_time_in_ms</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">unix_time_from_time_in_ms(time_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets an integer value representing the time the milliseconds since 00:00:00.000Z for <tt>time_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time_value</tt> : a <tt>time</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of milliseconds,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-datetime input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;date&quot;: date_from_unix_time_in_days(15800),
+  &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime_from_unix_time_in_ms(1365139700000),
+  &quot;time&quot;: time_from_unix_time_in_ms(3748)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;date&quot;: date(&quot;2013-04-05&quot;), &quot;datetime&quot;: datetime(&quot;2013-04-05T05:28:20.000Z&quot;), &quot;time&quot;: time(&quot;00:00:03.748Z&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="parse_date.2Fparse_time.2Fparse_datetime"></a>parse_date/parse_time/parse_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Syntax:</li>
+</ul>
+<p>parse_date/parse_time/parse_datetime(date,formatting_expression)</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Creates a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value by treating <tt>date</tt> with formatting <tt>formatting_expression</tt></li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> value representing the <tt>date/time/datetime</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>formatting_expression</tt> a <tt>string</tt> value providing the formatting for <tt>date_expression</tt>.Characters used to create date expression:</li>
+<li><tt>h</tt> hours</li>
+<li><tt>m</tt> minutes</li>
+<li><tt>s</tt> seconds</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> milliseconds</li>
+<li><tt>a</tt> am/pm</li>
+<li><tt>z</tt> timezone</li>
+<li><tt>Y</tt> year</li>
+<li><tt>M</tt> month</li>
+<li><tt>D</tt> day</li>
+<li><tt>W</tt> weekday</li>
+<li><tt>_</tt>, <tt>'</tt>, <tt>/</tt>, <tt>.</tt>, <tt>,</tt>, <tt>T</tt> seperators for both time and date</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value corresponding to <tt>date</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:</li>
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">parse_time(&quot;30:30&quot;,&quot;m:s&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">time(&quot;00:30:30.000Z&quot;)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="print_date.2Fprint_time.2Fprint_datetime"></a>print_date/print_time/print_datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">print_date/print_time/print_datetime(date,formatting_expression)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Creates a <tt>string</tt> representing a <tt>date/time/date_time</tt> value of the <tt>date</tt> using the formatting <tt>formatting_expression</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date</tt>: a <tt>date/time/datetime</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>formatting_expression</tt> a <tt>string</tt> value providing the formatting for <tt>date_expression</tt>. Characters used to create date expression:</li>
+<li><tt>h</tt> hours</li>
+<li><tt>m</tt> minutes</li>
+<li><tt>s</tt> seconds</li>
+<li><tt>n</tt> milliseconds</li>
+<li><tt>a</tt> am/pm</li>
+<li><tt>z</tt> timezone</li>
+<li><tt>Y</tt> year</li>
+<li><tt>M</tt> month</li>
+<li><tt>D</tt> day</li>
+<li><tt>W</tt> weekday</li>
+<li><tt>_</tt>, <tt>'</tt>, <tt>/</tt>, <tt>.</tt>, <tt>,</tt>, <tt>T</tt> seperators for both time and date</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>string</tt> value corresponding to <tt>date</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-date value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">print_time(time(&quot;00:30:30.000Z&quot;),&quot;m:s&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;30:30&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_interval_start.2C_get_interval_end"></a>get_interval_start, get_interval_end</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_interval_start/get_interval_end(interval)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: the interval to be accessed.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt>, <tt>date</tt>, or <tt>datetime</tt> (depending on the time instances of the interval) representing the starting or ending time,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start&quot;: get_interval_start(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;end&quot;: get_interval_end(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;start&quot;: date(&quot;1984_01_01&quot;), &quot;end&quot;: date(&quot;1985_01_01&quot;) }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_interval_start_date.2Fget_interval_start_datetimeget_interval_start_time.2C_get_interval_end_date.2Fget_interval_end_datetime.2Fget_interval_end_time"></a>get_interval_start_date/get_interval_start_datetimeget_interval_start_time, get_interval_end_date/get_interval_end_datetime/get_interval_end_time</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_interval_start_date/get_interval_start_datetime/get_interval_start_time/get_interval_end_date/get_interval_end_datetime/get_interval_end_time(interval)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval for the specific date/datetime/time type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: the interval to be accessed.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>time</tt>, <tt>date</tt>, or <tt>datetime</tt> (depending on the function) representing the starting or ending time,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start1&quot;: get_interval_start_date(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;end1&quot;: get_interval_end_date(interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;start2&quot;: get_interval_start_datetime(interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1Y1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;end2&quot;: get_interval_end_datetime(interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1Y1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;start3&quot;: get_interval_start_time(interval_start_from_time(&quot;08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1H&quot;)),
+  &quot;end3&quot;: get_interval_end_time(interval_start_from_time(&quot;08:30:00.000&quot;, &quot;P1H&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;start1&quot;: date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;),
+  &quot;end1&quot;: date(&quot;1985-01-01&quot;),
+  &quot;start2&quot;: datetime(&quot;1984-01-01T08:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;end2&quot;: datetime(&quot;1985-01-01T09:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;start3&quot;: time(&quot;08:30:00.000Z&quot;),
+  &quot;end3&quot;: time(&quot;09:30:00.000Z&quot;)
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_overlapping_interval"></a>get_overlapping_interval</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_overlapping_interval(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the start/end of the given interval for the specific date/datetime/time type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>interval2</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>interval</tt> that is overlapping <tt>interval1</tt> and <tt>interval2</tt>. If <tt>interval1</tt> and <tt>interval2</tt> do not overlap <tt>null</tt> is returned. Note each interval must be of the same type.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlap1&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(time(&quot;11:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19&quot;)), interval(time(&quot;12:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;23:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap2&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(time(&quot;12:23:39&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19&quot;)), interval(time(&quot;07:19:39&quot;), time(&quot;09:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap3&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(date(&quot;1980-11-30&quot;), date(&quot;1999-09-09&quot;)), interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap4&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(date(&quot;1980-11-30&quot;), date(&quot;2099-09-09&quot;)), interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap5&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;1844-03-03T11:19:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19&quot;)), interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2009-10-10T23:18:00&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlap6&quot;: get_overlapping_interval(interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19&quot;)), interval(datetime(&quot;1844-03-03T11:19:39&quot;), datetime(&quot;1888-10-10T23:18:00&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlap1&quot;: interval(time(&quot;12:23:39.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:27:19.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap2&quot;: null,
+  &quot;overlap3&quot;: null,
+  &quot;overlap4&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2013-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2014_01_01&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap5&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1989-03-04T12:23:39.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-10-30T18:27:19.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;overlap6&quot;: null
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_bin"></a>interval_bin</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_bin(time_to_bin, time_bin_anchor, duration_bin_size)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>time_to_bin</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing the time to be binned.</li>
+<li><tt>time_bin_anchor</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing an anchor of a bin starts. The type of this argument should be the same as the first <tt>time_to_bin</tt> argument.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_bin_size</tt>: the duration value representing the size of the bin, in the type of year_month_duration or day_time_duration. The type of this duration should be compatible with the type of <tt>time_to_bin</tt>, so that the arithmetic operation between <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt> is well_defined. Currently AsterixDB supports the following arithmetic operations:
+<ul>
+
+<li>datetime +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>datetime +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>time +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value. Note that the internal type of this interval value should be the same as the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> type,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument or the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-year_month_duration/non-day_time_duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;bin1&quot;: interval_bin(date(&quot;2010-10-30&quot;), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P1Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin2&quot;: interval_bin(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;1990-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P6M&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin3&quot;: interval_bin(time(&quot;12:23:34.930+07:00&quot;), time(&quot;00:00:00&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT1M&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin4&quot;: interval_bin(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T23:49:23.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;2013-01-01T00:00:00.000&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT24H&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;bin1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;),date(&quot;2011-01-01&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin2&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1987-07-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1988-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin3&quot;: interval(time(&quot;05:23:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;05:24:00.000Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;bin4&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1987-11-19T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1987-11-20T00:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_start_from_date.2Ftime.2Fdatetime"></a>interval_start_from_date/time/datetime</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_start_from_date/time/datetime(date/time/datetime, duration)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Construct an <tt>interval</tt> value by the given starting <tt>date</tt>/<tt>time</tt>/<tt>datetime</tt> and the <tt>duration</tt> that the interval lasts.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>date/time/datetime</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> representing a <tt>date</tt>, <tt>time</tt> or <tt>datetime</tt>, or a <tt>date</tt>/<tt>time</tt>/<tt>datetime</tt> value, representing the starting time point.</li>
+<li><tt>duration</tt>: a <tt>string</tt> or <tt>duration</tt> value representing the duration of the interval. Note that duration cannot be negative value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>interval</tt> value representing the interval starting from the given time point with the length of duration,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument or the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval1&quot;: interval_start_from_date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;, &quot;P1Y&quot;),
+  &quot;interval2&quot;: interval_start_from_time(time(&quot;02:23:28.394&quot;), &quot;PT3H24M&quot;),
+  &quot;interval3&quot;: interval_start_from_datetime(&quot;1999-09-09T09:09:09.999&quot;, duration(&quot;P2M30D&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expectecd result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval1&quot;: interval(date(&quot;1984-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;1985-01-01&quot;)),
+  &quot;interval2&quot;: interval(time(&quot;02:23:28.394Z&quot;), time(&quot;05:47:28.394Z&quot;)),
+  &quot;interval3&quot;: interval(datetime(&quot;1999-09-09T09:09:09.999Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1999-12-09T09:09:09.999Z&quot;))
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="overlap_bins"></a>overlap_bins</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Return Value:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>interval</tt> value representing the bin containing the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> value. Note that the internal type of this interval value should be the same as the <tt>time_to_bin</tt> type.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">overlap_bins(interval, time_bin_anchor, duration_bin_size)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns an ordered list of <tt>interval</tt> values representing each bin that is overlapping the <tt>interval</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval</tt>: an <tt>interval</tt> value</li>
+<li><tt>time_bin_anchor</tt>: a date/time/datetime value representing an anchor of a bin starts. The type of this argument should be the same as the first <tt>time_to_bin</tt> argument.</li>
+<li><tt>duration_bin_size</tt>: the duration value representing the size of the bin, in the type of year_month_duration or day_time_duration. The type of this duration should be compatible with the type of <tt>time_to_bin</tt>, so that the arithmetic operation between <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt> is well_defined. Currently AsterixDB supports the following arithmetic operations:
+<ul>
+
+<li>datetime +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>datetime +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ year_month_duration</li>
+<li>date +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+<li>time +|_ day_time_duration</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a ordered list of <tt>interval</tt> values representing each bin that is overlapping the <tt>interval</tt>. Note that the internal type as <tt>time_to_bin</tt> and <tt>duration_bin_size</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first arugment is any other non-interval value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-date/non-time/non-datetime value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-year_month_duration/non-day_time_duration value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;timebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(time(&quot;17:23:37&quot;), time(&quot;18:30:21&quot;)), time(&quot;00:00:00&quot;), day_time_duration(&quot;PT30M&quot;)),
+  &quot;datebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(date(&quot;1984-03-17&quot;), date(&quot;2013-08-22&quot;)), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P10Y&quot;)),
+  &quot;datetimebins&quot;: overlap_bins(interval(datetime(&quot;1800-01-01T23:59:48.938&quot;), datetime(&quot;2015-07-26T13:28:30.218&quot;)),
+                              datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000&quot;), year_month_duration(&quot;P100Y&quot;))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;timebins&quot;: [
+                interval(time(&quot;17:00:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;17:30:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;17:30:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;18:00:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;18:30:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                interval(time(&quot;18:30:00.000Z&quot;), time(&quot;19:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+              ],
+  &quot;datebins&quot;: [
+                interval(date(&quot;1980-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;1990-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;)),
+                interval(date(&quot;2010-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2020-01-01&quot;))
+              ],
+  &quot;datetimebins&quot;: [
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;1800-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;1900-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;)),
+                    interval(datetime(&quot;2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;), datetime(&quot;2100-01-01T00:00:00.000Z&quot;))
+                   ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_before.2C_interval_after"></a>interval_before, interval_after</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_before(interval1, interval2)
+interval_after(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether an interval happens before/after another interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_before(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.end &lt; interval2.start</tt>, and <tt>interval_after(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.start &gt; interval2.end</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_before&quot;: interval_before(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2005-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_after&quot;: interval_after(interval(date(&quot;2005-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;)),
+                                   interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_before&quot;: true, &quot;interval_after&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_covers.2C_interval_covered_by"></a>interval_covers, interval_covered_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_covers(interval1, interval2)
+interval_covered_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval covers the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_covers(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval1.start &lt;= interval2.start AND interval1.end &gt;= interval2.end</p>
+<p><tt>interval_covered_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval2.start &lt;= interval1.start AND interval2.end &gt;= interval1.end</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_covers&quot;: interval_covers(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2000-03-01&quot;), date(&quot;2004-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_covered_by&quot;: interval_covered_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                             interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2012-08-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_covers&quot;: true, &quot;interval_covered_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_overlaps.2C_interval_overlapped_by"></a>interval_overlaps, interval_overlapped_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_overlaps(interval1, interval2)
+interval_overlapped_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These functions check whether two intervals overlap with each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_overlaps(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if
+<p>interval1.start &lt; interval2.start AND interval2.end &gt; interval1.end AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.start</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>interval_overlapped_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval2.start &lt; interval1.start
+AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.end
+AND interval2.end &gt; interval1.start
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Note that <tt>interval_overlaps</tt> and <tt>interval_overlapped_by</tt> are following the Allen&#x2019;s relations on the definition of overlap.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;overlaps&quot;: interval_overlaps(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlapped_by&quot;: interval_overlapped_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                          interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlaps&quot;: true, &quot;overlapped_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_overlapping"></a>interval_overlapping</h3>
+<p>Note that <tt>interval_overlapping</tt> is not an Allen&#x2019;s Relation, but syntactic sugar we added for the case that the intersect of two intervals is not empty. Basically this function returns true if any of these functions return true: <tt>interval_overlaps</tt>, <tt>interval_overlapped_by</tt>, <tt>interval_covers</tt>, or <tt>interval_covered_by</tt>.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_overlapping(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>This functions check whether two intervals share any points with each other.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_overlapping(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if</p>
+<p>interval1.start &lt; interval2.end AND interval1.end &gt; interval2.start</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;overlapping1&quot;: interval_overlapping(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                       interval(date(&quot;2004-05-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;overlapping2&quot;: interval_overlapping(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                       interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2006-12-31&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;overlapping1&quot;: true, &quot;overlapping2&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_meets.2C_interval_met_by"></a>interval_meets, interval_met_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_meets(interval1, interval2)
+interval_met_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether an interval meets with another interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_meets(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.end = interval2.start</tt>, and <tt>interval_met_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> is true if and only if <tt>interval1.start = interval2.end</tt>. If any of the two inputs is <tt>null</tt>, <tt>null</tt> is returned.</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;meets&quot;: interval_meets(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                          interval(date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;metby&quot;: interval_met_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                           interval(date(&quot;2004-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;meets&quot;: true, &quot;metby&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_starts.2C_interval_started_by"></a>interval_starts, interval_started_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_starts(interval1, interval2)
+interval_started_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval starts with the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_starts(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if
+<p>interval1.start = interval2.start AND interval1.end &lt;= interval2.end</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p><tt>interval_started_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval1.start = interval2.start
+AND interval2.end &lt;= interval1.end
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_starts&quot;: interval_starts(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                     interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2012-09-09&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_started_by&quot;: interval_started_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                             interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2006-08-02&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_starts&quot;: true, &quot;interval_started_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="interval_ends.2C_interval_ended_by"></a>interval_ends, interval_ended_by</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">interval_ends(interval1, interval2)
+interval_ended_by(interval1, interval2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>These two functions check whether one interval ends with the other interval.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>interval1</tt>, <tt>interval2</tt>: two intervals to be compared</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>a <tt>boolean</tt> value. Specifically, <tt>interval_ends(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval1.end = interval2.end AND interval1.start &gt;= interval2.start</p>
+<p><tt>interval_ended_by(interval1, interval2)</tt> returns true if and only if</p>
+<p>interval2.end = interval1.end AND interval2.start &gt;= interval1.start</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</p>
+</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-interval input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Examples:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;interval_ends&quot;: interval_ends(interval(date(&quot;2000-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;)),
+                                 interval(date(&quot;1998-01-01&quot;), date(&quot;2005-01-01&quot;))),
+  &quot;interval_ended_by&quot;: interval_ended_by(interval(date(&quot;2006-08-01&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)),
+                                         interval(date(&quot;2006-09-10&quot;), date(&quot;2007-03-01&quot;)))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;interval_ends&quot;: true, &quot;interval_ended_by&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Object_Functions"></a><a name="ObjectFunctions" id="ObjectFunctions">Object Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_object_fields"></a>get_object_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_fields(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Access the object field names, type and open status for a given object.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array of <tt>object</tt> values that include the field_name <tt>string</tt>, field_type <tt>string</tt>, is_open <tt>boolean</tt> (used for debug purposes only: <tt>true</tt> if field is open and <tt>false</tt> otherwise), and optional nested <tt>orderedList</tt> for the values of a nested object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_fields(
+                  {
+                    &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                    &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                    &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+                    &quot;related&quot;: [&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                  }
+                 );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;id&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;INT64&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;project&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;address&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;RECORD&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false,
+    &quot;nested&quot;: [
+                { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;city&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false },
+                { &quot;field-name&quot;: &quot;state&quot;, &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot;, &quot;is-open&quot;: false }
+              ]
+  },
+  { &quot;field-name&quot;:
+        &quot;related&quot;,
+        &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;ORDEREDLIST&quot;,
+        &quot;is-open&quot;: false,
+        &quot;list&quot;: [
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; },
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; },
+                  { &quot;field-type&quot;: &quot;STRING&quot; }
+                ]
+  }
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>]</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="get_object_field_value"></a>get_object_field_value</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_field_value(input_object, string)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Access the field name given in the <tt>string_expression</tt> from the <tt>object_expression</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a <tt>object</tt> value.</li>
+<li><tt>string</tt> : a <tt>string</tt> representing the top level field name.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>any</tt> value saved in the designated field of the object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-string value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">get_object_field_value({
+                         &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                         &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                         &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+                         &quot;related&quot;: [&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                        },
+                        &quot;project&quot;
+                       );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&quot;AsterixDB&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_remove_fields"></a>object_remove_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_remove_fields(input_object, field_names)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Remove indicated fields from a object given a list of field names.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt>:  a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>field_names</tt>: an array of strings and/or array of array of strings.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Return Value:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value without the fields listed in the second argument,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>or, the second argument is any other non-array value or recursively contains non-string items.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_remove_fields(
+                       {
+                         &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                         &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                         &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                         &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                       },
+                       [[&quot;address&quot;, &quot;city&quot;], &quot;related&quot;]
+                     );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;id&quot;:1,
+  &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+  &quot;address&quot;:{ &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot; }
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_add_fields"></a>object_add_fields</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_add_fields(input_object, fields)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Add fields to a object given a list of field names.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>fields</tt>: an array of field descriptor objects where each object has field_name and  field_value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value with the new fields included,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a type error will be raised if:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the first argument is any other non-object value,</li>
+<li>the second argument is any other non-array value, or contains non-object items.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_add_fields(
+                   {
+                     &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                     &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                     &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                     &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+                    },
+                    [{&quot;field-name&quot;:&quot;employment_location&quot;, &quot;field-value&quot;:create_point(30.0,70.0)}]
+                  );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+   &quot;id&quot;:1,
+   &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+   &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+   &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+   &quot;employment_location&quot;: point(&quot;30.0,70.0&quot;)
+ }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_merge"></a>object_merge</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_merge(object1, object2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Merge two different objects into a new object.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>object1</tt> : a object value.</li>
+<li><tt>object2</tt> : a object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a new object value with fields from both input objects. If a field&#x2019;s names in both objects are the same, an exception is issued,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-object input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_merge(
+              {
+                &quot;id&quot;:1,
+                &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+                &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+              },
+              {
+                &quot;user_id&quot;: 22,
+                &quot;employer&quot;: &quot;UC Irvine&quot;,
+                &quot;employment_type&quot;: &quot;visitor&quot;
+              }
+            );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;employment_type&quot;: &quot;visitor&quot;,
+  &quot;address&quot;: {
+    &quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;,
+    &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;
+  },
+  &quot;related&quot;: [
+    &quot;Hivestrix&quot;,
+    &quot;Preglix&quot;,
+    &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;
+  ],
+  &quot;user_id&quot;: 22,
+  &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+  &quot;employer&quot;: &quot;UC Irvine&quot;,
+  &quot;id&quot;: 1
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_length"></a>object_length</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_length(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns number of top-level fields in the given object</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : an object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an integer that represents the number of top-level fields in the given object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value or any other non-object value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_length(
+               {
+                 &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                 &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                 &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+               }
+             );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="object_names"></a>object_names</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_names(input_object)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns names of top-level fields in the given object</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>input_object</tt> : an object value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array with top-level field names of the given object,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value or any other non-object value</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">object_names(
+               {
+                 &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+                 &quot;project&quot;: &quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+                 &quot;address&quot;: {&quot;city&quot;: &quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;: &quot;CA&quot;},
+               }
+             );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ &quot;id&quot;, &quot;project&quot;, &quot;address&quot; ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
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+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Aggregate_Functions_.28Array_Functions.29"></a><a name="AggregateFunctions" id="AggregateFunctions">Aggregate Functions (Array Functions) </a></h2>
+<p>This section contains detailed descriptions of each SQL++ aggregate function (i.e., array function). Note that as described in the SQL++ query reference documentation, standard SQL aggregate functions (e.g., <tt>MIN</tt>, <tt>MAX</tt>, <tt>SUM</tt>, <tt>COUNT</tt>, and <tt>AVG</tt>) are not real functions in SQL++ but just syntactic sugars over corresponding SQL++ builtin aggregate functions (e.g., <tt>ARRAY_MIN</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_MAX</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_SUM</tt>, <tt>ARRAY_COUNT</tt>, and <tt>ARRAY_AVG</tt>).</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_count"></a>array_count</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_count(collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the number of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> to be counted,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause an error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_count( ['hello', 'world', 1, 2, 3, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">5
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_avg"></a>array_avg</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_avg(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the average value of the non-null and non-missing numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> value representing the average of the non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_avg( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">1.725
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_sum"></a>array_sum</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_sum(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the sum of non-null and non-missing items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sum of the non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_sum( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">6.9
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_sql_min"></a>array_sql_min</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_min(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the min value of non-null and non-missing comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the min value of non-null and non-missing values in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_min( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_max"></a>array_max</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_max(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the max value of the non-null and non-missing comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the max value of non-null and non-missing numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the given collection does not contain any non-null and non-missing items,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">array_max( [1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 0, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3.4
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_count"></a>coll_count</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_count(collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the number of items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing the items to be counted,</li>
+<li>or a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>bigint</tt> value representing the number of items in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_count( [1, 2, null, missing] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">4
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_avg"></a>coll_avg</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_avg(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the average value of the numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>double</tt> value representing the average of the numbers in the given collection,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_avg( [100, 200, 300] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 200.0 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="coll_sum"></a>coll_sum</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_sum(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the sum of the items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> containing numeric values, <tt>null</tt>s or <tt>missing</tt>s,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the sum of the numbers in the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric value in the input collection will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_sum( [100, 200, 300] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">600
