A new window Clause for SQL++

Abstract

Window queries are important analytical tools for ordered data and have been researched both in streaming and stored data environments. By incorporating ideas for window queries from existing streaming and stored data systems, we propose a new window syntax that makes a wide range of window queries easier to write and optimize. We have implemented this new window syntax in SQL++, an SQL extension that supports querying semistructured data, on top of AsterixDB, a Big Data Management System, thus allowing us to process window queries over large datasets in a parallel and efficient manner.