C Analytics Functions by Category

The table below links to pages describing the functions in detail. The examples in these pages use the following schema definition for a database of stock quotes:

 
    #define uint4 unsigned<4>
    #define MAX_SYMBOL_LEN 21
     
    declare database stockdb;
 
    class Quote 
    {
        char<MAX_SYMBOL_LEN> symbol;
        sequence<date asc> day;
        sequence<float> low;
        sequence<float> high;
        sequence<float> open;
        sequence<float> close;
        sequence<uint4> volume;
        sequence<char<15>> day_str;
 
        unique tree<symbol> by_sym;
    };
     

Note that the primary key for this table is the unique index by_sym on field symbol and all of the other fields except day_str are of type sequence where the field day is an ordered sequence. The day_str field is added to provide a convenient character array representation of the date type stored in field day. Typically analytics operations are performed on one or more sequence fields extracted from a Quote object which is effectively a "row" from a "result set" cursor. For example, the following code snippet iterates through the entire database printing out the values of the Quote character field symbol and sequence fields day and high:

 
    mco_trans_start(db, MCO_READ_ONLY, MCO_TRANS_FOREGROUND, &trans);
 
    /* Iterate through all objects */
    Quote_by_sym_index_cursor(trans, &quote_cursor);
    for (rc = mco_cursor_first(trans, &quote_cursor); 
        rc != MCO_S_CURSOR_END; 
        rc = mco_cursor_next(trans, &quote_cursor)) 
    {
 
        /* Get current object */
        Quote_from_cursor(trans, &quote_cursor, &quote);
        /* Get symbol name */
        Quote_symbol_get(&quote, symbol, sizeof symbol);
        /* Initialize iterators */
        Quote_high_iterator(&quote, &high_iterator);
        Quote_day_iterator(&quote, &day_iterator);
        Quote_day_str_iterator(&quote, &day_str_iterator);
         
        while ((rc = mco_seq_next_uint4(&day_iterator, &day)) != MCO_S_CURSOR_END) 
        {
            mco_seq_next_float(&high_iterator, &high);
            mco_seq_next_char(&day_str_iterator, buff);
            printf("%s[(%s)]: %f\n", symbol, buff, high);
        }
    }
    mco_trans_commit(trans);
     

Please use the links below to view descriptions and examples of these functions by category:

Unary_Functions	Functions that take a single input sequence and produce a result sequence of values such as: abs, neg, match
Binary_Functions	Functions that take two input sequences and produce a result sequence of values such as: add, sub, mul, div, mod, max, min
Comparison_Functions	Functions that take two input sequences and produce a result sequence of boolean values for the comparison operators: ==, !=, >, >=, <, <=
Logical_Functions	Functions that take two input sequences and produce a result sequence of boolean values from the following logical operators: not, and, or, xor
Conversion_Functions	Convert values of the input sequence to the desired type, or print data into the result sequence
Collapse_Functions	Functions that collapse two sequences to scalar values such as: weighted sum, weighted average, covariance, correlation
Conditional_Functions	Functions that perform operations on one or two input sequences based on a condition such as: if, iif, filter, filter_pos
Manipulator_Functions	Functions that perform various manipulations of input sequences
Iterator_Functions	Functions that extract values from and reset sequence iterators such as: next, reset
Generated_Functions	Generated functions that perform operations on the database object's sequence fields such as: first, last, append, insert, delete, search, join, count, map, subseq, iterator, from_cursor, project, store
Top_Functions	Functions that return the top n elements (or their positions) of the input sequence: top_max, top_min, top_pos_max, top_pos_min
RLE_Functions	Functions that perform Run Length Encryption (RLE) operations: count, decode, is_rle
Grand Aggregate	Functions that take a single input sequence iterator argument and produce a scalar value in the result sequence
Group_Agg	Functions that split the input sequence into groups based on the values of a group_by argument
Grid_Agg	Functions that split the input sequence into intervals specified by the interval argument which determines the maximum number of elements in the group
Window_Agg	Like the “Grid” functions illustrated above, however the interval argument indicates the next N elements from the input sequence
Hash_Agg	Functions that group the resulting sequence by grouping sequence that is not ordered
Cumulative_Agg	Functions that accumulate the average, sum, product, etc. of all preceding elements in the result sequence
Miscellaneous	Functions that provide sort, rank and histogram functionalities