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And these improved features are very useful for users and developers.
Comparison with other popular engines
Because each engine has its own personalized auxiliary sql statements features, here are some common operations listed as much as possible, and compare what other unrealized abilities of flink.
show catalogs
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax |
Flink | SHOW CATALOGS |
Spark | No |
Hive | No |
Presto | SHOW CATALOGS [ LIKE pattern ] |
MySQL | No |
SnowFlake | No |
show databases
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax |
Flink | SHOW DATABASES |
Spark | SHOW { DATABASES | SCHEMAS } [ LIKE regex_pattern ] |
Hive | SHOW (DATABASES|SCHEMAS) [LIKE 'identifier_with_wildcards'] |
Presto | SHOW SCHEMAS [ FROM catalog ] [ LIKE pattern ] |
MySQL | SHOW {DATABASES | SCHEMAS} [LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr] |
SnowFlake | SHOW [ TERSE ] DATABASES [ HISTORY ] [ LIKE '<pattern>' ] [ STARTS WITH '<name_string>' ] [ LIMIT <rows> [ FROM '<name_string>' ] ] |
show functions
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax |
Flink | SHOW [USER] FUNCTIONS |
Spark | SHOW [ function_kind ] FUNCTIONS [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] |
Hive | SHOW FUNCTIONS [LIKE "<pattern>"] |
Presto | SHOW FUNCTIONS [ LIKE pattern [ ESCAPE 'escape_character' ] ] |
MySQL | SELECT ROUTINE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE = 'FUNCTION' ORDER BY ROUTINE_NAME; |
SnowFlake | SHOW FUNCTIONS [ LIKE '<pattern>' ] [ IN { ACCOUNT | DATABASE | DATABASE <database_name> | SCHEMA | SCHEMA <schema_name> | <schema_name> } ] |
show views
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax |
Flink | SHOW VIEWS |
Spark | SHOW VIEWS [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] |
Hive | SHOW VIEWS [IN/FROM database_name] [LIKE 'pattern_with_wildcards'] |
Presto | No |
MySQL | SHOW FULL TABLES [FROM db_name] [LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr] (Alternative syntax) |
SnowFlake | SHOW [ TERSE ] VIEWS [ LIKE '<pattern>' ] [ IN { ACCOUNT | DATABASE [ <db_name> ] | [ SCHEMA ] [ <schema_name> ] } ] [ STARTS WITH '<name_string>' ] [ LIMIT <rows> [ FROM '<name_string>' ] ] |
show modules
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax |
Flink | SHOW [FULL] MODULES |
Spark | No |
Hive | No |
Presto | No |
MySQL | No |
SnowFlake | No |
show jars
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax | Note |
Flink | SHOW JARS | only work in SQL CLI or SQL Gateway. |
Spark | No | |
Hive | No | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | No |
show jobs
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax | Note |
Flink | SHOW JOBS | only work in SQL CLI or SQL Gateway. |
Spark | No | |
Hive | No | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | No |
show create database
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntax | Note |
Flink | No | |
Spark | SHOW CREATE DATABASE [database_name] | |
Hive | SHOW CREATE DATABASE [database_name] | |
Presto | SHOW CREATE DATABASE [database_name] | |
MySQL | SHOW CREATE {DATABASE | SCHEMA} [IF NOT EXISTS] db_name | |
SnowFlake | SHOW CREATE DATABASE [database_name] |
show create function
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntaxes | Note |
Flink | No | |
Spark | No | |
Hive | SHOW CREATE FUNCTION [db_name.]function_name; | |
Presto | SHOW CREATE FUNCTION function_name [ ( parameter_type[, ...] ) ] | |
MySQL | SHOW CREATE FUNCTION func_name | |
SnowFlake | SHOW CREATE FUNCTION [schema_name.]function_name |
describe catalog
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntaxes | Note |
Flink | No | |
Spark | No | |
Hive | No | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | DESC[RIBE] SCHEMA <schema_name> |
describe database
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntaxes | Note |
Flink | { DESC | DESCRIBE } DATABASE [ EXTENDED ] db_name | but not expose to table api |
Spark | { DESC | DESCRIBE } DATABASE [ EXTENDED ] db_name | |
Hive | DESCRIBE DATABASE [EXTENDED] db_name; DESCRIBE SCHEMA [EXTENDED] db_name; | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | DESC[RIBE] DATABASE <database_name> |
describe function
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntaxes | Note |
Flink | No | |
Spark | { DESC | DESCRIBE } FUNCTION [ EXTENDED ] function_name | |
Hive | DESCRIBEFUNCTION [EXTENDED] <function_name> | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | DESC[RIBE] FUNCTION <name> ( [ <arg_data_type> ] [ , ... ] ) |
describe view
Engine | Support or Not, If support show the syntaxes | Note |
Flink | No | |
Spark | No | |
Hive | DESCRIBE EXTENDED <view_name>; | |
Presto | No | |
MySQL | No | |
SnowFlake | DESC[RIBE] VIEW <name> |
We can see many popular engines have filtering with show statements, support 'FROM/IN' or 'LIKE/ILIKE' filter clause except flink.
And currently flink only supports describing tables.
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