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_min"></a>array_min</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_min(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the min value of comparable items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the min value of the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_min( [10.2, 100, 5] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">5.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="array_max"></a>array_max</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_max(num_collection)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Gets the max value of numeric items in the given collection.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>num_collection</tt> could be:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt>,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>or, a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>The max value of the given collection. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among numeric items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if the input is <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> is returned if there is a <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> in the input collection,</li>
+<li>multiple incomparable items in the input array or multiset will cause a type error,</li>
+<li>any other non-array and non-multiset input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">coll_max( [10.2, 100, 5] );
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">100.0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Comparison_Functions"></a><a name="ComparisonFunctions" id="ComparisonFunctions">Comparison Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="greatest"></a>greatest</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">greatest(numeric_value1, numeric_value2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the greatest value among arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the greatest values among arguments. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value or <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: greatest(1, 2, 3), &quot;v2&quot;: greatest(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;), 5000) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 3, &quot;v2&quot;: 5000.0 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="least"></a>least</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">least(numeric_value1, numeric_value2, ...)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Computes the least value among arguments.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>numeric_value1</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>numeric_value2</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value,</li>
+<li>&#x2026;.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>the least values among arguments. The returning type is decided by the item type with the highest order in the numeric type promotion order (<tt>tinyint</tt>-&gt; <tt>smallint</tt>-&gt;<tt>integer</tt>-&gt;<tt>bigint</tt>-&gt;<tt>float</tt>-&gt;<tt>double</tt>) among items.</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value or <tt>null</tt> value,</li>
+<li>any other non-numeric input value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: least(1, 2, 3), &quot;v2&quot;: least(float(&quot;0.5&quot;), double(&quot;-0.5&quot;), 5000) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 1, &quot;v2&quot;: -0.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Type_Functions"></a><a name="TypeFunctions" id="TypeFunctions">Type Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_array"></a>is_array</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_array(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be an <tt>array</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is an <tt>array</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_array(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_array(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isarray(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isarray(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isarray(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isarray(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isarray(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isarray([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isarray({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: true, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isarray</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_atomic_.28is_atom.29"></a>is_atomic (is_atom)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_atomic(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a value of a <a href="../datamodel.html#PrimitiveTypes">primitive</a> type.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a primitive type or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_atomic(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_atomic(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isatomic(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isatomic(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isatomic(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isatom(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isatom(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isatom([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isatom({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: true, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isatomic</tt>, <tt>is_atom</tt>, and <tt>isatom</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_boolean_.28is_bool.29"></a>is_boolean (is_bool)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_boolean(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>boolean</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>boolean</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: isboolean(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: isboolean(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: is_boolean(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: is_boolean(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isbool(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isbool(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isbool(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isbool([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isbool({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isboolean</tt>, <tt>is_bool</tt>, and <tt>isbool</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_number_.28is_num.29"></a>is_number (is_num)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_number(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a numeric value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt>/<tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_number(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_number(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isnumber(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isnumber(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isnumber(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isnum(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isnum(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isnum([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isnum({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: false, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: true, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isnumber</tt>, <tt>is_num</tt>, and <tt>isnum</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_object_.28is_obj.29"></a>is_object (is_obj)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_object(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>object</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>object</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_object(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: is_object(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isobject(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isobject(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isobj(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isobj(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isobj(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isobj([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isobj({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+<p>{ &#x201c;a&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;b&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;c&#x201d;: null, &#x201c;e&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;f&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;g&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;h&#x201d;: false, &#x201c;i&#x201d;: true }</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isobject</tt>, <tt>is_obj</tt>, and <tt>isobj</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_string_.28is_str.29"></a>is_string (is_str)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_string(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>string</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the argument is a <tt>string</tt> value or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if the argument is a <tt>null</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;a&quot;: is_string(true),
+  &quot;b&quot;: isstring(false),
+  &quot;c&quot;: isstring(null),
+  &quot;d&quot;: isstr(missing),
+  &quot;e&quot;: isstr(&quot;d&quot;),
+  &quot;f&quot;: isstr(4.0),
+  &quot;g&quot;: isstr(5),
+  &quot;h&quot;: isstr([&quot;1&quot;, 2]),
+  &quot;i&quot;: isstr({&quot;a&quot;:1})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: false, &quot;b&quot;: false, &quot;c&quot;: null, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: false, &quot;g&quot;: false, &quot;h&quot;: false, &quot;i&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>isstring</tt>, <tt>is_str</tt>, and <tt>isstr</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_null"></a>is_null</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_null(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>null</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>null</tt> or not,</li>
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if the input is <tt>missing</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_null(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_null(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_null(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isnull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_missing"></a>is_missing</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_missing(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given expression is evaluated to be a <tt>missing</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>missing</tt> or not.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_missing(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_missing(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_missing(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: false, &quot;v3&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ismissing</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="is_unknown"></a>is_unknown</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">is_unknown(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Checks whether the given variable is a <tt>null</tt> value or a <tt>missing</tt> value.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt> on whether the variable is a <tt>null</tt>/``missing<tt>value (</tt>true<tt>) or not (</tt>false`).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: is_unknown(null), &quot;v2&quot;: is_unknown(1), &quot;v3&quot;: is_unknown(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: true, &quot;v2&quot;: false, &quot;v3&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>isunknown</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_array"></a>to_array</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_array(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an <tt>array</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>multiset</tt> type then it is returned as an <tt>array</tt> with elements in an undefined order</li>
+<li>otherwise an <tt>array</tt> containing the input expression as its single item is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_array(&quot;asterix&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_array([&quot;asterix&quot;]),
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: [&quot;asterix&quot;], &quot;v2&quot;: [&quot;asterix&quot;] }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>toarray</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_atomic_.28to_atom.29"></a>to_atomic (to_atom)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_atomic(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <a href="../datamodel.html#PrimitiveTypes">primitive</a> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of primitive type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> type and has only one element then the result of invoking to_atomic() on that element is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type and has only one field then the result of invoking to_atomic() on the value of that field is returned</li>
+<li>otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_atomic(&quot;asterix&quot;),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_atomic([&quot;asterix&quot;]),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_atomic([0, 1]),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_atomic({&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_number({&quot;x&quot;: 1, &quot;y&quot;: 2})
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: null, &quot;v4&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;, &quot;v5&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toatomic</tt>, <tt>to_atom</tt>, and <tt>toatom</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_boolean_.28to_bool.29"></a>to_boolean (to_bool)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_boolean(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <tt>boolean</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it is <tt>0</tt> or <tt>NaN</tt>, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it&#x2019;s empty, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt> or <tt>multiset</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it&#x2019;s size is <tt>0</tt>, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type then <tt>false</tt> is returned if it has no fields, otherwise <tt>true</tt></li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_boolean(0),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_boolean(1),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_boolean(&quot;&quot;),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_boolean(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: true, &quot;v3&quot;: false, &quot;v4&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toboolean</tt>, <tt>to_bool</tt>, and <tt>tobool</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_bigint"></a>to_bigint</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_bigint(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an integer value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric integer type then it is returned as the same value of <tt>bigint</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric <tt>float</tt>/<tt>double</tt> type then it is converted to <tt>bigint</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as integer then that integer value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_bigint(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_bigint(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_bigint(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_bigint(float(&quot;1e100&quot;)),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_bigint(double(&quot;1e1000&quot;)),
+  &quot;v6&quot;: to_bigint(&quot;20&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 10, &quot;v4&quot;: 9223372036854775807, &quot;v5&quot;: 9223372036854775807, &quot;v6&quot;: 20 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>tobigint</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_double"></a>to_double</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_double(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a <tt>double</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1.0</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0.0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then it is returned as the value of <tt>double</tt> type</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as <tt>double</tt> then that <tt>double</tt> value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_double(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_double(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_double(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_double(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_double(&quot;12.5&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0.0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1.0, &quot;v3&quot;: 10.0, &quot;v4&quot;: 11.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 12.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>todouble</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_number_.28to_num.29"></a>to_number (to_num)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_number(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a numeric value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>1</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>0</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type and can be parsed as <tt>bigint</tt> then that <tt>bigint</tt> value is returned, otherwise if it can be parsed as <tt>double</tt> then that <tt>double</tt> value is returned, otherwise <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_number(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_number(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_number(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_number(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_number(&quot;12.5&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: 0, &quot;v2&quot;: 1, &quot;v3&quot;: 10, &quot;v4&quot;: 11.5, &quot;v5&quot;: 12.5 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>tonumber</tt>, <tt>to_num</tt>, and <tt>tonum</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_object_.28to_obj.29"></a>to_object (to_obj)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_object(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to an <tt>object</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>object</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>otherwise an empty <tt>object</tt> is returned</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_object({&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_object(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: {&quot;value&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot;}, &quot;v2&quot;: {} }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>toobject</tt>, <tt>to_obj</tt>, and <tt>toobj</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="to_string_.28to_str.29"></a>to_string (to_str)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">to_string(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Converts input value to a string value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>if the argument is <tt>missing</tt> then <tt>missing</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is <tt>null</tt> then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>boolean</tt> type then <tt>&quot;true&quot;</tt> is returned if it is <tt>true</tt>, <tt>&quot;false&quot;</tt> if it is <tt>false</tt></li>
+<li>if the argument is of numeric type then its string representation is returned</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>string</tt> type then it is returned as is</li>
+<li>if the argument is of <tt>array</tt>/<tt>multiset</tt>/<tt>object</tt> type then <tt>null</tt> is returned</li>
+<li>type error is raised for all other input types</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+  &quot;v1&quot;: to_string(false),
+  &quot;v2&quot;: to_string(true),
+  &quot;v3&quot;: to_string(10),
+  &quot;v4&quot;: to_string(11.5),
+  &quot;v5&quot;: to_string(&quot;asterix&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: &quot;false&quot;, &quot;v2&quot;: &quot;true&quot;, &quot;v3&quot;: &quot;10&quot;, &quot;v4&quot;: &quot;11.5&quot;, &quot;v5&quot;: &quot;asterix&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has three aliases: <tt>tostring</tt>, <tt>to_str</tt>, and <tt>tostr</tt>.</p><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Conditional_Functions"></a><a name="ConditionalFunctions" id="ConditionalFunctions">Conditional Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_null_.28ifnull.29"></a>if_null (ifnull)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_null(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>null</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to <tt>null</tt> or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>null</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_null(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_null(null),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_null(null, &quot;asterixdb&quot;),
+    &quot;d&quot;: is_missing(if_null(missing))
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot;, &quot;d&quot;: true }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_missing_.28ifmissing.29"></a>if_missing (ifmissing)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_missing(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>missing</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to <tt>missing</tt> or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>missing</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_missing(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_missing(missing),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_missing(missing, &quot;asterixdb&quot;),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_missing(null, &quot;asterixdb&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot;, &quot;d&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifmissing</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_missing_or_null_.28ifmissingornull.29"></a>if_missing_or_null (ifmissingornull)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_missing_or_null(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which value is not <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt> and returns that value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if all arguments evaluate to either <tt>null</tt> or <tt>missing</tt>, or no arguments specified</li>
+<li>a value of the first non-<tt>null</tt>, non-<tt>missing</tt> argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: if_missing_or_null(),
+    &quot;b&quot;: if_missing_or_null(null, missing),
+    &quot;c&quot;: if_missing_or_null(null, missing, &quot;asterixdb&quot;)
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: null, &quot;b&quot;: null, &quot;c&quot;: &quot;asterixdb&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifmissingornull</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_inf_.28ifinf.29"></a>if_inf (ifinf)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_inf(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-infinite (<tt>INF</tt> or<tt>-INF</tt>) number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-infinite number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-infinite number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-infinite number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_inf(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_inf(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_inf(double(&quot;INF&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_inf(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_inf(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_inf(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_inf(float(&quot;INF&quot;), 1) ],
+    &quot;h&quot;: to_string(if_inf(float(&quot;INF&quot;), double(&quot;NaN&quot;), 1)) ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1, &quot;h&quot;: &quot;NaN&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifinf</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_nan_.28ifnan.29"></a>if_nan (ifnan)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_nan(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-<tt>NaN</tt> number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_nan(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_nan(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_nan(double(&quot;NaN&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_nan(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_nan(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_nan(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_nan(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), 1) ],
+    &quot;h&quot;: to_string(if_nan(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), double(&quot;INF&quot;), 1)) ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1, &quot;h&quot;: &quot;INF&quot; }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnan</tt>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="if_nan_or_inf_.28ifnanorinf.29"></a>if_nan_or_inf (ifnanorinf)</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">if_nan_or_inf(expression1, expression2, ... expressionN)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Finds first argument which is a non-infinite (<tt>INF</tt> or<tt>-INF</tt>) and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expressionI</tt> : an expression (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>missing</tt> if <tt>missing</tt> argument was encountered before the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>a <tt>null</tt> if <tt>null</tt> argument or any other non-number argument was encountered before the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument</li>
+<li>the first non-infinite and non-<tt>NaN</tt> number argument otherwise</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{
+    &quot;a&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(null)),
+    &quot;b&quot;: is_missing(if_nan_or_inf(missing)),
+    &quot;c&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(double(&quot;NaN&quot;), double(&quot;INF&quot;))),
+    &quot;d&quot;: if_nan_or_inf(1, null, missing) ],
+    &quot;e&quot;: is_null(if_nan_or_inf(null, missing, 1)) ],
+    &quot;f&quot;: is_missing(if_nan_or_inf(missing, null, 1)) ],
+    &quot;g&quot;: if_nan_or_inf(float(&quot;NaN&quot;), float(&quot;INF&quot;), 1) ],
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;a&quot;: true, &quot;b&quot;: true, &quot;c&quot;: true, &quot;d&quot;: 1, &quot;e&quot;: true, &quot;f&quot;: true, &quot;g&quot;: 1 }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The function has an alias <tt>ifnanorinf</tt>.</p><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Miscellaneous_Functions"></a><a name="MiscFunctions" id="MiscFunctions">Miscellaneous Functions</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="uuid"></a>uuid</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">uuid()
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Generates a <tt>uuid</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li>none</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a generated, random <tt>uuid</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="len"></a>len</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+<p>len(array)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Returns the length of the array array.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>array</tt> : an <tt>array</tt>, <tt>multiset</tt>, <tt>null</tt>, or <tt>missing</tt>, represents the collection that needs to be checked.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an <tt>integer</tt> that represents the length of input array or the size of the input multiset,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">len([&quot;Hello&quot;, &quot;World&quot;])
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">2
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="not"></a>not</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">not(expr)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Inverts a <tt>boolean</tt> value</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr</tt> : an expression</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>a <tt>boolean</tt>, the inverse of <tt>expr</tt>,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li>other non-boolean argument value will cause a type error.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: `not`(true), &quot;v2&quot;: `not`(false), &quot;v3&quot;: `not`(null), &quot;v4&quot;: `not`(missing) };
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">{ &quot;v1&quot;: false, &quot;v2&quot;: true, &quot;v3&quot;: null }
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="range"></a>range</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">range(start_numeric_value, end_numeric_value)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Generates a series of <tt>bigint</tt> values based start the <tt>start_numeric_value</tt> until the <tt>end_numeric_value</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:</li>
+<li><tt>start_numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the start value.</li>
+<li><tt>end_numeric_value</tt>: a <tt>tinyint</tt>/<tt>smallint</tt>/<tt>integer</tt>/<tt>bigint</tt> value representing the max final value.</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li>an array that starts with the integer value of <tt>start_numeric_value</tt> and ends with the integer value of <tt>end_numeric_value</tt>, where the value of each entry in the array is the integer successor of the value in the preceding entry.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">range(0, 3);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="switch_case"></a>switch_case</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    condition,
+    case1, case1_result,
+    case2, case2_result,
+    ...,
+    default, default_result
+)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Switches amongst a sequence of cases and returns the result of the first matching case. If no match is found, the result of the default case is returned.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>condition</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+<li><tt>caseI/default</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+<li><tt>caseI/default_result</tt>: a variable (any type is allowed).</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>caseI_result</tt> if <tt>condition</tt> matches <tt>caseI</tt>, otherwise <tt>default_result</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Example 1:
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    &quot;a&quot;,
+    &quot;a&quot;, 0,
+    &quot;x&quot;, 1,
+    &quot;y&quot;, 2,
+    &quot;z&quot;, 3
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">0
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example 2:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">switch_case(
+    &quot;a&quot;,
+    &quot;x&quot;, 1,
+    &quot;y&quot;, 2,
+    &quot;z&quot;, 3
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="deep_equal"></a>deep_equal</h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p>Syntax:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">deep_equal(expr1, expr2)
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Assess the equality between two expressions of any type (e.g., object, arrays, or multiset). Two objects are deeply equal iff both their types and values are equal.</p>
+</li>
+<li>Arguments:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>expr1</tt> : an expression,</li>
+<li><tt>expr2</tt> : an expression.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Return Value:
+<ul>
+
+<li><tt>true</tt> or <tt>false</tt> depending on the data equality,</li>
+<li><tt>missing</tt> if any argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value,</li>
+<li><tt>null</tt> if any argument is a <tt>null</tt> value but no argument is a <tt>missing</tt> value.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">deep_equal(
+           {
+             &quot;id&quot;:1,
+             &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+             &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;Irvine&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+             &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+           },
+           {
+             &quot;id&quot;:1,
+             &quot;project&quot;:&quot;AsterixDB&quot;,
+             &quot;address&quot;:{&quot;city&quot;:&quot;San Diego&quot;, &quot;state&quot;:&quot;CA&quot;},
+             &quot;related&quot;:[&quot;Hivestrix&quot;, &quot;Preglix&quot;, &quot;Apache VXQuery&quot;]
+           }
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>The expected result is:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">false
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ul></div></div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
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+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/similarity.html" title="Support of Similarity Queries"><span class="none"></span>Support of Similarity Queries</a></li>
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+<h1>The SQL++ Query Language</h1>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Introduction">1. Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Expressions">2. Expressions</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Operator_expressions">Operator Expressions</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Arithmetic_operators">Arithmetic Operators</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Collection_operators">Collection Operators</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Comparison_operators">Comparison Operators</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Logical_operators">Logical Operators</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Case_expressions">Case Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Quantified_expressions">Quantified Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Path_expressions">Path Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Primary_expressions">Primary Expressions</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Literals">Literals</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Variable_references">Variable References</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Parenthesized_expressions">Parenthesized Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Function_call_expressions">Function call Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Constructors">Constructors</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Queries">3. Queries</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Declarations">Declarations</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SELECT_statements">SELECT Statements</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Select_clauses">SELECT Clauses</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Select_element">Select Element/Value/Raw</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SQL_select">SQL-style Select</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Select_star">Select *</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Select_distinct">Select Distinct</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Unnamed_projections">Unnamed Projections</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Abbreviated_field_access_expressions">Abbreviated Field Access Expressions</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Unnest_clauses">UNNEST Clauses</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Inner_unnests">Inner Unnests</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Left_outer_unnests">Left Outer Unnests</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Expressing_joins_using_unnests">Expressing Joins Using Unnests</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#From_clauses">FROM clauses</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Binding_expressions">Binding Expressions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Multiple_from_terms">Multiple From Terms</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Expressing_joins_using_from_terms">Expressing Joins Using From Terms</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Implicit_binding_variables">Implicit Binding Variables</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Join_clauses">JOIN Clauses</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Inner_joins">Inner Joins</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Left_outer_joins">Left Outer Joins</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Group_By_clauses">GROUP BY Clauses</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Group_variables">Group Variables</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Implicit_group_key_variables">Implicit Group Key Variables</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Implicit_group_variables">Implicit Group Variables</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Aggregation_functions">Aggregation Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SQL-92_aggregation_functions">SQL-92 Aggregation Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SQL-92_compliant_gby">SQL-92 Compliant GROUP BY Aggregations</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Column_aliases">Column Aliases</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Where_having_clauses">WHERE Clauses and HAVING Clauses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Order_By_clauses">ORDER BY Clauses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Limit_clauses">LIMIT Clauses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#With_clauses">WITH Clauses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Let_clauses">LET Clauses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Union_all">UNION ALL</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Vs_SQL-92">SQL++ Vs. SQL-92</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Errors">4. Errors</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Syntax_errors">Syntax Errors</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Identifier_resolution_errors">Identifier Resolution Errors</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Type_errors">Type Errors</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Resource_errors">Resource Errors</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#DDL_and_DML_statements">5. DDL and DML Statements</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Lifecycle_management_statements">Lifecycle Management Statements</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Dataverses">Dataverses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Types">Types</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Datasets">Datasets</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Indices">Indices</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Functions">Functions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Removal">Removal</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Load_statement">Load Statement</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Modification_statements">Modification Statements</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Inserts">Inserts</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Upserts">Upserts</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Deletes">Deletes</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Reserved_keywords">Appendix 1. Reserved Keywords</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Performance_tuning">Appendix 2. Performance Tuning</a>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Parallelism_parameter">Parallelism Parameter</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Memory_parameters">Memory Parameters</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#Variable_bindings_and_name_resolution">Appendix 3. Variable Bindings and Name Resolution</a></li>
+</ul><!--
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+<h1><a name="Introduction" id="Introduction">1. Introduction</a><font size="3" /></h1>
+<p>This document is intended as a reference guide to the full syntax and semantics of the SQL++ Query Language, a SQL-inspired language for working with semistructured data. SQL++ has much in common with SQL, but some differences do exist due to the different data models that the two languages were designed to serve. SQL was designed in the 1970&#x2019;s for interacting with the flat, schema-ified world of relational databases, while SQL++ is much newer and targets the nested, schema-optional (or even schema-less) world of modern NoSQL systems.</p>
+<p>In the context of Apache AsterixDB, SQL++ is intended for working with the Asterix Data Model (<a href="../datamodel.html">ADM</a>),a data model based on a superset of JSON with an enriched and flexible type system. New AsterixDB users are encouraged to read and work through the (much friendlier) guide &#x201c;<a href="primer-sqlpp.html">AsterixDB 101: An ADM and SQL++ Primer</a>&#x201d; before attempting to make use of this document. In addition, readers are advised to read through the <a href="../datamodel.html">Asterix Data Model (ADM) reference guide</a> first as well, as an understanding of the data model is a prerequisite to understanding SQL++.</p>
+<p>In what follows, we detail the features of the SQL++ language in a grammar-guided manner. We list and briefly explain each of the productions in the SQL++ grammar, offering examples (and results) for clarity.</p><!--
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+<h1><a name="Expressions" id="Expressions">2. Expressions</a></h1><!--
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+
+<p>SQL++ is a highly composable expression language. Each SQL++ expression returns zero or more data model instances. There are three major kinds of expressions in SQL++. At the topmost level, a SQL++ expression can be an OperatorExpression (similar to a mathematical expression), an ConditionalExpression (to choose between alternative values), or a QuantifiedExpression (which yields a boolean value). Each will be detailed as we explore the full SQL++ grammar.</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Expression ::= OperatorExpression | CaseExpression | QuantifiedExpression
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that in the following text, words enclosed in angle brackets denote keywords that are not case-sensitive.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Operator_Expressions"></a><a name="Operator_expressions" id="Operator_expressions">Operator Expressions</a></h2>
+<p>Operators perform a specific operation on the input values or expressions. The syntax of an operator expression is as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">OperatorExpression ::= PathExpression
+                       | Operator OperatorExpression
+                       | OperatorExpression Operator (OperatorExpression)?
