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Read Primitives — Distinct Aggregation

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Distinct count of high cardinality key on a large table

Representative SQL

Rendered for DataFusion with default parameters.

SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT o_custkey) AS unique_customers
FROM orders
WHERE
o_orderdate >= CAST('1995-01-01' AS DATE)

Representative DataFrame

Expression family (Polars, PySpark, DataFusion), default parameters.

def aggregation_distinct_expression_impl(ctx: DataFrameContext) -> Any:
orders = ctx.get_table("orders")
col = ctx.col
lit = ctx.lit
return orders.filter(col("o_orderdate") >= lit(date(1995, 1, 1))).select(
col("o_custkey").n_unique().alias("unique_customers")
)

Get the exact query for your run

The blocks above are representative. To get the precise statement a specific platform runs at a specific scale, substitute your own values:

from benchbox import ReadPrimitives
bench = ReadPrimitives(scale_factor=0.01) # your scale factor
queries = bench.get_queries(dialect="datafusion") # your platform's dialect; drop dialect= for native SQL
print(queries['aggregation_distinct'])

For the DataFrame form:

from benchbox.core.query_catalog import get_dataframe_render
print(get_dataframe_render('read_primitives', 'aggregation_distinct', family="expression").source) # or family="pandas"

Source

Query text: benchbox/core/read_primitives/queries.py