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But these features are not very complete compared with other popular engines such as spark, presto. And these improved features are very useful for users or developers.


show

Support or Not

If it‘s a List function, does it support filtering

Support filter or Not

show tables

Yes

Yes

show columns

Yes

Yes

show catalogs

Yes

No

show databases

Yes

No

show functions

Yes

No

show views

Yes

No

show modules

Yes

No

show jars

Yes

No

show jobs

Yes

No

show create table

No

Not Applicable

show create view

No

Not Applicable

show create function

No

Not Applicable


We can see current flink many sql statements only support showing with full datas, without 'FROM/IN' or 'LIKE' filter clause. And current flink lack some abilities such as `show create table`, `show create view`, `show create function`.


describe

Support or Not

describe database

No

describe table

Yes

describe function

No

describe query

No

current flink only supports describing tables.

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