+                       | OperatorExpression &lt;BETWEEN&gt; OperatorExpression &lt;AND&gt; OperatorExpression
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>SQL++ provides a full set of operators that you can use within its statements. Here are the categories of operators:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="#Arithmetic_operators">Arithmetic Operators</a>, to perform basic mathematical operations;</li>
+<li><a href="#Collection_operators">Collection Operators</a>, to evaluate expressions on collections or objects;</li>
+<li><a href="#Comparison_operators">Comparison Operators</a>, to compare two expressions;</li>
+<li><a href="#Logical_operators">Logical Operators</a>, to combine operators using Boolean logic.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The following table summarizes the precedence order (from higher to lower) of the major unary and binary operators:</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator                                                                    </th>
+<th> Operation </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> EXISTS, NOT EXISTS                                                          </td>
+<td>  Collection emptiness testing </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ^                                                                           </td>
+<td>  Exponentiation  </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> *, /, %                                                                     </td>
+<td>  Multiplication, division, modulo </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> +, -                                                                        </td>
+<td>  Addition, subtraction  </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> ||                                                                          </td>
+<td>  String concatenation </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NULL, IS NOT NULL, IS MISSING, IS NOT MISSING, <br />IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN, IS VALUED, IS NOT VALUED </td>
+<td> Unknown value comparison </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> BETWEEN, NOT BETWEEN                                                        </td>
+<td> Range comparison (inclusive on both sides) </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> =, !=, &lt;&gt;, &lt;, &gt;, &lt;=, &gt;=, LIKE, NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN                             </td>
+<td> Comparison  </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> NOT                                                                         </td>
+<td> Logical negation </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> AND                                                                         </td>
+<td> Conjunction </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> OR                                                                          </td>
+<td> Disjunction </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>In general, if any operand evaluates to a <tt>MISSING</tt> value, the enclosing operator will return <tt>MISSING</tt>; if none of operands evaluates to a <tt>MISSING</tt> value but there is an operand evaluates to a <tt>NULL</tt> value, the enclosing operator will return <tt>NULL</tt>. However, there are a few exceptions listed in <a href="#Comparison_operators">comparison operators</a> and <a href="#Logical_operators">logical operators</a>.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Arithmetic_Operators"></a><a name="Arithmetic_operators" id="Arithmetic_operators">Arithmetic Operators</a></h3>
+<p>Arithmetic operators are used to exponentiate, add, subtract, multiply, and divide numeric values, or concatenate string values.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator     </th>
+<th>  Purpose                                                                </th>
+<th> Example    </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> +, -         </td>
+<td>  As unary operators, they denote a <br />positive or negative expression </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE -1; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> +, -         </td>
+<td>  As binary operators, they add or subtract                              </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE 1 + 2; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> *, /, %      </td>
+<td>  Multiply, divide, modulo                                               </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE 4 / 2.0; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ^            </td>
+<td>  Exponentiation                                                         </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE 2^3;       </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> || </td>
+<td>  String concatenation                                                   </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE &#x201c;ab&#x201d;||&#x201c;c&#x201d;||&#x201c;d&#x201d;;       </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Collection_Operators"></a><a name="Collection_operators" id="Collection_operators">Collection Operators</a></h3>
+<p>Collection operators are used for membership tests (IN, NOT IN) or empty collection tests (EXISTS, NOT EXISTS).</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator   </th>
+<th>  Purpose                                     </th>
+<th> Example    </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IN         </td>
+<td>  Membership test                             </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.lang IN [&#x201c;en&#x201d;, &#x201c;de&#x201d;]; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> NOT IN     </td>
+<td>  Non-membership test                         </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.lang NOT IN [&#x201c;en&#x201d;]; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> EXISTS     </td>
+<td>  Check whether a collection is not empty     </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE EXISTS cm.referredTopics; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> NOT EXISTS </td>
+<td>  Check whether a collection is empty         </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE NOT EXISTS cm.referredTopics; </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Comparison_Operators"></a><a name="Comparison_operators" id="Comparison_operators">Comparison Operators</a></h3>
+<p>Comparison operators are used to compare values. The comparison operators fall into one of two sub-categories: missing value comparisons and regular value comparisons. SQL++ (and JSON) has two ways of representing missing information in a object - the presence of the field with a NULL for its value (as in SQL), and the absence of the field (which JSON permits). For example, the first of the following objects represents Jack, whose friend is Jill. In the other examples, Jake is friendless a la SQL, with a friend field that is NULL, while Joe is friendless in a more natural (for JSON) way, i.e., by not having a friend field.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+<p>{&#x201c;name&#x201d;: &#x201c;Jack&#x201d;, &#x201c;friend&#x201d;: &#x201c;Jill&#x201d;}</p>
+<p>{&#x201c;name&#x201d;: &#x201c;Jake&#x201d;, &#x201c;friend&#x201d;: NULL}</p>
+<p>{&#x201c;name&#x201d;: &#x201c;Joe&#x201d;}</p>
+<p>The following table enumerates all of SQL++&#x2019;s comparison operators.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator       </th>
+<th>  Purpose                                   </th>
+<th> Example    </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS NULL        </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is NULL                       </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS NULL; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT NULL    </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is not NULL                   </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS NOT NULL; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS MISSING     </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is MISSING                    </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS MISSING; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT MISSING </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is not MISSING                </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS NOT MISSING;</td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS UNKNOWN     </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is NULL or MISSING            </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS UNKNOWN; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT UNKNOWN </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is neither NULL nor MISSING   </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS NOT UNKNOWN;</td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS VALUED      </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is neither NULL nor MISSING   </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS VALUED; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT VALUED  </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is NULL or MISSING            </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name IS NOT VALUED;</td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> BETWEEN        </td>
+<td>  Test if a value is between a start value and <br />a end value. The comparison is inclusive <br />to both start and end values. </td>
+<td>  SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId BETWEEN 10 AND 20;</td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> =              </td>
+<td>  Equality test                                 </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId=10; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> !=             </td>
+<td>  Inequality test                               </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId!=10;</td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> &lt;&gt;             </td>
+<td>  Inequality test                               </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId&lt;&gt;10;</td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> &lt;              </td>
+<td>  Less than                                     </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId&lt;10; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> &gt;              </td>
+<td>  Greater than                                  </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId&gt;10; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> &lt;=             </td>
+<td>  Less than or equal to                         </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId&lt;=10; </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> &gt;=             </td>
+<td>  Greater than or equal to                      </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.chirpId&gt;=10; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> LIKE           </td>
+<td>  Test if the left side matches a<br /> pattern defined on the right<br /> side; in the pattern,  &#x201c;%&#x201d; matches  <br />any string while &#x201c;_&#x201d; matches <br /> any character. </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name LIKE &#x201c;%Giesen%&#x201d;;</td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> NOT LIKE       </td>
+<td>  Test if the left side does not <br />match a pattern defined on the right<br /> side; in the pattern,  &#x201c;%&#x201d; matches <br />any string while &#x201c;_&#x201d; matches <br /> any character. </td>
+<td> SELECT * FROM ChirpMessages cm <br />WHERE cm.user.name NOT LIKE &#x201c;%Giesen%&#x201d;;</td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The following table summarizes how the missing value comparison operators work.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator </th>
+<th> Non-NULL/Non-MISSING value </th>
+<th> NULL </th>
+<th> MISSING </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS NULL  </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> MISSING </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT NULL </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> MISSING </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS MISSING  </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT MISSING </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS UNKNOWN </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT UNKNOWN </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE</td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> IS VALUED </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IS NOT VALUED </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Logical_Operators"></a><a name="Logical_operators" id="Logical_operators">Logical Operators</a></h3>
+<p>Logical operators perform logical <tt>NOT</tt>, <tt>AND</tt>, and <tt>OR</tt> operations over Boolean values (<tt>TRUE</tt> and <tt>FALSE</tt>) plus <tt>NULL</tt> and <tt>MISSING</tt>.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Operator </th>
+<th>  Purpose                                   </th>
+<th> Example    </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> NOT      </td>
+<td>  Returns true if the following condition is false, otherwise returns false  </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE NOT TRUE;  </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> AND      </td>
+<td>  Returns true if both branches are true, otherwise returns false            </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE TRUE AND FALSE; </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> OR       </td>
+<td>  Returns true if one branch is true, otherwise returns false                </td>
+<td> SELECT VALUE FALSE OR FALSE; </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The following table is the truth table for <tt>AND</tt> and <tt>OR</tt>.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> A  </th>
+<th> B  </th>
+<th> A AND B  </th>
+<th> A OR B </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> NULL </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> MISSING </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> NULL </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> NULL </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The following table demonstrates the results of <tt>NOT</tt> on all possible inputs.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> A  </th>
+<th> NOT A </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> TRUE </td>
+<td> FALSE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> FALSE </td>
+<td> TRUE </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> NULL </td>
+<td> NULL </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> MISSING </td>
+<td> MISSING </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Case_Expressions"></a><a name="Case_expressions" id="Case_expressions">Case Expressions</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CaseExpression ::= SimpleCaseExpression | SearchedCaseExpression
+SimpleCaseExpression ::= &lt;CASE&gt; Expression ( &lt;WHEN&gt; Expression &lt;THEN&gt; Expression )+ ( &lt;ELSE&gt; Expression )? &lt;END&gt;
+SearchedCaseExpression ::= &lt;CASE&gt; ( &lt;WHEN&gt; Expression &lt;THEN&gt; Expression )+ ( &lt;ELSE&gt; Expression )? &lt;END&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In a simple <tt>CASE</tt> expression, the query evaluator searches for the first <tt>WHEN</tt> &#x2026; <tt>THEN</tt> pair in which the <tt>WHEN</tt> expression is equal to the expression following <tt>CASE</tt> and returns the expression following <tt>THEN</tt>. If none of the <tt>WHEN</tt> &#x2026; <tt>THEN</tt> pairs meet this condition, and an <tt>ELSE</tt> branch exists, it returns the <tt>ELSE</tt> expression. Otherwise, <tt>NULL</tt> is returned.</p>
+<p>In a searched CASE expression, the query evaluator searches from left to right until it finds a <tt>WHEN</tt> expression that is evaluated to <tt>TRUE</tt>, and then returns its corresponding <tt>THEN</tt> expression. If no condition is found to be <tt>TRUE</tt>, and an <tt>ELSE</tt> branch exists, it returns the <tt>ELSE</tt> expression. Otherwise, it returns <tt>NULL</tt>.</p>
+<p>The following example illustrates the form of a case expression.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CASE (2 &lt; 3) WHEN true THEN &quot;yes&quot; ELSE &quot;no&quot; END
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Quantified_Expressions"></a><a name="Quantified_expressions" id="Quantified_expressions">Quantified Expressions</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">QuantifiedExpression ::= ( (&lt;ANY&gt;|&lt;SOME&gt;) | &lt;EVERY&gt; ) Variable &lt;IN&gt; Expression ( &quot;,&quot; Variable &quot;in&quot; Expression )*
+                         &lt;SATISFIES&gt; Expression (&lt;END&gt;)?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Quantified expressions are used for expressing existential or universal predicates involving the elements of a collection.</p>
+<p>The following pair of examples illustrate the use of a quantified expression to test that every (or some) element in the set [1, 2, 3] of integers is less than three. The first example yields <tt>FALSE</tt> and second example yields <tt>TRUE</tt>.</p>
+<p>It is useful to note that if the set were instead the empty set, the first expression would yield <tt>TRUE</tt> (&#x201c;every&#x201d; value in an empty set satisfies the condition) while the second expression would yield <tt>FALSE</tt> (since there isn&#x2019;t &#x201c;some&#x201d; value, as there are no values in the set, that satisfies the condition).</p>
+<p>A quantified expression will return a <tt>NULL</tt> (or <tt>MISSING</tt>) if the first expression in it evaluates to <tt>NULL</tt> (or <tt>MISSING</tt>). A type error will be raised if the first expression in a quantified expression does not return a collection.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">EVERY x IN [ 1, 2, 3 ] SATISFIES x &lt; 3
+SOME x IN [ 1, 2, 3 ] SATISFIES x &lt; 3
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Path_Expressions"></a><a name="Path_expressions" id="Path_expressions">Path Expressions</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">PathExpression  ::= PrimaryExpression ( Field | Index )*
+Field           ::= &quot;.&quot; Identifier
+Index           ::= &quot;[&quot; ( Expression | &quot;?&quot; ) &quot;]&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Components of complex types in the data model are accessed via path expressions. Path access can be applied to the result of a SQL++ expression that yields an instance of  a complex type, for example, a object or array instance. For objects, path access is based on field names. For arrays, path access is based on (zero-based) array-style indexing. SQL++ also supports an &#x201c;I&#x2019;m feeling lucky&#x201d; style index accessor, [?], for selecting an arbitrary element from an array. Attempts to access non-existent fields or out-of-bound array elements produce the special value <tt>MISSING</tt>. Type errors will be raised for inappropriate use of a path expression, such as applying a field accessor to a numeric value.</p>
+<p>The following examples illustrate field access for a object, index-based element access for an array, and also a composition thereof.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">({&quot;name&quot;: &quot;MyABCs&quot;, &quot;array&quot;: [ &quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;]}).array
+
+([&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;])[2]
+
+({&quot;name&quot;: &quot;MyABCs&quot;, &quot;array&quot;: [ &quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c&quot;]}).array[2]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Primary_Expressions"></a><a name="Primary_expressions" id="Primary_expressions">Primary Expressions</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">PrimaryExpr ::= Literal
+              | VariableReference
+              | ParenthesizedExpression
+              | FunctionCallExpression
+              | Constructor
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The most basic building block for any SQL++ expression is PrimaryExpression. This can be a simple literal (constant) value, a reference to a query variable that is in scope, a parenthesized expression, a function call, or a newly constructed instance of the data model (such as a newly constructed object, array, or multiset of data model instances).</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Literals" id="Literals">Literals</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Literal        ::= StringLiteral
+                   | IntegerLiteral
+                   | FloatLiteral
+                   | DoubleLiteral
+                   | &lt;NULL&gt;
+                   | &lt;MISSING&gt;
+                   | &lt;TRUE&gt;
+                   | &lt;FALSE&gt;
+StringLiteral  ::= &quot;\&quot;&quot; (
+                             &lt;EscapeQuot&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeBslash&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeSlash&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeBspace&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeFormf&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeNl&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeCr&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeTab&gt;
+                           | ~[&quot;\&quot;&quot;,&quot;\\&quot;])*
+                    &quot;\&quot;&quot;
+                    | &quot;\'&quot;(
+                             &lt;EscapeApos&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeBslash&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeSlash&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeBspace&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeFormf&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeNl&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeCr&gt;
+                           | &lt;EscapeTab&gt;
+                           | ~[&quot;\'&quot;,&quot;\\&quot;])*
+                      &quot;\'&quot;
+&lt;ESCAPE_Apos&gt;  ::= &quot;\\\'&quot;
+&lt;ESCAPE_Quot&gt;  ::= &quot;\\\&quot;&quot;
+&lt;EscapeBslash&gt; ::= &quot;\\\\&quot;
+&lt;EscapeSlash&gt;  ::= &quot;\\/&quot;
+&lt;EscapeBspace&gt; ::= &quot;\\b&quot;
+&lt;EscapeFormf&gt;  ::= &quot;\\f&quot;
+&lt;EscapeNl&gt;     ::= &quot;\\n&quot;
+&lt;EscapeCr&gt;     ::= &quot;\\r&quot;
+&lt;EscapeTab&gt;    ::= &quot;\\t&quot;
+
+IntegerLiteral ::= &lt;DIGITS&gt;
+&lt;DIGITS&gt;       ::= [&quot;0&quot; - &quot;9&quot;]+
+FloatLiteral   ::= &lt;DIGITS&gt; ( &quot;f&quot; | &quot;F&quot; )
+                 | &lt;DIGITS&gt; ( &quot;.&quot; &lt;DIGITS&gt; ( &quot;f&quot; | &quot;F&quot; ) )?
+                 | &quot;.&quot; &lt;DIGITS&gt; ( &quot;f&quot; | &quot;F&quot; )
+DoubleLiteral  ::= &lt;DIGITS&gt; &quot;.&quot; &lt;DIGITS&gt;
+                   | &quot;.&quot; &lt;DIGITS&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Literals (constants) in SQL++ can be strings, integers, floating point values, double values, boolean constants, or special constant values like <tt>NULL</tt> and <tt>MISSING</tt>. The <tt>NULL</tt> value is like a <tt>NULL</tt> in SQL; it is used to represent an unknown field value. The specialy value <tt>MISSING</tt> is only meaningful in the context of SQL++ field accesses; it occurs when the accessed field simply does not exist at all in a object being accessed.</p>
+<p>The following are some simple examples of SQL++ literals.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">'a string'
+&quot;test string&quot;
+42
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Different from standard SQL, double quotes play the same role as single quotes and may be used for string literals in SQL++.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Variable_References"></a><a name="Variable_references" id="Variable_references">Variable References</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">VariableReference     ::= &lt;IDENTIFIER&gt;|&lt;DelimitedIdentifier&gt;
+&lt;IDENTIFIER&gt;          ::= (&lt;LETTER&gt; | &quot;_&quot;) (&lt;LETTER&gt; | &lt;DIGIT&gt; | &quot;_&quot; | &quot;$&quot;)*
+&lt;LETTER&gt;              ::= [&quot;A&quot; - &quot;Z&quot;, &quot;a&quot; - &quot;z&quot;]
+DelimitedIdentifier   ::= &quot;`&quot; (&lt;EscapeQuot&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeBslash&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeSlash&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeBspace&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeFormf&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeNl&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeCr&gt;
+                                | &lt;EscapeTab&gt;
+                                | ~[&quot;`&quot;,&quot;\\&quot;])*
+                          &quot;`&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>A variable in SQL++ can be bound to any legal data model value. A variable reference refers to the value to which an in-scope variable is bound. (E.g., a variable binding may originate from one of the <tt>FROM</tt>, <tt>WITH</tt> or <tt>LET</tt> clauses of a <tt>SELECT</tt> statement or from an input parameter in the context of a function body.) Backticks, for example, `id`, are used for delimited identifiers. Delimiting is needed when a variable&#x2019;s desired name clashes with a SQL++ keyword or includes characters not allowed in regular identifiers. More information on exactly how variable references are resolved can be found in the appendix section on Variable Resolution.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">tweet
+id
+`SELECT`
+`my-function`
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Parenthesized_Expressions"></a><a name="Parenthesized_expressions" id="Parenthesized_expressions">Parenthesized Expressions</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ParenthesizedExpression ::= &quot;(&quot; Expression &quot;)&quot; | Subquery
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>An expression can be parenthesized to control the precedence order or otherwise clarify a query. In SQL++, for composability, a subquery is also an parenthesized expression.</p>
+<p>The following expression evaluates to the value 2.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">( 1 + 1 )
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Function_Call_Expressions"></a><a name="Function_call_expressions" id="Function_call_expressions">Function Call Expressions</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FunctionCallExpression ::= FunctionName &quot;(&quot; ( Expression ( &quot;,&quot; Expression )* )? &quot;)&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Functions are included in SQL++, like most languages, as a way to package useful functionality or to componentize complicated or reusable SQL++ computations. A function call is a legal SQL++ query expression that represents the value resulting from the evaluation of its body expression with the given parameter bindings; the parameter value bindings can themselves be any SQL++ expressions.</p>
+<p>The following example is a (built-in) function call expression whose value is 8.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">length('a string')
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Constructors" id="Constructors">Constructors</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Constructor              ::= ArrayConstructor | MultisetConstructor | ObjectConstructor
+ArrayConstructor         ::= &quot;[&quot; ( Expression ( &quot;,&quot; Expression )* )? &quot;]&quot;
+MultisetConstructor      ::= &quot;{{&quot; ( Expression ( &quot;,&quot; Expression )* )? &quot;}}&quot;
+ObjectConstructor        ::= &quot;{&quot; ( FieldBinding ( &quot;,&quot; FieldBinding )* )? &quot;}&quot;
+FieldBinding             ::= Expression &quot;:&quot; Expression
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>A major feature of SQL++ is its ability to construct new data model instances. This is accomplished using its constructors for each of the model&#x2019;s complex object structures, namely arrays, multisets, and objects. Arrays are like JSON arrays, while multisets have bag semantics. Objects are built from fields that are field-name/field-value pairs, again like JSON.</p>
+<p>The following examples illustrate how to construct a new array with 4 items and a new object with 2 fields respectively. Array elements can be homogeneous (as in the first example), which is the common case, or they may be heterogeneous (as in the second example). The data values and field name values used to construct arrays, multisets, and objects in constructors are all simply SQL++ expressions. Thus, the collection elements, field names, and field values used in constructors can be simple literals or they can come from query variable references or even arbitrarily complex SQL++ expressions (subqueries). Type errors will be raised if the field names in an object are not strings, and duplicate field errors will be raised if they are not distinct.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Examples"></a>Examples</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'c' ]
+
+[ 42, &quot;forty-two!&quot;, { &quot;rank&quot; : &quot;Captain&quot;, &quot;name&quot;: &quot;America&quot; }, 3.14159 ]
+
+{
+  'project name': 'Hyracks',
+  'project members': [ 'vinayakb', 'dtabass', 'chenli', 'tsotras', 'tillw' ]
+}
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
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+
+<h1><a name="Queries" id="Queries">3. Queries</a></h1>
+<p>A SQL++ query can be any legal SQL++ expression or <tt>SELECT</tt> statement. A SQL++ query always ends with a semicolon.</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Query ::= (Expression | SelectStatement) &quot;;&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
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+ !
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+ !
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+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Declarations" id="Declarations">Declarations</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DatabaseDeclaration ::= &quot;USE&quot; Identifier
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>At the uppermost level, the world of data is organized into data namespaces called <b>dataverses</b>. To set the default dataverse for a series of statements, the USE statement is provided in SQL++.</p>
+<p>As an example, the following statement sets the default dataverse to be &#x201c;TinySocial&#x201d;.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">USE TinySocial;
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<p>When writing a complex SQL++ query, it can sometimes be helpful to define one or more auxilliary functions that each address a sub-piece of the overall query. The declare function statement supports the creation of such helper functions. In general, the function body (expression) can be any legal SQL++ query expression.</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FunctionDeclaration  ::= &quot;DECLARE&quot; &quot;FUNCTION&quot; Identifier ParameterList &quot;{&quot; Expression &quot;}&quot;
+ParameterList        ::= &quot;(&quot; ( &lt;VARIABLE&gt; ( &quot;,&quot; &lt;VARIABLE&gt; )* )? &quot;)&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following is a simple example of a temporary SQL++ function definition and its use.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DECLARE FUNCTION friendInfo(userId) {
+    (SELECT u.id, u.name, len(u.friendIds) AS friendCount
+     FROM GleambookUsers u
+     WHERE u.id = userId)[0]
+ };
+
+SELECT VALUE friendInfo(2);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>For our sample data set, this returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  { &quot;id&quot;: 2, &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;, &quot;friendCount&quot;: 2 }
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
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+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="SELECT_Statements"></a><a name="SELECT_statements" id="SELECT_statements">SELECT Statements</a></h2>
+<p>The following shows the (rich) grammar for the <tt>SELECT</tt> statement in SQL++.</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SelectStatement    ::= ( WithClause )?
+                       SelectSetOperation (OrderbyClause )? ( LimitClause )?
+SelectSetOperation ::= SelectBlock (&lt;UNION&gt; &lt;ALL&gt; ( SelectBlock | Subquery ) )*
+Subquery           ::= &quot;(&quot; SelectStatement &quot;)&quot;
+
+SelectBlock        ::= SelectClause
+                       ( FromClause ( LetClause )?)?
+                       ( WhereClause )?
+                       ( GroupbyClause ( LetClause )? ( HavingClause )? )?
+                       |
+                       FromClause ( LetClause )?
+                       ( WhereClause )?
+                       ( GroupbyClause ( LetClause )? ( HavingClause )? )?
+                       SelectClause
+
+SelectClause       ::= &lt;SELECT&gt; ( &lt;ALL&gt; | &lt;DISTINCT&gt; )? ( SelectRegular | SelectValue )
+SelectRegular      ::= Projection ( &quot;,&quot; Projection )*
+SelectValue        ::= ( &lt;VALUE&gt; | &lt;ELEMENT&gt; | &lt;RAW&gt; ) Expression
+Projection         ::= ( Expression ( &lt;AS&gt; )? Identifier | &quot;*&quot; )
+
+FromClause         ::= &lt;FROM&gt; FromTerm ( &quot;,&quot; FromTerm )*
+FromTerm           ::= Expression (( &lt;AS&gt; )? Variable)?
+                       ( ( JoinType )? ( JoinClause | UnnestClause ) )*
+
+JoinClause         ::= &lt;JOIN&gt; Expression (( &lt;AS&gt; )? Variable)? &lt;ON&gt; Expression
+UnnestClause       ::= ( &lt;UNNEST&gt; ) Expression
+                       ( &lt;AS&gt; )? Variable ( &lt;AT&gt; Variable )?
+JoinType           ::= ( &lt;INNER&gt; | &lt;LEFT&gt; ( &lt;OUTER&gt; )? )
+
+WithClause         ::= &lt;WITH&gt; WithElement ( &quot;,&quot; WithElement )*
+LetClause          ::= (&lt;LET&gt; | &lt;LETTING&gt;) LetElement ( &quot;,&quot; LetElement )*
+LetElement         ::= Variable &quot;=&quot; Expression
+WithElement        ::= Variable &lt;AS&gt; Expression
+
+WhereClause        ::= &lt;WHERE&gt; Expression
+
+GroupbyClause      ::= &lt;GROUP&gt; &lt;BY&gt; Expression ( ( (&lt;AS&gt;)? Variable )?
+                       ( &quot;,&quot; Expression ( (&lt;AS&gt;)? Variable )? )* )
+                       ( &lt;GROUP&gt; &lt;AS&gt; Variable
+                         (&quot;(&quot; VariableReference &lt;AS&gt; Identifier
+                         (&quot;,&quot; VariableReference &lt;AS&gt; Identifier )* &quot;)&quot;)?
+                       )?
+HavingClause       ::= &lt;HAVING&gt; Expression
+
+OrderbyClause      ::= &lt;ORDER&gt; &lt;BY&gt; Expression ( &lt;ASC&gt; | &lt;DESC&gt; )?
+                       ( &quot;,&quot; Expression ( &lt;ASC&gt; | &lt;DESC&gt; )? )*
+LimitClause        ::= &lt;LIMIT&gt; Expression ( &lt;OFFSET&gt; Expression )?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In this section, we will make use of two stored collections of objects (datasets), <tt>GleambookUsers</tt> and <tt>GleambookMessages</tt>, in a series of running examples to explain <tt>SELECT</tt> queries. The contents of the example collections are as follows:</p>
+<p><tt>GleambookUsers</tt> collection (or, dataset):</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+  &quot;id&quot;:1,
+  &quot;alias&quot;:&quot;Margarita&quot;,
+  &quot;name&quot;:&quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+  &quot;nickname&quot;:&quot;Mags&quot;,
+  &quot;userSince&quot;:&quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00&quot;,
+  &quot;friendIds&quot;:[2,3,6,10],
+  &quot;employment&quot;:[{
+                  &quot;organizationName&quot;:&quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+                  &quot;start-date&quot;:&quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+                },
+                {
+                  &quot;organizationName&quot;:&quot;geomedia&quot;,
+                  &quot;start-date&quot;:&quot;2010-06-17&quot;,
+                  &quot;end-date&quot;:&quot;2010-01-26&quot;
+                }],
+  &quot;gender&quot;:&quot;F&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;id&quot;:2,
+  &quot;alias&quot;:&quot;Isbel&quot;,
+  &quot;name&quot;:&quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+  &quot;nickname&quot;:&quot;Izzy&quot;,
+  &quot;userSince&quot;:&quot;2011-01-22T10:10:00&quot;,
+  &quot;friendIds&quot;:[1,4],
+  &quot;employment&quot;:[{
+                  &quot;organizationName&quot;:&quot;Hexviafind&quot;,
+                  &quot;startDate&quot;:&quot;2010-04-27&quot;
+               }]
+},
+{
+  &quot;id&quot;:3,
+  &quot;alias&quot;:&quot;Emory&quot;,
+  &quot;name&quot;:&quot;EmoryUnk&quot;,
+  &quot;userSince&quot;:&quot;2012-07-10T10:10:00&quot;,
+  &quot;friendIds&quot;:[1,5,8,9],
+  &quot;employment&quot;:[{
+                  &quot;organizationName&quot;:&quot;geomedia&quot;,
+                  &quot;startDate&quot;:&quot;2010-06-17&quot;,
+                  &quot;endDate&quot;:&quot;2010-01-26&quot;
+               }]
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p><tt>GleambookMessages</tt> collection (or, dataset):</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:2,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:1,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:4,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[41.66,80.87],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:3,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:2,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:4,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[48.09,81.01],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:4,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:1,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:2,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[37.73,97.04],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:6,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:2,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:1,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[31.5,75.56],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+}
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:8,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:1,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:11,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[40.33,80.87],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:10,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:1,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:12,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[42.5,70.01],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+},
+{
+  &quot;messageId&quot;:11,
+  &quot;authorId&quot;:1,
+  &quot;inResponseTo&quot;:1,
+  &quot;senderLocation&quot;:[38.97,77.49],
+  &quot;message&quot;:&quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="SELECT_Clause"></a><a name="Select_clauses" id="Select_clauses">SELECT Clause</a></h2>
+<p>The SQL++ <tt>SELECT</tt> clause always returns a collection value as its result (even if the result is empty or a singleton).</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Select_Element.2FValue.2FRaw"></a><a name="Select_element" id="Select_element">Select Element/Value/Raw</a></h3>
+<p>The <tt>SELECT VALUE</tt> clause in SQL++ returns an array or multiset that contains the results of evaluating the <tt>VALUE</tt> expression, with one evaluation being performed per &#x201c;binding tuple&#x201d; (i.e., per <tt>FROM</tt> clause item) satisfying the statement&#x2019;s selection criteria. For historical reasons SQL++ also allows the keywords <tt>ELEMENT</tt> or <tt>RAW</tt> to be used in place of <tt>VALUE</tt> (not recommended).</p>
+<p>If there is no FROM clause, the expression after <tt>VALUE</tt> is evaluated once with no binding tuples (except those inherited from an outer environment).</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT VALUE 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  1
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example shows a query that selects one user from the GleambookUsers collection.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT VALUE user
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE user.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[{
+    &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+    &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+        2,
+        3,
+        6,
+        10
+    ],
+    &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot;,
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Mags&quot;,
+    &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+    &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+    &quot;employment&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+            &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;end-date&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+            &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+            &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+        }
+    ]
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="SQL-style_SELECT"></a><a name="SQL_select" id="SQL_select">SQL-style SELECT</a></h3>
+<p>In SQL++, the traditional SQL-style <tt>SELECT</tt> syntax is also supported. This syntax can also be reformulated in a <tt>SELECT VALUE</tt> based manner in SQL++. (E.g., <tt>SELECT expA AS fldA, expB AS fldB</tt> is syntactic sugar for <tt>SELECT VALUE { 'fldA': expA, 'fldB': expB }</tt>.) Unlike in SQL, the result of an SQL++ query does not preserve the order of expressions in the <tt>SELECT</tt> clause.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT user.alias user_alias, user.name user_name
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE user.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;user_name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;user_alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="SELECT_.2A"></a><a name="Select_star" id="Select_star">SELECT *</a></h3>
+<p>In SQL++, <tt>SELECT *</tt> returns a object with a nested field for each input tuple. Each field has as its field name the name of a binding variable generated by either the <tt>FROM</tt> clause or <tt>GROUP BY</tt> clause in the current enclosing <tt>SELECT</tt> statement, and its field value is the value of that binding variable.</p>
+<p>Note that the result of <tt>SELECT *</tt> is different from the result of query that selects all the fields of an object.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookUsers user;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Since <tt>user</tt> is the only binding variable generated in the <tt>FROM</tt> clause, this query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;user&quot;: {
+        &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+        &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+            2,
+            3,
+            6,
+            10
+        ],
+        &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot;,
+        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+        &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Mags&quot;,
+        &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+        &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+        &quot;employment&quot;: [
+            {
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+                &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+            },
+            {
+                &quot;end-date&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+                &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+}, {
+    &quot;user&quot;: {
+        &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2011-01-22T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+        &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+            1,
+            4
+        ],
+        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+        &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Izzy&quot;,
+        &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Isbel&quot;,
+        &quot;id&quot;: 2,
+        &quot;employment&quot;: [
+            {
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Hexviafind&quot;,
+                &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-04-27&quot;
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+}, {
+    &quot;user&quot;: {
+        &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-07-10T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+        &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+            1,
+            5,
+            8,
+            9
+        ],
+        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;EmoryUnk&quot;,
+        &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Emory&quot;,
+        &quot;id&quot;: 3,
+        &quot;employment&quot;: [
+            {
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+                &quot;endDate&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+                &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookUsers u, GleambookMessages m
+WHERE m.authorId = u.id and u.id = 2;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query does an inner join that we will discuss in <a href="#Multiple_from_terms">multiple from terms</a>. Since both <tt>u</tt> and <tt>m</tt> are binding variables generated in the <tt>FROM</tt> clause, this query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;u&quot;: {
+        &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2011-01-22T10:10:00&quot;,
+        &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+            1,
+            4
+        ],
+        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+        &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Izzy&quot;,
+        &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Isbel&quot;,
+        &quot;id&quot;: 2,
+        &quot;employment&quot;: [
+            {
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Hexviafind&quot;,
+                &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-04-27&quot;
+            }
+        ]
+    },
+    &quot;m&quot;: {
+        &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+            31.5,
+            75.56
+        ],
+        &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+        &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+        &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+        &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+    }
+}, {
+    &quot;u&quot;: {
+        &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2011-01-22T10:10:00&quot;,
+        &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+            1,
+            4
+        ],
+        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+        &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Izzy&quot;,
+        &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Isbel&quot;,
+        &quot;id&quot;: 2,
+        &quot;employment&quot;: [
+            {
+                &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Hexviafind&quot;,
+                &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-04-27&quot;
+            }
+        ]
+    },
+    &quot;m&quot;: {
+        &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+            48.09,
+            81.01
+        ],
+        &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+        &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+        &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+        &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+    }
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="SELECT_DISTINCT"></a><a name="Select_distinct" id="Select_distinct">SELECT DISTINCT</a></h3>
+<p>SQL++&#x2019;s <tt>DISTINCT</tt> keyword is used to eliminate duplicate items in results. The following example shows how it works.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT DISTINCT * FROM [1, 2, 2, 3] AS foo;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;foo&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;foo&quot;: 2
+}, {
+    &quot;foo&quot;: 3
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT DISTINCT VALUE foo FROM [1, 2, 2, 3] AS foo;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This version of the query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ 1
+, 2
+, 3
+ ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Unnamed_Projections"></a><a name="Unnamed_projections" id="Unnamed_projections">Unnamed Projections</a></h3>
+<p>Similar to standard SQL, SQL++ supports unnamed projections (a.k.a, unnamed <tt>SELECT</tt> clause items), for which names are generated. Name generation has three cases:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>If a projection expression is a variable reference expression, its generated name is the name of the variable.</li>
+<li>If a projection expression is a field access expression, its generated name is the last identifier in the expression.</li>
+<li>For all other cases, the query processor will generate a unique name.</li>
+</ul>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT substr(user.name, 10), user.alias
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE user.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query outputs:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+    &quot;$1&quot;: &quot;Stoddard&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In the result, <tt>$1</tt> is the generated name for <tt>substr(user.name, 1)</tt>, while <tt>alias</tt> is the generated name for <tt>user.alias</tt>.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Abbreviated_Field_Access_Expressions"></a><a name="Abbreviated_field_access_expressions" id="Abbreviated_field_access_expressions">Abbreviated Field Access Expressions</a></h3>
+<p>As in standard SQL, SQL++ field access expressions can be abbreviated (not recommended!) when there is no ambiguity. In the next example, the variable <tt>user</tt> is the only possible variable reference for fields <tt>id</tt>, <tt>name</tt> and <tt>alias</tt> and thus could be omitted in the query. More information on abbbreviated field access can be found in the appendix section on Variable Resolution.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT substr(name, 10) AS lname, alias
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Outputs:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;lname&quot;: &quot;Stoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="UNNEST_Clause"></a><a name="Unnest_clauses" id="Unnest_clauses">UNNEST Clause</a></h2>
+<p>For each of its input tuples, the <tt>UNNEST</tt> clause flattens a collection-valued expression into individual items, producing multiple tuples, each of which is one of the expression&#x2019;s original input tuples augmented with a flattened item from its collection.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Inner_UNNEST"></a><a name="Inner_unnests" id="Inner_unnests">Inner UNNEST</a></h3>
+<p>The following example is a query that retrieves the names of the organizations that a selected user has worked for. It uses the <tt>UNNEST</tt> clause to unnest the nested collection <tt>employment</tt> in the user&#x2019;s object.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.id AS userId, e.organizationName AS orgName
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+UNNEST u.employment e
+WHERE u.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;orgName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+    &quot;userId&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;orgName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+    &quot;userId&quot;: 1
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that <tt>UNNEST</tt> has SQL&#x2019;s inner join semantics &#x2014; that is, if a user has no employment history, no tuple corresponding to that user will be emitted in the result.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Left_Outer_UNNEST"></a><a name="Left_outer_unnests" id="Left_outer_unnests">Left Outer UNNEST</a></h3>
+<p>As an alternative, the <tt>LEFT OUTER UNNEST</tt> clause offers SQL&#x2019;s left outer join semantics. For example, no collection-valued field named <tt>hobbies</tt> exists in the object for the user whose id is 1, but the following query&#x2019;s result still includes user 1.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.id AS userId, h.hobbyName AS hobby
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+LEFT OUTER UNNEST u.hobbies h
+WHERE u.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;userId&quot;: 1
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that if <tt>u.hobbies</tt> is an empty collection or leads to a <tt>MISSING</tt> (as above) or <tt>NULL</tt> value for a given input tuple, there is no corresponding binding value for variable <tt>h</tt> for an input tuple. A <tt>MISSING</tt> value will be generated for <tt>h</tt> so that the input tuple can still be propagated.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Expressing_Joins_Using_UNNEST"></a><a name="Expressing_joins_using_unnests" id="Expressing_joins_using_unnests">Expressing Joins Using UNNEST</a></h3>
+<p>The SQL++ <tt>UNNEST</tt> clause is similar to SQL&#x2019;s <tt>JOIN</tt> clause except that it allows its right argument to be correlated to its left argument, as in the examples above &#x2014; i.e., think &#x201c;correlated cross-product&#x201d;. The next example shows this via a query that joins two data sets, GleambookUsers and GleambookMessages, returning user/message pairs. The results contain one object per pair, with result objects containing the user&#x2019;s name and an entire message. The query can be thought of as saying &#x201c;for each Gleambook user, unnest the <tt>GleambookMessages</tt> collection and filter the output with the condition <tt>message.authorId = user.id</tt>&#x201d;.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+UNNEST GleambookMessages m
+WHERE m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Similarly, the above query can also be expressed as the <tt>UNNEST</tt>ing of a correlated SQL++ subquery:</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+UNNEST (
+    SELECT VALUE msg
+    FROM GleambookMessages msg
+    WHERE msg.authorId = u.id
+) AS m;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="FROM_clauses"></a><a name="From_clauses" id="From_clauses">FROM clauses</a></h2>
+<p>A <tt>FROM</tt> clause is used for enumerating (i.e., conceptually iterating over) the contents of collections, as in SQL.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Binding_expressions" id="Binding_expressions">Binding expressions</a></h3>
+<p>In SQL++, in addition to stored collections, a <tt>FROM</tt> clause can iterate over any intermediate collection returned by a valid SQL++ expression. In the tuple stream generated by a <tt>FROM</tt> clause, the ordering of the input tuples are not guaranteed to be preserved.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT VALUE foo
+FROM [1, 2, 2, 3] AS foo
+WHERE foo &gt; 2;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  3
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Multiple_FROM_Terms"></a><a name="Multiple_from_terms" id="Multiple_from_terms">Multiple FROM Terms</a></h3>
+<p>SQL++ permits correlations among <tt>FROM</tt> terms. Specifically, a <tt>FROM</tt> binding expression can refer to variables defined to its left in the given <tt>FROM</tt> clause. Thus, the first unnesting example above could also be expressed as follows:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.id AS userId, e.organizationName AS orgName
+FROM GleambookUsers u, u.employment e
+WHERE u.id = 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Expressing_Joins_Using_FROM_Terms"></a><a name="Expressing_joins_using_from_terms" id="Expressing_joins_using_from_terms">Expressing Joins Using FROM Terms</a></h3>
+<p>Similarly, the join intentions of the other <tt>UNNEST</tt>-based join examples above could be expressed as:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u, GleambookMessages m
+WHERE m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u,
+  (
+    SELECT VALUE msg
+    FROM GleambookMessages msg
+    WHERE msg.authorId = u.id
+  ) AS m;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that the first alternative is one of the SQL-92 approaches to expressing a join.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Implicit_Binding_Variables"></a><a name="Implicit_binding_variables" id="Implicit_binding_variables">Implicit Binding Variables</a></h3>
+<p>Similar to standard SQL, SQL++ supports implicit <tt>FROM</tt> binding variables (i.e., aliases), for which a binding variable is generated. SQL++ variable generation falls into three cases:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>If the binding expression is a variable reference expression, the generated variable&#x2019;s name will be the name of the referenced variable itself.</li>
+<li>If the binding expression is a field access expression (or a fully qualified name for a dataset), the generated variable&#x2019;s name will be the last identifier (or the dataset name) in the expression.</li>
+<li>For all other cases, a compilation error will be raised.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The next two examples show queries that do not provide binding variables in their <tt>FROM</tt> clauses.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT GleambookUsers.name, GleambookMessages.message
+FROM GleambookUsers, GleambookMessages
+WHERE GleambookMessages.authorId = GleambookUsers.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT GleambookUsers.name, GleambookMessages.message
+FROM GleambookUsers,
+  (
+    SELECT VALUE GleambookMessages
+    FROM GleambookMessages
+    WHERE GleambookMessages.authorId = GleambookUsers.id
+  );
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: &quot;Syntax error: Need an alias for the enclosed expression:\n(select element GleambookMessages\n    from GleambookMessages as GleambookMessages\n    where (GleambookMessages.authorId = GleambookUsers.id)\n )&quot;,
+    &quot;query_from_user&quot;: &quot;use TinySocial;\n\nSELECT GleambookUsers.name, GleambookMessages.message\n    FROM GleambookUsers,\n      (\n        SELECT VALUE GleambookMessages\n        FROM GleambookMessages\n        WHERE GleambookMessages.authorId = GleambookUsers.id\n      );&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>More information on implicit binding variables can be found in the appendix section on Variable Resolution.</p></div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="JOIN_Clauses"></a><a name="Join_clauses" id="Join_clauses">JOIN Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>The join clause in SQL++ supports both inner joins and left outer joins from standard SQL.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Inner_joins" id="Inner_joins">Inner joins</a></h3>
+<p>Using a <tt>JOIN</tt> clause, the inner join intent from the preceeding examples can also be expressed as follows:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u JOIN GleambookMessages m ON m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Left_Outer_Joins"></a><a name="Left_outer_joins" id="Left_outer_joins">Left Outer Joins</a></h3>
+<p>SQL++ supports SQL&#x2019;s notion of left outer join. The following query is an example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u LEFT OUTER JOIN GleambookMessages m ON m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;EmoryUnk&quot;
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>For non-matching left-side tuples, SQL++ produces <tt>MISSING</tt> values for the right-side binding variables; that is why the last object in the above result doesn&#x2019;t have a <tt>message</tt> field. Note that this is slightly different from standard SQL, which instead would fill in <tt>NULL</tt> values for the right-side fields. The reason for this difference is that, for non-matches in its join results, SQL++ views fields from the right-side as being &#x201c;not there&#x201d; (a.k.a. <tt>MISSING</tt>) instead of as being &#x201c;there but unknown&#x201d; (i.e., <tt>NULL</tt>).</p>
+<p>The left-outer join query can also be expressed using <tt>LEFT OUTER UNNEST</tt>:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+LEFT OUTER UNNEST (
+    SELECT VALUE message
+    FROM GleambookMessages message
+    WHERE message.authorId = u.id
+  ) m;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In general, in SQL++, SQL-style join queries can also be expressed by <tt>UNNEST</tt> clauses and left outer join queries can be expressed by <tt>LEFT OUTER UNNESTs</tt>.</p></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="GROUP_BY_Clauses"></a><a name="Group_By_clauses" id="Group_By_clauses">GROUP BY Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>The SQL++ <tt>GROUP BY</tt> clause generalizes standard SQL&#x2019;s grouping and aggregation semantics, but it also retains backward compatibility with the standard (relational) SQL <tt>GROUP BY</tt> and aggregation features.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Group_variables" id="Group_variables">Group variables</a></h3>
+<p>In a <tt>GROUP BY</tt> clause, in addition to the binding variable(s) defined for the grouping key(s), SQL++ allows a user to define a <i>group variable</i> by using the clause&#x2019;s <tt>GROUP AS</tt> extension to denote the resulting group. After grouping, then, the query&#x2019;s in-scope variables include the grouping key&#x2019;s binding variables as well as this group variable which will be bound to one collection value for each group. This per-group collection (i.e., multiset) value will be a set of nested objects in which each field of the object is the result of a renamed variable defined in parentheses following the group variable&#x2019;s name. The <tt>GROUP AS</tt> syntax is as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">&lt;GROUP&gt; &lt;AS&gt; Variable (&quot;(&quot; VariableReference &lt;AS&gt; Identifier (&quot;,&quot; VariableReference &lt;AS&gt; Identifier )* &quot;)&quot;)?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookMessages message
+GROUP BY message.authorId AS uid GROUP AS msgs(message AS msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This first example query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    38.97,
+                    77.49
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 11,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    41.66,
+                    80.87
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 2,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    37.73,
+                    97.04
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 2,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 4,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    40.33,
+                    80.87
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 11,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 8,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    42.5,
+                    70.01
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 12,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 10,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    31.5,
+                    75.56
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;msg&quot;: {
+                &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                    48.09,
+                    81.01
+                ],
+                &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+                &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+                &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+                &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>As we can see from the above query result, each group in the example query&#x2019;s output has an associated group variable value called <tt>msgs</tt> that appears in the <tt>SELECT *</tt>&#x2019;s result. This variable contains a collection of objects associated with the group; each of the group&#x2019;s <tt>message</tt> values appears in the <tt>msg</tt> field of the objects in the <tt>msgs</tt> collection.</p>
+<p>The group variable in SQL++ makes more complex, composable, nested subqueries over a group possible, which is important given the more complex data model of SQL++ (relative to SQL). As a simple example of this, as we really just want the messages associated with each user, we might wish to avoid the &#x201c;extra wrapping&#x201d; of each message as the <tt>msg</tt> field of a object. (That wrapping is useful in more complex cases, but is essentially just in the way here.) We can use a subquery in the <tt>SELECT</tt> clase to tunnel through the extra nesting and produce the desired result.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid, (SELECT VALUE g.msg FROM g) AS msgs
+FROM GleambookMessages gbm
+GROUP BY gbm.authorId AS uid
+GROUP AS g(gbm as msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This variant of the example query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">   [ {
+       &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   38.97,
+                   77.49
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 11,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+           },
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   41.66,
+                   80.87
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 2,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+           },
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   37.73,
+                   97.04
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 2,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 4,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+           },
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   40.33,
+                   80.87
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 11,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 8,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+           },
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   42.5,
+                   70.01
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 12,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 10,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+           }
+       ],
+       &quot;uid&quot;: 1
+   }, {
+       &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   31.5,
+                   75.56
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+           },
+           {
+               &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                   48.09,
+                   81.01
+               ],
+               &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+               &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+               &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+               &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+           }
+       ],
+       &quot;uid&quot;: 2
+   } ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The next example shows a more interesting case involving the use of a subquery in the <tt>SELECT</tt> list. Here the subquery further processes the groups. There is no renaming in the declaration of the group variable <tt>g</tt> such that <tt>g</tt> only has one field <tt>gbm</tt> which comes from the <tt>FROM</tt> clause.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid,
+       (SELECT VALUE g.gbm
+        FROM g
+        WHERE g.gbm.message LIKE '% like%'
+        ORDER BY g.gbm.messageId
+        LIMIT 2) AS msgs
+FROM GleambookMessages gbm
+GROUP BY gbm.authorId AS uid
+GROUP AS g;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This example query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                40.33,
+                80.87
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 11,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 8,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                48.09,
+                81.01
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                31.5,
+                75.56
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Implicit_Grouping_Key_Variables"></a><a name="Implicit_group_key_variables" id="Implicit_group_key_variables">Implicit Grouping Key Variables</a></h3>
+<p>In the SQL++ syntax, providing named binding variables for <tt>GROUP BY</tt> key expressions is optional. If a grouping key is missing a user-provided binding variable, the underlying compiler will generate one. Automatic grouping key variable naming falls into three cases in SQL++, much like the treatment of unnamed projections:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>If the grouping key expression is a variable reference expression, the generated variable gets the same name as the referred variable;</li>
+<li>If the grouping key expression is a field access expression, the generated variable gets the same name as the last identifier in the expression;</li>
+<li>For all other cases, the compiler generates a unique variable (but the user query is unable to refer to this generated variable).</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The next example illustrates a query that doesn&#x2019;t provide binding variables for its grouping key expressions.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT authorId,
+       (SELECT VALUE g.gbm
+        FROM g
+        WHERE g.gbm.message LIKE '% like%'
+        ORDER BY g.gbm.messageId
+        LIMIT 2) AS msgs
+FROM GleambookMessages gbm
+GROUP BY gbm.authorId
+GROUP AS g;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    [ {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                40.33,
+                80.87
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 11,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 8,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;authorId&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                48.09,
+                81.01
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                31.5,
+                75.56
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;authorId&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Based on the three variable generation rules, the generated variable for the grouping key expression <tt>message.authorId</tt> is <tt>authorId</tt> (which is how it is referred to in the example&#x2019;s <tt>SELECT</tt> clause).</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Implicit_Group_Variables"></a><a name="Implicit_group_variables" id="Implicit_group_variables">Implicit Group Variables</a></h3>
+<p>The group variable itself is also optional in SQL++&#x2019;s <tt>GROUP BY</tt> syntax. If a user&#x2019;s query does not declare the name and structure of the group variable using <tt>GROUP AS</tt>, the query compiler will generate a unique group variable whose fields include all of the binding variables defined in the <tt>FROM</tt> clause of the current enclosing <tt>SELECT</tt> statement. In this case the user&#x2019;s query will not be able to refer to the generated group variable, but is able to call SQL-92 aggregation functions as in SQL-92.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Aggregation_Functions"></a><a name="Aggregation_functions" id="Aggregation_functions">Aggregation Functions</a></h3>
+<p>In the traditional SQL, which doesn&#x2019;t support nested data, grouping always also involves the use of aggregation to compute properties of the groups (for example, the average number of messages per user rather than the actual set of messages per user). Each aggregation function in SQL++ takes a collection (for example, the group of messages) as its input and produces a scalar value as its output. These aggregation functions, being truly functional in nature (unlike in SQL), can be used anywhere in a query where an expression is allowed. The following table catalogs the SQL++ built-in aggregation functions and also indicates how each one handles <tt>NULL</tt>/<tt>MISSING</tt> values in the input collection or a completely empty input collection:</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Function       </th>
+<th> NULL         </th>
+<th> MISSING      </th>
+<th> Empty Collection </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> COLL_COUNT     </td>
+<td> counted      </td>
+<td> counted      </td>
+<td> 0                </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> COLL_SUM       </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> COLL_MAX       </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> COLL_MIN       </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> COLL_AVG       </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ARRAY_COUNT    </td>
+<td> not counted  </td>
+<td> not counted  </td>
+<td> 0                </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> ARRAY_SUM      </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ARRAY_MAX      </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> ARRAY_MIN      </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ARRAY_AVG      </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> ignores NULL </td>
+<td> returns NULL     </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>Notice that SQL++ has twice as many functions listed above as there are aggregate functions in SQL-92. This is because SQL++ offers two versions of each &#x2013; one that handles <tt>UNKNOWN</tt> values in a semantically strict fashion, where unknown values in the input result in unknown values in the output &#x2013; and one that handles them in the ad hoc &#x201c;just ignore the unknown values&#x201d; fashion that the SQL standard chose to adopt.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ARRAY_AVG(
+    (
+      SELECT VALUE ARRAY_COUNT(friendIds) FROM GleambookUsers
+    )
+);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This example returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">3.3333333333333335
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid AS uid, ARRAY_COUNT(grp) AS msgCnt
+FROM GleambookMessages message
+GROUP BY message.authorId AS uid
+GROUP AS grp(message AS msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 1,
+    &quot;msgCnt&quot;: 5
+}, {
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 2,
+    &quot;msgCnt&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Notice how the query forms groups where each group involves a message author and their messages. (SQL cannot do this because the grouped intermediate result is non-1NF in nature.) The query then uses the collection aggregate function ARRAY_COUNT to get the cardinality of each group of messages.</p>
+<p>Each aggregation function in SQL++ supports DISTINCT modifier that removes duplicate values from the input collection.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">ARRAY_SUM(DISTINCT [1, 1, 2, 2, 3])
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">6
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="SQL-92_Aggregation_Functions"></a><a name="SQL-92_aggregation_functions" id="SQL-92_aggregation_functions">SQL-92 Aggregation Functions</a></h3>
+<p>For compatibility with the traditional SQL aggregation functions, SQL++ also offers SQL-92&#x2019;s aggregation function symbols (<tt>COUNT</tt>, <tt>SUM</tt>, <tt>MAX</tt>, <tt>MIN</tt>, and <tt>AVG</tt>) as supported syntactic sugar. The SQL++ compiler rewrites queries that utilize these function symbols into SQL++ queries that only use the SQL++ collection aggregate functions. The following example uses the SQL-92 syntax approach to compute a result that is identical to that of the more explicit SQL++ example above:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid, COUNT(*) AS msgCnt
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId AS uid;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>It is important to realize that <tt>COUNT</tt> is actually <b>not</b> a SQL++ built-in aggregation function. Rather, the <tt>COUNT</tt> query above is using a special &#x201c;sugared&#x201d; function symbol that the SQL++ compiler will rewrite as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid AS uid, ARRAY_COUNT( (SELECT VALUE 1 FROM `$1` as g) ) AS msgCnt
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId AS uid
+GROUP AS `$1`(msg AS msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The same sort of rewritings apply to the function symbols <tt>SUM</tt>, <tt>MAX</tt>, <tt>MIN</tt>, and <tt>AVG</tt>. In contrast to the SQL++ collection aggregate functions, these special SQL-92 function symbols can only be used in the same way they are in standard SQL (i.e., with the same restrictions).</p>
+<p>DISTINCT modifier is also supported for these aggregate functions.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="SQL-92_Compliant_GROUP_BY_Aggregations"></a><a name="SQL-92_compliant_gby" id="SQL-92_compliant_gby">SQL-92 Compliant GROUP BY Aggregations</a></h3>
+<p>SQL++ provides full support for SQL-92 <tt>GROUP BY</tt> aggregation queries. The following query is such an example:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT msg.authorId, COUNT(*)
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query outputs:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+    &quot;$1&quot;: 5
+}, {
+    &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+    &quot;$1&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In principle, a <tt>msg</tt> reference in the query&#x2019;s <tt>SELECT</tt> clause would be &#x201c;sugarized&#x201d; as a collection (as described in <a href="#Implicit_group_variables">Implicit Group Variables</a>). However, since the SELECT expression <tt>msg.authorId</tt> is syntactically identical to a GROUP BY key expression, it will be internally replaced by the generated group key variable. The following is the equivalent rewritten query that will be generated by the compiler for the query above:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT authorId AS authorId, ARRAY_COUNT( (SELECT g.msg FROM `$1` AS g) )
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId AS authorId
+GROUP AS `$1`(msg AS msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Column_Aliases"></a><a name="Column_aliases" id="Column_aliases">Column Aliases</a></h3>
+<p>SQL++ also allows column aliases to be used as <tt>ORDER BY</tt> keys.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT msg.authorId AS aid, COUNT(*)
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId;
+ORDER BY aid;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;$1&quot;: 5,
+    &quot;aid&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;$1&quot;: 2,
+    &quot;aid&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="WHERE_Clauses_and_HAVING_Clauses"></a><a name="Where_having_clauses" id="Where_having_clauses">WHERE Clauses and HAVING Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>Both <tt>WHERE</tt> clauses and <tt>HAVING</tt> clauses are used to filter input data based on a condition expression. Only tuples for which the condition expression evaluates to <tt>TRUE</tt> are propagated. Note that if the condition expression evaluates to <tt>NULL</tt> or <tt>MISSING</tt> the input tuple will be disgarded.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="ORDER_BY_Clauses"></a><a name="Order_By_clauses" id="Order_By_clauses">ORDER BY Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>The <tt>ORDER BY</tt> clause is used to globally sort data in either ascending order (i.e., <tt>ASC</tt>) or descending order (i.e., <tt>DESC</tt>). During ordering, <tt>MISSING</tt> and <tt>NULL</tt> are treated as being smaller than any other value if they are encountered in the ordering key(s). <tt>MISSING</tt> is treated as smaller than <tt>NULL</tt> if both occur in the data being sorted. The ordering of values of a given type is consistent with its type&#x2019;s &lt;= ordering; the ordering of values across types is implementation-defined but stable. The following example returns all <tt>GleambookUsers</tt> in descending order by their number of friends.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">  SELECT VALUE user
+  FROM GleambookUsers AS user
+  ORDER BY ARRAY_COUNT(user.friendIds) DESC;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">  [ {
+      &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+      &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+          2,
+          3,
+          6,
+          10
+      ],
+      &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot;,
+      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+      &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Mags&quot;,
+      &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+      &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+      &quot;employment&quot;: [
+          {
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+              &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+          },
+          {
+              &quot;end-date&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+              &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+          }
+      ]
+  }, {
+      &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-07-10T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+      &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+          1,
+          5,
+          8,
+          9
+      ],
+      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;EmoryUnk&quot;,
+      &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Emory&quot;,
+      &quot;id&quot;: 3,
+      &quot;employment&quot;: [
+          {
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+              &quot;endDate&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+              &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+          }
+      ]
+  }, {
+      &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2011-01-22T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+      &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+          1,
+          4
+      ],
+      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+      &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Izzy&quot;,
+      &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Isbel&quot;,
+      &quot;id&quot;: 2,
+      &quot;employment&quot;: [
+          {
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Hexviafind&quot;,
+              &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-04-27&quot;
+          }
+      ]
+  } ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="LIMIT_Clauses"></a><a name="Limit_clauses" id="Limit_clauses">LIMIT Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>The <tt>LIMIT</tt> clause is used to limit the result set to a specified constant size. The use of the <tt>LIMIT</tt> clause is illustrated in the next example.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">  SELECT VALUE user
+  FROM GleambookUsers AS user
+  ORDER BY len(user.friendIds) DESC
+  LIMIT 1;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">  [ {
+      &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+      &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+          2,
+          3,
+          6,
+          10
+      ],
+      &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot;,
+      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+      &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Mags&quot;,
+      &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+      &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+      &quot;employment&quot;: [
+          {
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+              &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+          },
+          {
+              &quot;end-date&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+              &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+              &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+          }
+      ]
+  } ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="WITH_Clauses"></a><a name="With_clauses" id="With_clauses">WITH Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>As in standard SQL, <tt>WITH</tt> clauses are available to improve the modularity of a query. The next query shows an example.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">WITH avgFriendCount AS (
+  SELECT VALUE AVG(ARRAY_COUNT(user.friendIds))
+  FROM GleambookUsers AS user
+)[0]
+SELECT VALUE user
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE ARRAY_COUNT(user.friendIds) &gt; avgFriendCount;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-08-20T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+    &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+        2,
+        3,
+        6,
+        10
+    ],
+    &quot;gender&quot;: &quot;F&quot;,
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;nickname&quot;: &quot;Mags&quot;,
+    &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Margarita&quot;,
+    &quot;id&quot;: 1,
+    &quot;employment&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;Codetechno&quot;,
+            &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2006-08-06&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;end-date&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+            &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+            &quot;start-date&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+        }
+    ]
+}, {
+    &quot;userSince&quot;: &quot;2012-07-10T10:10:00.000Z&quot;,
+    &quot;friendIds&quot;: [
+        1,
+        5,
+        8,
+        9
+    ],
+    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;EmoryUnk&quot;,
+    &quot;alias&quot;: &quot;Emory&quot;,
+    &quot;id&quot;: 3,
+    &quot;employment&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;organizationName&quot;: &quot;geomedia&quot;,
+            &quot;endDate&quot;: &quot;2010-01-26&quot;,
+            &quot;startDate&quot;: &quot;2010-06-17&quot;
+        }
+    ]
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The query is equivalent to the following, more complex, inlined form of the query:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE ARRAY_COUNT(user.friendIds) &gt;
+    ( SELECT VALUE AVG(ARRAY_COUNT(user.friendIds))
+      FROM GleambookUsers AS user
+    ) [0];
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>WITH can be particularly useful when a value needs to be used several times in a query.</p>
+<p>Before proceeding further, notice that both  the WITH query and its equivalent inlined variant include the syntax &#x201c;[0]&#x201d; &#x2013; this is due to a noteworthy difference between SQL++ and SQL-92. In SQL-92, whenever a scalar value is expected and it is being produced by a query expression, the SQL-92 query processor will evaluate the expression, check that there is only one row and column in the result at runtime, and then coerce the one-row/one-column tabular result into a scalar value. SQL++, being designed to deal with nested data and schema-less data, does not (and should not) do this. Collection-valued data is perfectly legal in most SQL++ contexts, and its data is schema-less, so a query processor rarely knows exactly what to expect where and such automatic conversion is often not desirable. Thus, in the queries above, the use of &#x201c;[0]&#x201d; extracts the first (i.e., 0th) element of an array-valued query expression&#x2019;s result; this is needed above, even though the result is an array of one element, to extract the only element in the singleton array and obtain the desired scalar for the comparison.</p></div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="LET_Clauses"></a><a name="Let_clauses" id="Let_clauses">LET Clauses</a></h2>
+<p>Similar to <tt>WITH</tt> clauses, <tt>LET</tt> clauses can be useful when a (complex) expression is used several times within a query, allowing it to be written once to make the query more concise. The next query shows an example.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, messages AS messages
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+LET messages = (SELECT VALUE m
+                FROM GleambookMessages m
+                WHERE m.authorId = u.id)
+WHERE EXISTS messages;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query lists <tt>GleambookUsers</tt> that have posted <tt>GleambookMessages</tt> and shows all authored messages for each listed user. It returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;MargaritaStoddard&quot;,
+    &quot;messages&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                38.97,
+                77.49
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 11,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast its plan is terrible&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                41.66,
+                80.87
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                37.73,
+                97.04
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand acast the network is horrible:(&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                40.33,
+                80.87
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 11,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 8,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like ccast the 3G is awesome:)&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                42.5,
+                70.01
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 12,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 10,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; can't stand product-w the touch-screen is terrible&quot;
+        }
+    ]
+}, {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;,
+    &quot;messages&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                31.5,
+                75.56
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 6,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+        },
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                48.09,
+                81.01
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 3,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+        }
+    ]
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query is equivalent to the following query that does not use the <tt>LET</tt> clause:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname, ( SELECT VALUE m
+                          FROM GleambookMessages m
+                          WHERE m.authorId = u.id
+                        ) AS messages
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT VALUE m
+               FROM GleambookMessages m
+               WHERE m.authorId = u.id
+             );
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="UNION_ALL"></a><a name="Union_all" id="Union_all">UNION ALL</a></h2>
+<p>UNION ALL can be used to combine two input arrays or multisets into one. As in SQL, there is no ordering guarantee on the contents of the output stream. However, unlike SQL, SQL++ does not constrain what the data looks like on the input streams; in particular, it allows heterogenity on the input and output streams. A type error will be raised if one of the inputs is not a collection. The following odd but legal query is an example:</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT u.name AS uname
+FROM GleambookUsers u
+WHERE u.id = 2
+  UNION ALL
+SELECT VALUE m.message
+FROM GleambookMessages m
+WHERE authorId=2;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>This query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[
+  &quot; like product-z its platform is mind-blowing&quot;
+  , {
+    &quot;uname&quot;: &quot;IsbelDull&quot;
+}, &quot; like product-y the plan is amazing&quot;
+ ]
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Subqueries" id="Subqueries">Subqueries</a></h2>
+<p>In SQL++, an arbitrary subquery can appear anywhere that an expression can appear. Unlike SQL-92, as was just alluded to, the subqueries in a SELECT list or a boolean predicate need not return singleton, single-column relations. Instead, they may return arbitrary collections. For example, the following query is a variant of the prior group-by query examples; it retrieves an array of up to two &#x201c;dislike&#x201d; messages per user.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT uid,
+       (SELECT VALUE m.msg
+        FROM msgs m
+        WHERE m.msg.message LIKE '%dislike%'
+        ORDER BY m.msg.messageId
+        LIMIT 2) AS msgs
+FROM GleambookMessages message
+GROUP BY message.authorId AS uid GROUP AS msgs(message AS msg);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>For our sample data set, this query returns:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+        {
+            &quot;senderLocation&quot;: [
+                41.66,
+                80.87
+            ],
+            &quot;inResponseTo&quot;: 4,
+            &quot;messageId&quot;: 2,
+            &quot;authorId&quot;: 1,
+            &quot;message&quot;: &quot; dislike x-phone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;
+        }
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 1
+}, {
+    &quot;msgs&quot;: [
+
+    ],
+    &quot;uid&quot;: 2
+} ]
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Note that a subquery, like a top-level <tt>SELECT</tt> statment, always returns a collection &#x2013; regardless of where within a query the subquery occurs &#x2013; and again, its result is never automatically cast into a scalar.</p></div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="SQL.2B.2B_vs._SQL-92"></a><a name="Vs_SQL-92" id="Vs_SQL-92">SQL++ vs. SQL-92</a></h2>
+<p>SQL++ offers the following additional features beyond SQL-92 (hence the &#x201c;++&#x201d; in its name):</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Fully composable and functional: A subquery can iterate over any intermediate collection and can appear anywhere in a query.</li>
+<li>Schema-free: The query language does not assume the existence of a static schema for any data that it processes.</li>
+<li>Correlated FROM terms: A right-side FROM term expression can refer to variables defined by FROM terms on its left.</li>
+<li>Powerful GROUP BY: In addition to a set of aggregate functions as in standard SQL, the groups created by the <tt>GROUP BY</tt> clause are directly usable in nested queries and/or to obtain nested results.</li>
+<li>Generalized SELECT clause: A SELECT clause can return any type of collection, while in SQL-92, a <tt>SELECT</tt> clause has to return a (homogeneous) collection of objects.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The following matrix is a quick &#x201c;SQL-92 compatibility cheat sheet&#x201d; for SQL++.</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th> Feature </th>
+<th>  SQL++ </th>
+<th> SQL-92 </th>
+<th>  Why different?  </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> SELECT * </td>
+<td> Returns nested objects </td>
+<td> Returns flattened concatenated objects </td>
+<td> Nested collections are 1st class citizens </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> SELECT list </td>
+<td> order not preserved </td>
+<td> order preserved </td>
+<td> Fields in a JSON object are not ordered </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> Subquery </td>
+<td> Returns a collection  </td>
+<td> The returned collection is cast into a scalar value if the subquery appears in a SELECT list or on one side of a comparison or as input to a function </td>
+<td> Nested collections are 1st class citizens </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> LEFT OUTER JOIN </td>
+<td>  Fills in <tt>MISSING</tt>(s) for non-matches  </td>
+<td>   Fills in <tt>NULL</tt>(s) for non-matches    </td>
+<td> &#x201c;Absence&#x201d; is more appropriate than &#x201c;unknown&#x201d; here  </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> UNION ALL       </td>
+<td> Allows heterogeneous inputs and output </td>
+<td> Input streams must be UNION-compatible and output field names are drawn from the first input stream </td>
+<td> Heterogenity and nested collections are common </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> IN constant_expr </td>
+<td> The constant expression has to be an array or multiset, i.e., [..,..,&#x2026;] </td>
+<td> The constant collection can be represented as comma-separated items in a paren pair </td>
+<td> Nested collections are 1st class citizens </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> String literal </td>
+<td> Double quotes or single quotes </td>
+<td> Single quotes only </td>
+<td> Double quoted strings are pervasive </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> Delimited identifiers </td>
+<td> Backticks </td>
+<td> Double quotes </td>
+<td> Double quoted strings are pervasive </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The following SQL-92 features are not implemented yet. However, SQL++ does not conflict with these features:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>CROSS JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, UNION JOIN</li>
+<li>RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN</li>
+<li>INTERSECT, EXCEPT, UNION with set semantics</li>
+<li>CAST expression</li>
+<li>COALESCE expression</li>
+<li>ALL and SOME predicates for linking to subqueries</li>
+<li>UNIQUE predicate (tests a collection for duplicates)</li>
+<li>MATCH predicate (tests for referential integrity)</li>
+<li>Row and Table constructors</li>
+<li>Preserved order for expressions in a SELECT list</li>
+</ul><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<h1><a name="Errors" id="Errors">4. Errors</a></h1><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<p>A SQL++ query can potentially result in one of the following errors:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>syntax error,</li>
+<li>identifier resolution error,</li>
+<li>type error,</li>
+<li>resource error.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>If the query processor runs into any error, it will terminate the ongoing processing of the query and immediately return an error message to the client.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Syntax_Errors"></a><a name="Syntax_errors" id="Syntax_errors">Syntax Errors</a></h2>
+<p>An valid SQL++ query must satisfy the SQL++ grammar rules. Otherwise, a syntax error will be raised.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+GleambookUsers user
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Since the query misses a <tt>FROM</tt> keyword before the dataset <tt>GleambookUsers</tt>, we will get a syntax error as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Syntax error: In line 2 &gt;&gt;GleambookUsers user;&lt;&lt; Encountered &lt;IDENTIFIER&gt; \&quot;GleambookUsers\&quot; at column 1.
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookUsers user
+WHERE type=&quot;advertiser&quot;;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Since &#x201c;type&#x201d; is a reserved keyword in the SQL++ parser, we will get a syntax error as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: Syntax error: In line 3 &gt;&gt;WHERE type=&quot;advertiser&quot;;&lt;&lt; Encountered 'type' &quot;type&quot; at column 7.
+==&gt; WHERE type=&quot;advertiser&quot;;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Identifier_Resolution_Errors"></a><a name="Identifier_resolution_errors" id="Identifier_resolution_errors">Identifier Resolution Errors</a></h2>
+<p>Referring to an undefined identifier can cause an error if the identifier cannot be successfully resolved as a valid field access.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT *
+FROM GleambookUser user;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>If we have a typo as above in &#x201c;GleambookUsers&#x201d; that misses the dataset name&#x2019;s ending &#x201c;s&#x201d;, we will get an identifier resolution error as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: Cannot find dataset GleambookUser in dataverse Default nor an alias with name GleambookUser!
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT name, message
+FROM GleambookUsers u JOIN GleambookMessages m ON m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>If the compiler cannot figure out how to resolve an unqualified field name, which will occur if there is more than one variable in scope (e.g., <tt>GleambookUsers u</tt> and <tt>GleambookMessages m</tt> as above), we will get an identifier resolution error as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: Cannot resolve ambiguous alias reference for undefined identifier name
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Type_Errors"></a><a name="Type_errors" id="Type_errors">Type Errors</a></h2>
+<p>The SQL++ compiler does type checks based on its available type information. In addition, the SQL++ runtime also reports type errors if a data model instance it processes does not satisfy the type requirement.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">abs(&quot;123&quot;);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Since function <tt>abs</tt> can only process numeric input values, we will get a type error as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: Type mismatch: function abs expects its 1st input parameter to be type tinyint, smallint, integer, bigint, float or double, but the actual input type is string
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Resource_Errors"></a><a name="Resource_errors" id="Resource_errors">Resource Errors</a></h2>
+<p>A query can potentially exhaust system resources, such as the number of open files and disk spaces. For instance, the following two resource errors could be potentially be seen when running the system:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Error: no space left on device
+Error: too many open files
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The &#x201c;no space left on device&#x201d; issue usually can be fixed by cleaning up disk spaces and reserving more disk spaces for the system. The &#x201c;too many open files&#x201d; issue usually can be fixed by a system administrator, following the instructions <a class="externalLink" href="https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/increase-open-files-limit/">here</a>.</p><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<h1><a name="DDL_and_DML_statements" id="DDL_and_DML_statements">5. DDL and DML statements</a></h1>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">Statement ::= ( ( SingleStatement )? ( &quot;;&quot; )+ )* &lt;EOF&gt;
+SingleStatement ::= DatabaseDeclaration
+                  | FunctionDeclaration
+                  | CreateStatement
+                  | DropStatement
+                  | LoadStatement
+                  | SetStatement
+                  | InsertStatement
+                  | DeleteStatement
+                  | Query
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In addition to queries, an implementation of SQL++ needs to support statements for data definition and manipulation purposes as well as controlling the context to be used in evaluating SQL++ expressions. This section details the DDL and DML statements supported in the SQL++ language as realized today in Apache AsterixDB.</p><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Lifecycle_Management_Statements"></a><a name="Lifecycle_management_statements" id="Lifecycle_management_statements">Lifecycle Management Statements</a></h2>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CreateStatement ::= &quot;CREATE&quot; ( DatabaseSpecification
+                             | TypeSpecification
+                             | DatasetSpecification
+                             | IndexSpecification
+                             | FunctionSpecification )
+
+QualifiedName       ::= Identifier ( &quot;.&quot; Identifier )?
+DoubleQualifiedName ::= Identifier &quot;.&quot; Identifier ( &quot;.&quot; Identifier )?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The CREATE statement in SQL++ is used for creating dataverses as well as other persistent artifacts in a dataverse. It can be used to create new dataverses, datatypes, datasets, indexes, and user-defined SQL++ functions.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Dataverses" id="Dataverses"> Dataverses</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DatabaseSpecification ::= &quot;DATAVERSE&quot; Identifier IfNotExists
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The CREATE DATAVERSE statement is used to create new dataverses. To ease the authoring of reusable SQL++ scripts, an optional IF NOT EXISTS clause is included to allow creation to be requested either unconditionally or only if the dataverse does not already exist. If this clause is absent, an error is returned if a dataverse with the indicated name already exists.</p>
+<p>The following example creates a new dataverse named TinySocial if one does not already exist.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE DATAVERSE TinySocial IF NOT EXISTS;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Types" id="Types"> Types</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">TypeSpecification    ::= &quot;TYPE&quot; FunctionOrTypeName IfNotExists &quot;AS&quot; ObjectTypeDef
+FunctionOrTypeName   ::= QualifiedName
+IfNotExists          ::= ( &lt;IF&gt; &lt;NOT&gt; &lt;EXISTS&gt; )?
+TypeExpr             ::= ObjectTypeDef | TypeReference | ArrayTypeDef | MultisetTypeDef
+ObjectTypeDef        ::= ( &lt;CLOSED&gt; | &lt;OPEN&gt; )? &quot;{&quot; ( ObjectField ( &quot;,&quot; ObjectField )* )? &quot;}&quot;
+ObjectField          ::= Identifier &quot;:&quot; ( TypeExpr ) ( &quot;?&quot; )?
+NestedField          ::= Identifier ( &quot;.&quot; Identifier )*
+IndexField           ::= NestedField ( &quot;:&quot; TypeReference )?
+TypeReference        ::= Identifier
+ArrayTypeDef         ::= &quot;[&quot; ( TypeExpr ) &quot;]&quot;
+MultisetTypeDef      ::= &quot;{{&quot; ( TypeExpr ) &quot;}}&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The CREATE TYPE statement is used to create a new named datatype. This type can then be used to create stored collections or utilized when defining one or more other datatypes. Much more information about the data model is available in the <a href="../datamodel.html">data model reference guide</a>. A new type can be a object type, a renaming of another type, an array type, or a multiset type. A object type can be defined as being either open or closed. Instances of a closed object type are not permitted to contain fields other than those specified in the create type statement. Instances of an open object type may carry additional fields, and open is the default for new types if neither option is specified.</p>
+<p>The following example creates a new object type called GleambookUser type. Since it is defined as (defaulting to) being an open type, instances will be permitted to contain more than what is specified in the type definition. The first four fields are essentially traditional typed name/value pairs (much like SQL fields). The friendIds field is a multiset of integers. The employment field is an array of instances of another named object type, EmploymentType.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE TYPE GleambookUserType AS {
+  id:         int,
+  alias:      string,
+  name:       string,
+  userSince: datetime,
+  friendIds: {{ int }},
+  employment: [ EmploymentType ]
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The next example creates a new object type, closed this time, called MyUserTupleType. Instances of this closed type will not be permitted to have extra fields, although the alias field is marked as optional and may thus be NULL or MISSING in legal instances of the type. Note that the type of the id field in the example is UUID. This field type can be used if you want to have this field be an autogenerated-PK field. (Refer to the Datasets section later for more details on such fields.)</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE TYPE MyUserTupleType AS CLOSED {
+  id:         uuid,
+  alias:      string?,
+  name:       string
+};
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Datasets" id="Datasets"> Datasets</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DatasetSpecification ::= ( &lt;INTERNAL&gt; )? &lt;DATASET&gt; QualifiedName &quot;(&quot; QualifiedName &quot;)&quot; IfNotExists
+                           PrimaryKey ( &lt;ON&gt; Identifier )? ( &lt;HINTS&gt; Properties )?
+                           ( &quot;USING&quot; &quot;COMPACTION&quot; &quot;POLICY&quot; CompactionPolicy ( Configuration )? )?
+                           ( &lt;WITH&gt; &lt;FILTER&gt; &lt;ON&gt; Identifier )?
+                          |
+                           &lt;EXTERNAL&gt; &lt;DATASET&gt; QualifiedName &quot;(&quot; QualifiedName &quot;)&quot; IfNotExists &lt;USING&gt; AdapterName
+                           Configuration ( &lt;HINTS&gt; Properties )?
+                           ( &lt;USING&gt; &lt;COMPACTION&gt; &lt;POLICY&gt; CompactionPolicy ( Configuration )? )?
+AdapterName          ::= Identifier
+Configuration        ::= &quot;(&quot; ( KeyValuePair ( &quot;,&quot; KeyValuePair )* )? &quot;)&quot;
+KeyValuePair         ::= &quot;(&quot; StringLiteral &quot;=&quot; StringLiteral &quot;)&quot;
+Properties           ::= ( &quot;(&quot; Property ( &quot;,&quot; Property )* &quot;)&quot; )?
+Property             ::= Identifier &quot;=&quot; ( StringLiteral | IntegerLiteral )
+FunctionSignature    ::= FunctionOrTypeName &quot;@&quot; IntegerLiteral
+PrimaryKey           ::= &lt;PRIMARY&gt; &lt;KEY&gt; NestedField ( &quot;,&quot; NestedField )* ( &lt;AUTOGENERATED&gt; )?
+CompactionPolicy     ::= Identifier
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The CREATE DATASET statement is used to create a new dataset. Datasets are named, multisets of object type instances; they are where data lives persistently and are the usual targets for SQL++ queries. Datasets are typed, and the system ensures that their contents conform to their type definitions. An Internal dataset (the default kind) is a dataset whose content lives within and is managed by the system. It is required to have a specified unique primary key field which uniquely identifies the contained objects. (The primary key is also used in secondary indexes to identify the indexed primary data objects.)</p>
+<p>Internal datasets contain several advanced options that can be specified when appropriate. One such option is that random primary key (UUID) values can be auto-generated by declaring the field to be UUID and putting &#x201c;AUTOGENERATED&#x201d; after the &#x201c;PRIMARY KEY&#x201d; identifier. In this case, unlike other non-optional fields, a value for the auto-generated PK field should not be provided at insertion time by the user since each object&#x2019;s primary key field value will be auto-generated by the system.</p>
+<p>Another advanced option, when creating an Internal dataset, is to specify the merge policy to control which of the underlying LSM storage components to be merged. (The system supports Log-Structured Merge tree based physical storage for Internal datasets.) Currently the system supports four different component merging policies that can be chosen per dataset: no-merge, constant, prefix, and correlated-prefix. The no-merge policy simply never merges disk components. The constant policy merges disk components when the number of components reaches a constant number k that can be configured by the user. The prefix policy relies on both component sizes and the number of components to decide which components to merge. It works by first trying to identify the smallest ordered (oldest to newest) sequence of components such that the sequence does not contain a single component that exceeds some threshold size M and that either the sum of the component&#x2019;s sizes exceeds M or the number of components in the sequence exceeds another threshold C. If such a sequence exists, the components in the sequence are merged together to form a single component. Finally, the correlated-prefix policy is similar to the prefix policy, but it delegates the decision of merging the disk components of all the indexes in a dataset to the primary index. When the correlated-prefix policy decides that the primary index needs to be merged (using the same decision criteria as for the prefix policy), then it will issue successive merge requests on behalf of all other indexes associated with the same dataset. The system&#x2019;s default policy is the prefix policy except when there is a filter on a dataset, where the preferred policy for filters is the correlated-prefix.</p>
+<p>Another advanced option shown in the syntax above, related to performance and mentioned above, is that a <b>filter</b> can optionally be created on a field to further optimize range queries with predicates on the filter&#x2019;s field. Filters allow some range queries to avoid searching all LSM components when the query conditions match the filter. (Refer to <a href="../filters.html">Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a> for more information about filters.)</p>
+<p>An External dataset, in contrast to an Internal dataset, has data stored outside of the system&#x2019;s control. Files living in HDFS or in the local filesystem(s) of a cluster&#x2019;s nodes are currently supported. External dataset support allows SQL++ queries to treat foreign data as though it were stored in the system, making it possible to query &#x201c;legacy&#x201d; file data (for example, Hive data) without having to physically import it. When defining an External dataset, an appropriate adapter type must be selected for the desired external data. (See the <a href="../externaldata.html">Guide to External Data</a> for more information on the available adapters.)</p>
+<p>The following example creates an Internal dataset for storing FacefookUserType objects. It specifies that their id field is their primary key.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INTERNAL DATASET GleambookUsers(GleambookUserType) PRIMARY KEY id;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The next example creates another Internal dataset (the default kind when no dataset kind is specified) for storing MyUserTupleType objects. It specifies that the id field should be used as the primary key for the dataset. It also specifies that the id field is an auto-generated field, meaning that a randomly generated UUID value should be assigned to each incoming object by the system. (A user should therefore not attempt to provide a value for this field.) Note that the id field&#x2019;s declared type must be UUID in this case.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE DATASET MyUsers(MyUserTupleType) PRIMARY KEY id AUTOGENERATED;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The next example creates an External dataset for querying LineItemType objects. The choice of the <tt>hdfs</tt> adapter means that this dataset&#x2019;s data actually resides in HDFS. The example CREATE statement also provides parameters used by the hdfs adapter: the URL and path needed to locate the data in HDFS and a description of the data format.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE EXTERNAL DATASET LineItem(LineItemType) USING hdfs (
+  (&quot;hdfs&quot;=&quot;hdfs://HOST:PORT&quot;),
+  (&quot;path&quot;=&quot;HDFS_PATH&quot;),
+  (&quot;input-format&quot;=&quot;text-input-format&quot;),
+  (&quot;format&quot;=&quot;delimited-text&quot;),
+  (&quot;delimiter&quot;=&quot;|&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Indices" id="Indices">Indices</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">IndexSpecification ::= &lt;INDEX&gt; Identifier IfNotExists &lt;ON&gt; QualifiedName
+                       &quot;(&quot; ( IndexField ) ( &quot;,&quot; IndexField )* &quot;)&quot; ( &quot;type&quot; IndexType &quot;?&quot;)?
+                       ( (&lt;NOT&gt;)? &lt;ENFORCED&gt; )?
+IndexType          ::= &lt;BTREE&gt; | &lt;RTREE&gt; | &lt;KEYWORD&gt; | &lt;NGRAM&gt; &quot;(&quot; IntegerLiteral &quot;)&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The CREATE INDEX statement creates a secondary index on one or more fields of a specified dataset. Supported index types include <tt>BTREE</tt> for totally ordered datatypes, <tt>RTREE</tt> for spatial data, and <tt>KEYWORD</tt> and <tt>NGRAM</tt> for textual (string) data. An index can be created on a nested field (or fields) by providing a valid path expression as an index field identifier.</p>
+<p>An indexed field is not required to be part of the datatype associated with a dataset if the dataset&#x2019;s datatype is declared as open <b>and</b> if the field&#x2019;s type is provided along with its name and if the <tt>ENFORCED</tt> keyword is specified at the end of the index definition. <tt>ENFORCING</tt> an open field introduces a check that makes sure that the actual type of the indexed field (if the optional field exists in the object) always matches this specified (open) field type.</p>
+<p>The following example creates a btree index called gbAuthorIdx on the authorId field of the GleambookMessages dataset. This index can be useful for accelerating exact-match queries, range search queries, and joins involving the author-id field.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX gbAuthorIdx ON GleambookMessages(authorId) TYPE BTREE;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example creates an open btree index called gbSendTimeIdx on the (non-predeclared) sendTime field of the GleambookMessages dataset having datetime type. This index can be useful for accelerating exact-match queries, range search queries, and joins involving the sendTime field. The index is enforced so that records that do not have the &#x201c;sendTime&#x201d; field or have a mismatched type on the field cannot be inserted into the dataset.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX gbSendTimeIdx ON GleambookMessages(sendTime: datetime?) TYPE BTREE ENFORCED;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example creates a btree index called crpUserScrNameIdx on screenName, a nested field residing within a object-valued user field in the ChirpMessages dataset. This index can be useful for accelerating exact-match queries, range search queries, and joins involving the nested screenName field. Such nested fields must be singular, i.e., one cannot index through (or on) an array-valued field.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX crpUserScrNameIdx ON ChirpMessages(user.screenName) TYPE BTREE;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example creates an rtree index called gbSenderLocIdx on the sender-location field of the GleambookMessages dataset. This index can be useful for accelerating queries that use the <a href="functions.html#spatial-intersect"><tt>spatial-intersect</tt> function</a> in a predicate involving the sender-location field.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX gbSenderLocIndex ON GleambookMessages(&quot;sender-location&quot;) TYPE RTREE;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example creates a 3-gram index called fbUserIdx on the name field of the GleambookUsers dataset. This index can be used to accelerate some similarity or substring maching queries on the name field. For details refer to the document on <a href="similarity.html#NGram_Index">similarity queries</a>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX fbUserIdx ON GleambookUsers(name) TYPE NGRAM(3);
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following example creates a keyword index called fbMessageIdx on the message field of the GleambookMessages dataset. This keyword index can be used to optimize queries with token-based similarity predicates on the message field. For details refer to the document on <a href="similarity.html#Keyword_Index">similarity queries</a>.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX fbMessageIdx ON GleambookMessages(message) TYPE KEYWORD;
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<p>The following example creates an open btree index called gbReadTimeIdx on the (non-predeclared) readTime field of the GleambookMessages dataset having datetime type. This index can be useful for accelerating exact-match queries, range search queries, and joins involving the <tt>readTime</tt> field. The index is not enforced so that records that do not have the <tt>readTime</tt> field or have a mismatched type on the field can still be inserted into the dataset.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h4><a name="Example"></a>Example</h4>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE INDEX gbReadTimeIdx ON GleambookMessages(readTime: datetime?);
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Functions" id="Functions"> Functions</a></h3>
+<p>The create function statement creates a <b>named</b> function that can then be used and reused in SQL++ queries. The body of a function can be any SQL++ expression involving the function&#x2019;s parameters.</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FunctionSpecification ::= &quot;FUNCTION&quot; FunctionOrTypeName IfNotExists ParameterList &quot;{&quot; Expression &quot;}&quot;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The following is an example of a CREATE FUNCTION statement which is similar to our earlier DECLARE FUNCTION example. It differs from that example in that it results in a function that is persistently registered by name in the specified dataverse (the current dataverse being used, if not otherwise specified).</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">CREATE FUNCTION friendInfo(userId) {
+    (SELECT u.id, u.name, len(u.friendIds) AS friendCount
+     FROM GleambookUsers u
+     WHERE u.id = userId)[0]
+ };
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Removal" id="Removal"> Removal</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DropStatement       ::= &quot;DROP&quot; ( &quot;DATAVERSE&quot; Identifier IfExists
+                               | &quot;TYPE&quot; FunctionOrTypeName IfExists
+                               | &quot;DATASET&quot; QualifiedName IfExists
+                               | &quot;INDEX&quot; DoubleQualifiedName IfExists
+                               | &quot;FUNCTION&quot; FunctionSignature IfExists )
+IfExists            ::= ( &quot;IF&quot; &quot;EXISTS&quot; )?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The DROP statement in SQL++ is the inverse of the CREATE statement. It can be used to drop dataverses, datatypes, datasets, indexes, and functions.</p>
+<p>The following examples illustrate some uses of the DROP statement.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DROP DATASET GleambookUsers IF EXISTS;
+
+DROP INDEX GleambookMessages.gbSenderLocIndex;
+
+DROP TYPE TinySocial2.GleambookUserType;
+
+DROP FUNCTION friendInfo@1;
+
+DROP DATAVERSE TinySocial;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>When an artifact is dropped, it will be droppped from the current dataverse if none is specified (see the DROP DATASET example above) or from the specified dataverse (see the DROP TYPE example above) if one is specified by fully qualifying the artifact name in the DROP statement. When specifying an index to drop, the index name must be qualified by the dataset that it indexes. When specifying a function to drop, since SQL++ allows functions to be overloaded by their number of arguments, the identifying name of the function to be dropped must explicitly include that information. (<tt>friendInfo@1</tt> above denotes the 1-argument function named friendInfo in the current dataverse.)</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="Load_Statement"></a><a name="Load_statement" id="Load_statement">Load Statement</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">LoadStatement  ::= &lt;LOAD&gt; &lt;DATASET&gt; QualifiedName &lt;USING&gt; AdapterName Configuration ( &lt;PRE-SORTED&gt; )?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The LOAD statement is used to initially populate a dataset via bulk loading of data from an external file. An appropriate adapter must be selected to handle the nature of the desired external data. The LOAD statement accepts the same adapters and the same parameters as discussed earlier for External datasets. (See the <a href="externaldata.html">guide to external data</a> for more information on the available adapters.) If a dataset has an auto-generated primary key field, the file to be imported should not include that field in it.</p>
+<p>The following example shows how to bulk load the GleambookUsers dataset from an external file containing data that has been prepared in ADM (Asterix Data Model) format.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source"> LOAD DATASET GleambookUsers USING localfs
+    ((&quot;path&quot;=&quot;127.0.0.1:///Users/bignosqlfan/tinysocialnew/gbu.adm&quot;),(&quot;format&quot;=&quot;adm&quot;));
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Modification_statements" id="Modification_statements">Modification statements</a></h2>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="INSERTs"></a><a name="Inserts" id="Inserts">INSERTs</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">InsertStatement ::= &lt;INSERT&gt; &lt;INTO&gt; QualifiedName Query
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The SQL++ INSERT statement is used to insert new data into a dataset. The data to be inserted comes from a SQL++ query expression. This expression can be as simple as a constant expression, or in general it can be any legal SQL++ query. If the target dataset has an auto-generated primary key field, the insert statement should not include a value for that field in it. (The system will automatically extend the provided object with this additional field and a corresponding value.) Insertion will fail if the dataset already has data with the primary key value(s) being inserted.</p>
+<p>Inserts are processed transactionally by the system. The transactional scope of each insert transaction is the insertion of a single object plus its affiliated secondary index entries (if any). If the query part of an insert returns a single object, then the INSERT statement will be a single, atomic transaction. If the query part returns multiple objects, each object being inserted will be treated as a separate tranaction. The following example illustrates a query-based insertion.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">INSERT INTO UsersCopy (SELECT VALUE user FROM GleambookUsers user)
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="UPSERTs"></a><a name="Upserts" id="Upserts">UPSERTs</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">UpsertStatement ::= &lt;UPSERT&gt; &lt;INTO&gt; QualifiedName Query
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The SQL++ UPSERT statement syntactically mirrors the INSERT statement discussed above. The difference lies in its semantics, which for UPSERT are &#x201c;add or replace&#x201d; instead of the INSERT &#x201c;add if not present, else error&#x201d; semantics. Whereas an INSERT can fail if another object already exists with the specified key, the analogous UPSERT will replace the previous object&#x2019;s value with that of the new object in such cases.</p>
+<p>The following example illustrates a query-based upsert operation.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">UPSERT INTO UsersCopy (SELECT VALUE user FROM GleambookUsers user)
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>*Editor&#x2019;s note: Upserts currently work in AQL but are not yet enabled (at the moment) in SQL++.</p></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3><a name="DELETEs"></a><a name="Deletes" id="Deletes">DELETEs</a></h3>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DeleteStatement ::= &lt;DELETE&gt; &lt;FROM&gt; QualifiedName ( ( &lt;AS&gt; )? Variable )? ( &lt;WHERE&gt; Expression )?
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The SQL++ DELETE statement is used to delete data from a target dataset. The data to be deleted is identified by a boolean expression involving the variable bound to the target dataset in the DELETE statement.</p>
+<p>Deletes are processed transactionally by the system. The transactional scope of each delete transaction is the deletion of a single object plus its affiliated secondary index entries (if any). If the boolean expression for a delete identifies a single object, then the DELETE statement itself will be a single, atomic transaction. If the expression identifies multiple objects, then each object deleted will be handled as a separate transaction.</p>
+<p>The following examples illustrate single-object deletions.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DELETE FROM GleambookUsers user WHERE user.id = 8;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">DELETE FROM GleambookUsers WHERE id = 5;
+</pre></div></div>
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<h1><a name="Reserved_keywords" id="Reserved_keywords">Appendix 1. Reserved keywords</a></h1><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<p>All reserved keywords are listed in the following table:</p>
+<table border="0" class="table table-striped">
+<thead>
+
+<tr class="a">
+<th>     </th>
+<th>     </th>
+<th>       </th>
+<th>    </th>
+<th>     </th>
+<th>    </th></tr>
+</thead><tbody>
+
+<tr class="b">
+<td> AND </td>
+<td> ANY </td>
+<td> APPLY </td>
+<td> AS </td>
+<td> ASC </td>
+<td> AT </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> AUTOGENERATED </td>
+<td> BETWEEN </td>
+<td> BTREE </td>
+<td> BY </td>
+<td> CASE </td>
+<td> CLOSED </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> CREATE </td>
+<td> COMPACTION </td>
+<td> COMPACT </td>
+<td> CONNECT </td>
+<td> CORRELATE </td>
+<td> DATASET </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> COLLECTION </td>
+<td> DATAVERSE </td>
+<td> DECLARE </td>
+<td> DEFINITION </td>
+<td> DECLARE </td>
+<td> DEFINITION </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> DELETE </td>
+<td> DESC </td>
+<td> DISCONNECT </td>
+<td> DISTINCT </td>
+<td> DROP </td>
+<td> ELEMENT </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> ELEMENT </td>
+<td> EXPLAIN </td>
+<td> ELSE </td>
+<td> ENFORCED </td>
+<td> END </td>
+<td> EVERY </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> EXCEPT </td>
+<td> EXIST </td>
+<td> EXTERNAL </td>
+<td> FEED </td>
+<td> FILTER </td>
+<td> FLATTEN </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> FOR </td>
+<td> FROM </td>
+<td> FULL </td>
+<td> FUNCTION </td>
+<td> GROUP </td>
+<td> HAVING </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> HINTS </td>
+<td> IF </td>
+<td> INTO </td>
+<td> IN </td>
+<td> INDEX </td>
+<td> INGESTION </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> INNER </td>
+<td> INSERT </td>
+<td> INTERNAL </td>
+<td> INTERSECT </td>
+<td> IS </td>
+<td> JOIN </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> KEYWORD </td>
+<td> LEFT </td>
+<td> LETTING </td>
+<td> LET </td>
+<td> LIKE </td>
+<td> LIMIT </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> LOAD </td>
+<td> NODEGROUP </td>
+<td> NGRAM </td>
+<td> NOT </td>
+<td> OFFSET </td>
+<td> ON </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> OPEN </td>
+<td> OR </td>
+<td> ORDER </td>
+<td> OUTER </td>
+<td> OUTPUT </td>
+<td> PATH </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> POLICY </td>
+<td> PRE-SORTED </td>
+<td> PRIMARY </td>
+<td> RAW </td>
+<td> REFRESH </td>
+<td> RETURN </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> RTREE </td>
+<td> RUN </td>
+<td> SATISFIES </td>
+<td> SECONDARY </td>
+<td> SELECT </td>
+<td> SET </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> SOME </td>
+<td> TEMPORARY </td>
+<td> THEN </td>
+<td> TYPE </td>
+<td> UNKNOWN </td>
+<td> UNNEST </td></tr>
+<tr class="b">
+<td> UPDATE </td>
+<td> USE </td>
+<td> USING </td>
+<td> VALUE </td>
+<td> WHEN </td>
+<td> WHERE </td></tr>
+<tr class="a">
+<td> WITH </td>
+<td> WRITE </td>
+<td>     </td>
+<td>     </td>
+<td>     </td>
+<td>     </td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Appendix_2._Performance_Tuning"></a><a name="Performance_tuning" id="Performance_tuning">Appendix 2. Performance Tuning</a></h2><!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+
+<p>The SET statement can be used to override some cluster-wide configuration parameters for a specific request:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET &lt;IDENTIFIER&gt; &lt;STRING_LITERAL&gt;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>As parameter identifiers are qualified names (containing a &#x2018;.&#x2019;) they have to be escaped using backticks (``). Note that changing query parameters will not affect query correctness but only impact performance characteristics, such as response time and throughput.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Parallelism_Parameter"></a><a name="Parallelism_parameter" id="Parallelism_parameter">Parallelism Parameter</a></h2>
+<p>The system can execute each request using multiple cores on multiple machines (a.k.a., partitioned parallelism) in a cluster. A user can manually specify the maximum execution parallelism for a request to scale it up and down using the following parameter:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><b>compiler.parallelism</b>: the maximum number of CPU cores can be used to process a query. There are three cases of the value <i>p</i> for compiler.parallelism:
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p><i>p</i> &lt; 0 or <i>p</i> &gt; the total number of cores in a cluster:  the system will use all available cores in the cluster;</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><i>p</i> = 0 (the default):  the system will use the storage parallelism (the number of partitions of stored datasets) as the maximum parallelism for query processing;</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>all other cases:  the system will use the user-specified number as the maximum number of CPU cores to use for executing the query.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET `compiler.parallelism` &quot;16&quot;;
+
+SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u JOIN GleambookMessages m ON m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div></div></div></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Memory_Parameters"></a><a name="Memory_parameters" id="Memory_parameters">Memory Parameters</a></h2>
+<p>In the system, each blocking runtime operator such as join, group-by and order-by works within a fixed memory budget, and can gracefully spill to disks if the memory budget is smaller than the amount of data they have to hold. A user can manually configure the memory budget of those operators within a query. The supported configurable memory parameters are:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+
+<p><b>compiler.groupmemory</b>: the memory budget that each parallel group-by operator instance can use; 32MB is the default budget.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><b>compiler.sortmemory</b>: the memory budget that each parallel sort operator instance can use; 32MB is the default budget.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><b>compiler.joinmemory</b>: the memory budget that each parallel hash join operator instance can use; 32MB is the default budget.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>For each memory budget value, you can use a 64-bit integer value with a 1024-based binary unit suffix (for example, B, KB, MB, GB). If there is no user-provided suffix, &#x201c;B&#x201d; is the default suffix. See the following examples.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET `compiler.groupmemory` &quot;64MB&quot;;
+
+SELECT msg.authorId, COUNT(*)
+FROM GleambookMessages msg
+GROUP BY msg.authorId;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET `compiler.sortmemory` &quot;67108864&quot;;
+
+SELECT VALUE user
+FROM GleambookUsers AS user
+ORDER BY ARRAY_LENGTH(user.friendIds) DESC;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET `compiler.joinmemory` &quot;132000KB&quot;;
+
+SELECT u.name AS uname, m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookUsers u JOIN GleambookMessages m ON m.authorId = u.id;
+</pre></div></div>
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Controlling_Index-Only-Plan_Parameter"></a><a name="Index_Only" id="Index_Only">Controlling Index-Only-Plan Parameter</a></h2>
+<p>By default, the system tries to build an index-only plan whenever utilizing a secondary index is possible. For example, if a SELECT or JOIN query can utilize an enforced B+Tree or R-Tree index on a field, the optimizer checks whether a secondary-index search alone can generate the result that the query asks for. It mainly checks two conditions: (1) predicates used in WHERE only uses the primary key field and/or secondary key field and (2) the result does not return any other fields. If these two conditions hold, it builds an index-only plan. Since an index-only plan only searches a secondary-index to answer a query, it is faster than a non-index-only plan that needs to search the primary index. However, this index-only plan can be turned off per query by setting the following parameter.</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li><b>noindexonly</b>: if this is set to true, the index-only-plan will not be applied; the default value is false.</li>
+</ul>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h5><a name="Example"></a>Example</h5>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SET noindexonly 'true';
+
+SELECT m.message AS message
+FROM GleambookMessages m where m.message = &quot; love product-b its shortcut-menu is awesome:)&quot;;
+</pre></div></div>
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+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Appendix_3._Variable_Bindings_and_Name_Resolution"></a><a name="Variable_bindings_and_name_resolution" id="Variable_bindings_and_name_resolution">Appendix 3. Variable Bindings and Name Resolution</a></h2><!--
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+
+<p>In this Appendix, we&#x2019;ll look at how variables are bound and how names are resolved. Names can appear in every clause of a query. Sometimes a name consists of just a single identifier, e.g., <tt>region</tt> or <tt>revenue</tt>. More often a name will consist of two identifiers separated by a dot, e.g., <tt>customer.address</tt>. Occasionally a name may have more than two identifiers, e.g., <tt>policy.owner.address.zipcode</tt>. <i>Resolving</i> a name means determining exactly what the (possibly multi-part) name refers to. It is necessary to have well-defined rules for how to resolve a name in cases of ambiguity. (In the absence of schemas, such cases arise more commonly, and also differently, than they do in SQL.)</p>
+<p>The basic job of each clause in a query block is to bind variables. Each clause sees the variables bound by previous clauses and may bind additional variables. Names are always resolved with respect to the variables that are bound (&#x201c;in scope&#x201d;) at the place where the name use in question occurs. It is possible that the name resolution process will fail, which may lead to an empty result or an error message.</p>
+<p>One important bit of background: When the system is reading a query and resolving its names, it has a list of all the available dataverses and datasets. As a result, it knows whether <tt>a.b</tt> is a valid name for dataset <tt>b</tt> in dataverse <tt>a</tt>. However, the system does not in general have knowledge of the schemas of the data inside the datasets; remember that this is a much more open world. As a result, in general the system cannot know whether any object in a particular dataset will have a field named <tt>c</tt>. These assumptions affect how errors are handled. If you try to access dataset <tt>a.b</tt> and no dataset by that name exists, you will get an error and your query will not run. However, if you try to access a field <tt>c</tt> in a collection of objects, your query will run and return <tt>missing</tt> for each object that doesn&#x2019;t have a field named <tt>c</tt> &#x2013; this is because it&#x2019;s possible that some object (someday) could have such a field.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Binding_Variables"></a><a name="Binding_variables" id="Binding_variables">Binding Variables</a></h2>
+<p>Variables can be bound in the following ways:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>WITH and LET clauses bind a variable to the result of an expression in a straightforward way</p>
+<p>Examples:</p>
+<p><tt>WITH cheap_parts AS (SELECT partno FROM parts WHERE price &lt; 100)</tt> binds the variable <tt>cheap_parts</tt> to the result of the subquery.</p>
+<p><tt>LET pay = salary + bonus</tt> binds the variable <tt>pay</tt> to the result of evaluating the expression <tt>salary + bonus</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>FROM, GROUP BY, and SELECT clauses have optional AS subclauses that contain an expression and a name (called an <i>iteration variable</i> in a FROM clause, or an alias in GROUP BY or SELECT.)</p>
+<p>Examples:</p>
+<p><tt>FROM customer AS c, order AS o</tt></p>
+<p><tt>GROUP BY salary + bonus AS total_pay</tt></p>
+<p><tt>SELECT MAX(price) AS highest_price</tt></p>
+<p>An AS subclause always binds the name (as a variable) to the result of the expression (or, in the case of a FROM clause, to the <i>individual members</i> of the collection identified by the expression.)</p>
+<p>It&#x2019;s always a good practice to use the keyword AS when defining an alias or iteration variable. However, as in SQL, the syntax allows the keyword AS to be omitted. For example, the FROM clause above could have been written like this:</p>
+<p><tt>FROM customer c, order o</tt></p>
+<p>Omitting the keyword AS does not affect the binding of variables. The FROM clause in this example binds variables c and o whether the keyword AS is used or not.</p>
+<p>In certain cases, a variable is automatically bound even if no alias or variable-name is specified. Whenever an expression could have been followed by an AS subclause, if the expression consists of a simple name or a path expression, that expression binds a variable whose name is the same as the simple name or the last step in the path expression. Here are some examples:</p>
+<p><tt>FROM customer, order</tt> binds iteration variables named <tt>customer</tt> and <tt>order</tt></p>
+<p><tt>GROUP BY address.zipcode</tt> binds a variable named <tt>zipcode</tt></p>
+<p><tt>SELECT item[0].price</tt> binds a variable named <tt>price</tt></p>
+<p>Note that a FROM clause iterates over a collection (usually a dataset), binding a variable to each member of the collection in turn. The name of the collection remains in scope, but it is not a variable. For example, consider this FROM clause used in a self-join:</p>
+<p><tt>FROM customer AS c1, customer AS c2</tt></p>
+<p>This FROM clause joins the customer dataset to itself, binding the iteration variables c1 and c2 to objects in the left-hand-side and right-hand-side of the join, respectively. After the FROM clause, c1 and c2 are in scope as variables, and customer remains accessible as a dataset name but not as a variable.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Special rules for GROUP BY:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>If a GROUP BY clause specifies an expression that has no explicit alias, it binds a pseudo-variable that is lexicographically identical to the expression itself. For example:</p>
+<p><tt>GROUP BY salary + bonus</tt> binds a pseudo-variable named <tt>salary + bonus</tt>.</p>
+<p>This rule allows subsequent clauses to refer to the grouping expression (salary + bonus) even though its constituent variables (salary and bonus) are no longer in scope. For example, the following query is valid:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FROM employee
+GROUP BY salary + bonus
+HAVING salary + bonus &gt; 1000
+SELECT salary + bonus, COUNT(*) AS how_many
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>While it might have been more elegant to explicitly require an alias in cases like this, the pseudo-variable rule is retained for SQL compatibility. Note that the expression <tt>salary + bonus</tt> is not <i>actually</i> evaluated in the HAVING and SELECT clauses (and could not be since <tt>salary</tt> and <tt>bonus</tt> are no longer individually in scope). Instead, the expression <tt>salary + bonus</tt> is treated as a reference to the pseudo-variable defined in the GROUP BY clause.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>A GROUP BY clause may be followed by a GROUP AS clause that binds a variable to the group. The purpose of this variable is to make the individual objects inside the group visible to subqueries that may need to iterate over them.</p>
+<p>The GROUP AS variable is bound to a multiset of objects. Each object represents one of the members of the group. Since the group may have been formed from a join, each of the member-objects contains a nested object for each variable bound by the nearest FROM clause (and its LET subclause, if any). These nested objects, in turn, contain the actual fields of the group-member. To understand this process, consider the following query fragment:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FROM parts AS p, suppliers AS s
+WHERE p.suppno = s.suppno
+GROUP BY p.color GROUP AS g
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Suppose that the objects in <tt>parts</tt> have fields <tt>partno</tt>, <tt>color</tt>, and <tt>suppno</tt>. Suppose that the objects in suppliers have fields <tt>suppno</tt> and <tt>location</tt>.</p>
+<p>Then, for each group formed by the GROUP BY, the variable g will be bound to a multiset with the following structure:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">[ { &quot;p&quot;: { &quot;partno&quot;: &quot;p1&quot;, &quot;color&quot;: &quot;red&quot;, &quot;suppno&quot;: &quot;s1&quot; },
+    &quot;s&quot;: { &quot;suppno&quot;: &quot;s1&quot;, &quot;location&quot;: &quot;Denver&quot; } },
+  { &quot;p&quot;: { &quot;partno&quot;: &quot;p2&quot;, &quot;color&quot;: &quot;red&quot;, &quot;suppno&quot;: &quot;s2&quot; },
+    &quot;s&quot;: { &quot;suppno&quot;: &quot;s2&quot;, &quot;location&quot;: &quot;Atlanta&quot; } },
+  ...
+]
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+</ol>
+</li>
+</ol></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Scoping" id="Scoping">Scoping</a></h2>
+<p>In general, the variables that are in scope at a particular position are those variables that were bound earlier in the current query block, in outer (enclosing) query blocks, or in a WITH clause at the beginning of the query. More specific rules follow.</p>
+<p>The clauses in a query block are conceptually processed in the following order:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>FROM (followed by LET subclause, if any)</li>
+<li>WHERE</li>
+<li>GROUP BY (followed by LET subclause, if any)</li>
+<li>HAVING</li>
+<li>SELECT or SELECT VALUE</li>
+<li>ORDER BY</li>
+<li>OFFSET</li>
+<li>LIMIT</li>
+</ul>
+<p>During processing of each clause, the variables that are in scope are those variables that are bound in the following places:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>In earlier clauses of the same query block (as defined by the ordering given above).</p>
+<p>Example: <tt>FROM orders AS o SELECT o.date</tt> The variable <tt>o</tt> in the SELECT clause is bound, in turn, to each object in the dataset <tt>orders</tt>.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>In outer query blocks in which the current query block is nested. In case of duplication, the innermost binding wins.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>In the WITH clause (if any) at the beginning of the query.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+<p>However, in a query block where a GROUP BY clause is present:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>In clauses processed before GROUP BY, scoping rules are the same as though no GROUP BY were present.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>In clauses processed after GROUP BY, the variables bound in the nearest FROM-clause (and its LET subclause, if any) are removed from scope and replaced by the variables bound in the GROUP BY clause (and its LET subclause, if any). However, this replacement does not apply inside the arguments of the five SQL special aggregating functions (MIN, MAX, AVG, SUM, and COUNT). These functions still need to see the individual data items over which they are computing an aggregation. For example, after <tt>FROM employee AS e GROUP BY deptno</tt>, it would not be valid to reference <tt>e.salary</tt>, but <tt>AVG(e.salary)</tt> would be valid.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Special case: In an expression inside a FROM clause, a variable is in scope if it was bound in an earlier expression in the same FROM clause. Example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FROM orders AS o, o.items AS i
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The reason for this special case is to support iteration over nested collections.</p>
+<p>Note that, since the SELECT clause comes <i>after</i> the WHERE and GROUP BY clauses in conceptual processing order, any variables defined in SELECT are not visible in WHERE or GROUP BY. Therefore the following query will not return what might be the expected result (since in the WHERE clause, <tt>pay</tt> will be interpreted as a field in the <tt>emp</tt> object rather than as the computed value <tt>salary + bonus</tt>):</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">SELECT name, salary + bonus AS pay
+FROM emp
+WHERE pay &gt; 1000
+ORDER BY pay
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>The likely intent of the query above can be accomplished as follows:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">FROM emp AS e
+LET pay = e.salary + e.bonus
+WHERE pay &gt; 1000
+SELECT e.name, pay
+ORDER BY pay
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Resolving_Names"></a><a name="Resolving_names" id="Resolving_names">Resolving Names</a></h2>
+<p>The process of name resolution begins with the leftmost identifier in the name. The rules for resolving the leftmost identifier are:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p><i>In a FROM clause</i>: Names in a FROM clause identify the collections over which the query block will iterate. These collections may be stored datasets or may be the results of nested query blocks. A stored dataset may be in a named dataverse or in the default dataverse. Thus, if the two-part name <tt>a.b</tt> is in a FROM clause, a might represent a dataverse and <tt>b</tt> might represent a dataset in that dataverse. Another example of a two-part name in a FROM clause is <tt>FROM orders AS o, o.items AS i</tt>. In <tt>o.items</tt>, <tt>o</tt> represents an order object bound earlier in the FROM clause, and items represents the items object inside that order.</p>
+<p>The rules for resolving the leftmost identifier in a FROM clause (including a JOIN subclause), or in the expression following IN in a quantified predicate, are as follows:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>If the identifier matches a variable-name that is in scope, it resolves to the binding of that variable. (Note that in the case of a subquery, an in-scope variable might have been bound in an outer query block; this is called a correlated subquery.)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Otherwise, if the identifier is the first part of a two-part name like <tt>a.b</tt>, the name is treated as dataverse.dataset. If the identifier stands alone as a one-part name, it is treated as the name of a dataset in the default dataverse. An error will result if the designated dataverse or dataset does not exist.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p><i>Elsewhere in a query block</i>: In clauses other than FROM, a name typically identifies a field of some object. For example, if the expression <tt>a.b</tt> is in a SELECT or WHERE clause, it&#x2019;s likely that <tt>a</tt> represents an object and <tt>b</tt> represents a field in that object.</p>
+<p>The rules for resolving the leftmost identifier in clauses other than the ones listed in Rule 1 are:</p>
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+
+<li>
+
+<p>If the identifier matches a variable-name that is in scope, it resolves to the binding of that variable. (In the case of a correlated subquery, the in-scope variable might have been bound in an outer query block.)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>(The &#x201c;Single Variable Rule&#x201d;): Otherwise, if the FROM clause (or a LET clause if there is no FROM clause) in the current query block binds exactly one variable, the identifier is treated as a field access on the object bound to that variable. For example, in the query <tt>FROM customer SELECT address</tt>, the identifier address is treated as a field in the object bound to the variable customer. At runtime, if the object bound to customer has no <tt>address</tt> field, the <tt>address</tt> expression will return <tt>missing</tt>. If the FROM clause (and its LET subclause, if any) in the current query block binds multiple variables, name resolution fails with an &#x201c;ambiguous name&#x201d; error. Note that the Single Variable Rule searches for bound variables only in the current query block, not in outer (containing) blocks. The purpose of this rule is to permit the compiler to resolve field-references unambiguously without relying on any schema information.</p>
+<p>Exception: In a query that has a GROUP BY clause, the Single Variable Rule does not apply in any clauses that occur after the GROUP BY because, in these clauses, the variables bound by the FROM clause are no longer in scope. In clauses after GROUP BY, only Rule 2.1 applies.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>In an ORDER BY clause following a UNION ALL expression:</p>
+<p>The leftmost identifier is treated as a field-access on the objects that are generated by the UNION ALL. For example:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">query-block-1
+UNION ALL
+query-block-2
+ORDER BY salary
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>In the result of this query, objects that have a foo field will be ordered by the value of this field; objects that have no foo field will appear at at the beginning of the query result (in ascending order) or at the end (in descending order.)</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Once the leftmost identifier has been resolved, the following dots and identifiers in the name (if any) are treated as a path expression that navigates to a field nested inside that object. The name resolves to the field at the end of the path. If this field does not exist, the value <tt>missing</tt> is returned.</p>
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+    <li><a href="../feeds.html" title="Data Ingestion with Feeds"><span class="none"></span>Data Ingestion with Feeds</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="../sqlpp/filters.html" title="Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration"><span class="none"></span>Filter-Based LSM Index Acceleration</a></li>
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-<h1>Support for User Defined Functions in AsterixDB</h1>
+<h1>User-defined Functions</h1>
 <div class="section">
 <h2><a name="Table_of_Contents"></a><a name="atoc" id="#toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
 <ul>
 
-<li><a href="#PreprocessingCollectedData">Using UDF to preprocess feed-collected data</a></li>
-<li><a href="#WritingAnExternalUDF">Writing an External UDF</a></li>
-<li><a href="#CreatingAnAsterixDBLibrary">Creating an AsterixDB Library</a></li>
-<li><a href="#installingUDF">Installing an AsterixDB Library</a></li>
-</ul>
-<p>In this document, we describe the support for implementing, using, and installing user-defined functions (UDF) in AsterixDB. We will explain how we can use UDFs to preprocess, e.g., data collected using feeds (see the <a href="feeds/tutorial.html">feeds tutorial</a>).</p>
+<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+<li><a href="#installingUDF">Installing an UDF Library</a></li>
+<li><a href="#UDFOnFeeds">Attaching an UDF on Data Feeds</a></li>
+<li><a href="#udfConfiguration">A quick look of the UDF configuration</a></li>
+<li><a href="#uninstall">Unstalling an UDF Library</a><!--
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 <div class="section">
-<h3><a name="Installing_an_AsterixDB_Library"></a><a name="installingUDF">Installing an AsterixDB Library</a></h3>
-<p>We assume you have followed the <a href="../install.html">installation instructions</a> to set up a running AsterixDB instance. Let us refer your AsterixDB instance by the name &#x201c;my_asterix&#x201d;.</p>
+<h2><a name="Introduction"></a><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
+<p>Apache AsterixDB supports two languages for writing user-defined functions (UDFs): SQL++ and Java. A user can encapsulate data processing logic into a UDF and invoke it later repeatedly. For SQL++ functions, a user can refer to <a href="sqlpp/manual.html#Functions">SQL++ Functions</a> for their usages. In this document, we focus on how to install/invoke/uninstall a Java function library using the Ansible script that we provide.</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="Installing_an_UDF_Library"></a><a name="installingUDF">Installing an UDF Library</a></h2>
+<p>UDFs have to be installed offline. This section describes the process assuming that you have followed the preceding <a href="ansible.html">ansible installation instructions</a> to deploy an AsterixDB instance on your local machine or cluster. Here are the instructions to install an UDF library:</p>
 <ul>
 
 <li>
 
-<p>Step 1: Stop the AsterixDB instance if it is in the ACTIVE state.</p>
+<p>Step 1: Stop the AsterixDB instance if it is ACTIVE.</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">$ managix stop -n my_asterix
+<pre class="source">$ bin/stop.sh
 </pre></div></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 
-<p>Step 2: Install the library using Managix install command. Just to illustrate, we use the help command to look up the syntax</p>
+<p>Step 2: Deploy the UDF package.</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">$ managix help  -cmd install
-Installs a library to an asterix instance.
-Options
-n  Name of Asterix Instance
-d  Name of the dataverse under which the library will be installed
-l  Name of the library
-p  Path to library zip bundle
+<pre class="source">$ bin/udf.sh -m i -d DATAVERSE_NAME -l LIBRARY_NAME -p UDF_PACKAGE_PATH
+</pre></div></div>
+</li>
+<li>
+
+<p>Step 3: Start AsterixDB</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">$ bin/start.sh
 </pre></div></div>
 </li>
 </ul>
-<p>Above is a sample output and explains the usage and the required parameters. Each library has a name and is installed under a dataverse. Recall that we had created a dataverse by the name - &#x201c;feeds&#x201d; prior to  creating our datatypes and dataset. We shall name our library - &#x201c;testlib&#x201d;.</p>
-<p>We assume you have a library zip bundle that needs to be installed. To install the library, use the Managix install command. An example is shown below.</p>
+<p>After AsterixDB starts, you can use the following query to check whether your UDFs have been sucessfully registered with the system.</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    $ managix install -n my_asterix -d feeds -l testlib -p extlibs/asterix-external-data-0.8.7-binary-assembly.zip
+<pre class="source">    SELECT * FROM Metadata.`Function`;
 </pre></div></div>
 
-<p>You should see the following message:</p>
+<p>In the AsterixDB source release, we provide several sample UDFs that you can try out. You need to build the AsterixDB source to get the compiled UDF package. It can be found under the <tt>asterixdb-external</tt> sub-project. Assuming that these UDFs have been installed into the <tt>udfs</tt> dataverse and <tt>testlib</tt> library, here is an example that uses the sample UDF <tt>mysum</tt> to compute the sum of two input integers.</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    INFO: Installed library testlib
+<pre class="source">    use udfs;
+
+    testlib#mysum(3,4);
 </pre></div></div>
-
-<p>We shall next start our AsterixDB instance using the start command as shown below.</p>
-
-<div>
-<div>
-<pre class="source">    $ managix start -n my_asterix
-</pre></div></div>
-
-<p>You may now use the AsterixDB library in AQL statements and queries. To look at the installed artifacts, you may execute the following query at the AsterixDB web-console.</p>
-
-<div>
-<div>
-<pre class="source">    for $x in dataset Metadata.Function
-    return $x
-
-    for $x in dataset Metadata.Library
-    return $x
-</pre></div></div>
-
-<p>Our library is now installed and is ready to be used.</p></div></div>
+</div>
 <div class="section">
-<h2><a name="Preprocessing_Collected_Data"></a><a name="PreprocessingCollectedData" id="PreprocessingCollectedData">Preprocessing Collected Data</a></h2>
-<p>In the following we assume that you already created the <tt>TwitterFeed</tt> and its corresponding data types and dataset following the instruction explained in the <a href="feeds/tutorial.html">feeds tutorial</a>.</p>
-<p>A feed definition may optionally include the specification of a user-defined function that is to be applied to each feed object prior to persistence. Examples of pre-processing might include adding attributes, filtering out objects, sampling, sentiment analysis, feature extraction, etc. We can express a UDF, which can be defined in AQL or in a programming language such as Java, to perform such pre-processing. An AQL UDF is a good fit when pre-processing a object requires the result of a query (join or aggregate) over data contained in AsterixDB datasets. More sophisticated processing such as sentiment analysis of text is better handled by providing a Java UDF. A Java UDF has an initialization phase that allows the UDF to access any resources it may need to initialize itself prior to being used in a data flow. It is assumed by the AsterixDB compiler to be stateless and thus usable as an embarrassingly parallel black box. In contrast, the AsterixDB compiler can reason about an AQL UDF and involve the use of indexes during its invocation.</p>
-<p>We consider an example transformation of a raw tweet into its lightweight version called <tt>ProcessedTweet</tt>, which is defined next.</p>
+<h2><a name="Attaching_a_UDF_on_Data_Feeds"></a><a name="UDFOnFeeds" id="UDFOnFeeds">Attaching a UDF on Data Feeds</a></h2>
+<p>In <a href="feeds.html">Data Ingestion using feeds</a>, we introduced an efficient way for users to get data into AsterixDB. In some use cases, users may want to pre-process the incoming data before storing it into the dataset. To meet this need, AsterixDB allows the user to attach a UDF onto the ingestion pipeline. Following the example in <a href="feeds.html">Data Ingestion</a>, here we show an example of how to attach a UDF that extracts the user names mentioned from the incoming Tweet text, storing the processed Tweets into a dataset.</p>
+<p>We start by creating the datatype and dataset that will be used for the feed and UDF. One thing to keep in mind is that data flows from the feed to the UDF and then to the dataset. This means that the feed&#x2019;s datatype should be the same as the input type of the UDF, and the output datatype of the UDF should be the same as the dataset&#x2019;s datatype. Thus, users should make sure that their datatypes are consistent in the UDF configuration. Users can also take advantage of open datatypes in AsterixDB by creating a minimum description of the data for simplicity. Here we use open datatypes:</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    use dataverse feeds;
+<pre class="source">    use udfs;
 
-    create type ProcessedTweet if not exists as open {
-        id: string,
-        user_name:string,
-        location:point,
-        created_at:string,
-        message_text:string,
-        country: string,
-        topics: {{string}}
+    create type TweetType if not exists as open {
+        id: int64
     };
 
-    create dataset ProcessedTweets(ProcessedTweet)
-    primary key id;
+    create dataset ProcessedTweets(TweetType) primary key id;
 </pre></div></div>
 
-<p>The processing required in transforming a collected tweet to its lighter version of type <tt>ProcessedTweet</tt> involves extracting the topics or hash-tags (if any) in a tweet and collecting them in the referred &#x201c;topics&#x201d; attribute for the tweet. Additionally, the latitude and longitude values (doubles) are combined into the spatial point type. Note that spatial data types are considered as first-class citizens that come with the support for creating indexes. Next we show a revised version of our example TwitterFeed that involves the use of a UDF. We assume that the UDF that contains the transformation logic into a &#x201c;ProcessedTweet&#x201d; is available as a Java UDF inside an AsterixDB library named &#x2018;testlib&#x2019;. We defer the writing of a Java UDF and its installation as part of an AsterixDB library to a later section of this document.</p>
+<p>As the <tt>TweetType</tt> is an open datatype, processed Tweets can be stored into the dataset after they are annotated with an extra attribute. Given the datatype and dataset above, we can create a Twitter Feed with the same datatype. Please refer to section <a href="feeds.html">Data Ingestion</a> if you have any trouble in creating feeds.</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    use dataverse feeds;
+<pre class="source">    use udfs;
 
-    create feed ProcessedTwitterFeed if not exists
-    using &quot;push_twitter&quot;
-    ((&quot;type-name&quot;=&quot;Tweet&quot;),
-    (&quot;consumer.key&quot;=&quot;************&quot;),
-    (&quot;consumer.secret&quot;=&quot;**************&quot;),
-    (&quot;access.token&quot;=&quot;**********&quot;),
-    (&quot;access.token.secret&quot;=&quot;*************&quot;))
-
-    apply function testlib#addHashTagsInPlace;
+    create feed TwitterFeed with {
+      &quot;adapter-name&quot;: &quot;push_twitter&quot;,
+      &quot;type-name&quot;: &quot;TweetType&quot;,
+      &quot;format&quot;: &quot;twitter-status&quot;,
+      &quot;consumer.key&quot;: &quot;************&quot;,
+      &quot;consumer.secret&quot;: &quot;************&quot;,
+      &quot;access.token&quot;: &quot;**********&quot;,
+      &quot;access.token.secret&quot;: &quot;*************&quot;
+    };
 </pre></div></div>
 
-<p>Note that a feed adaptor and a UDF act as pluggable components. These contribute towards providing a generic &#x201c;plug-and-play&#x201d; model where custom implementations can be provided to cater to specific requirements.</p>
+<p>After creating the feed, we attach the UDF onto the feed pipeline and start the feed with following statements:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    use udfs;
+
+    connect feed TwitterFeed to dataset ProcessedTweets apply function udfs#addMentionedUsers;
+
+    start feed TwitterFeed;
+</pre></div></div>
+
+<p>You can check the annotated Tweets by querying the <tt>ProcessedTweets</tt> dataset:</p>
+
+<div>
+<div>
+<pre class="source">    SELECT * FROM ProcessedTweets LIMIT 10;
+</pre></div></div>
+</div>
 <div class="section">
-<div class="section">
-<h4><a name="Building_a_Cascade_Network_of_Feeds"></a>Building a Cascade Network of Feeds</h4>
-<p>Multiple high-level applications may wish to consume the data ingested from a data feed. Each such application might perceive the feed in a different way and require the arriving data to be processed and/or persisted differently. Building a separate flow of data from the external source for each application is wasteful of resources as the pre-processing or transformations required by each application might overlap and could be done together in an incremental fashion to avoid redundancy. A single flow of data from the external source could provide data for multiple applications. To achieve this, we introduce the notion of primary and secondary feeds in AsterixDB.</p>
-<p>A feed in AsterixDB is considered to be a primary feed if it gets its data from an external data source. The objects contained in a feed (subsequent to any pre-processing) are directed to a designated AsterixDB dataset. Alternatively or additionally, these objects can be used to derive other feeds known as secondary feeds. A secondary feed is similar to its parent feed in every other aspect; it can have an associated UDF to allow for any subsequent processing, can be persisted into a dataset, and/or can be made to derive other secondary feeds to form a cascade network. A primary feed and a dependent secondary feed form a hierarchy. As an example, we next show an example AQL statement that redefines the previous feed &#x201c;ProcessedTwitterFeed&#x201d; in terms of their respective parent feed (TwitterFeed).</p>
+<h2><a name="A_quick_look_of_the_UDF_configuration"></a><a name="udfConfiguration">A quick look of the UDF configuration</a></h2>
+<p>AsterixDB uses an XML configuration file to describe the UDFs. A user can use it to define and reuse their compiled UDFs for different purposes. Here is a snippet of the configuration used in our <a href="#UDFOnFeeds">previous example</a>:</p>
 
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 <div>
-<pre class="source">    use dataverse feeds;
-
-    drop feed ProcessedTwitterFeed if exists;
-
-    create secondary feed ProcessedTwitterFeed from feed TwitterFeed
-    apply function testlib#addHashTags;
-
-    connect feed ProcessedTwitterFeed to dataset ProcessedTweets;
+<pre class="source">    &lt;libraryFunction&gt;
+      &lt;name&gt;addMentionedUsers&lt;/name&gt;
+      &lt;function_type&gt;SCALAR&lt;/function_type&gt;
+      &lt;argument_type&gt;TweetType&lt;/argument_type&gt;
+      &lt;return_type&gt;TweetType&lt;/return_type&gt;
+      &lt;definition&gt;org.apache.asterix.external.library.AddMentionedUsersFactory&lt;/definition&gt;
+      &lt;parameters&gt;text&lt;/parameters&gt;
+    &lt;/libraryFunction&gt;
 </pre></div></div>
 
-<p>The <tt>addHashTags</tt> function is already provided in the example UDF.To see what objects are being inserted into the dataset, we can perform a simple dataset scan after allowing a few moments for the feed to start ingesting data:</p>
+<p>Here are the explanations of the fields in the configuration file:</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    use dataverse feeds;
-
-    for $i in dataset ProcessedTweets limit 10 return $i;
+<pre class="source">   name: The proper name that is used for invoke the function.
+   function_type: The type of the function.
+   argument_type: The datatype of the arguments passed in. If there is more than one parameter, separate them with comma(s), e.g., `AINT32,AINT32`.
+   return_type: The datatype of the returning value.
+   definition: A reference to the function factory.
+   parameters: The parameters passed into the function.
 </pre></div></div>
 
-<p>For an example of how to write a Java UDF from scratch, the source for the example UDF that has been used in this tutorial is available [here] (<a class="externalLink" href="https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/tree/master/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/library">https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/tree/master/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/library</a>)</p></div></div></div>
+<p>In our feeds example, we passed in <tt>&quot;text&quot;</tt> as a parameter to the function so it knows which field to look at to get the Tweet text. If the Twitter API were to change its field names in the future, we can accommodate that change by simply modifying the configuration file instead of recompiling the whole UDF package. This feature can be further utilized in use cases where a user has a Machine Learning algorithm with different trained model files. If you are interested, You can find more examples <a class="externalLink" href="https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/tree/master/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/library">here</a></p></div>
 <div class="section">
-<h2><a name="Unstalling_an_AsterixDB_Library"></a><a name="installingUDF">Unstalling an AsterixDB Library</a></h2>
-<p>To uninstall a library, use the Managix uninstall command as follows:</p>
+<h2><a name="Unstalling_an_UDF_Library"></a><a name="uninstall">Unstalling an UDF Library</a></h2>
+<p>If you want to uninstall the UDF library, put AsterixDB into <tt>INACTVIVE</tt> mode and run following command:</p>
 
 <div>
 <div>
-<pre class="source">    $ managix stop -n my_asterix
-
-    $ managix uninstall -n my_asterix -d feeds -l testlib
+<pre class="source">    $ bin/udf.sh -m u -d DATAVERSE_NAME -l LIBRARY_NAME
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