Query WadPerformanceCountersTable in Increments? - azure

I am trying to query the WadPerformanceCountersTable generated by Azure Diagnostics which has a PartitionKey based on tick marks accurate up to the minute. This PartitionKey is stored as a string (which I do not have any control over).
I want to be able to query against this table to get data points for every minute, every hour, every day, etc. so I don't have to pull all of the data (I just want a sampling to approximate it). I was hoping to using the modulus operator to do this, but since the PartitionKey is stored as a string and this is an Azure Table, I am having issues.
Is there any way to do this?
Non-working example:
var query =
(from entity in ServiceContext.CreateQuery<PerformanceCountersEntity>("WADPerformanceCountersTable")
where
long.Parse(entity.PartitionKey) % interval == 0 && //bad for a variety of reasons
String.Compare(entity.PartitionKey, partitionKeyEnd, StringComparison.Ordinal) < 0 &&
String.Compare(entity.PartitionKey, partitionKeyStart, StringComparison.Ordinal) > 0
select entity)
.AsTableServiceQuery();

If you just want to get a single row based on two different time interval (now and N time back) you can use the following query which returns the single row as described here:
// 10 minutes span Partition Key
DateTime now = DateTime.UtcNow;
// Current Partition Key
string partitionKeyNow = string.Format("0{0}", now.Ticks.ToString());
DateTime tenMinutesSpan = now.AddMinutes(-10);
string partitionKeyTenMinutesBack = string.Format("0{0}", tenMinutesSpan.Ticks.ToString());
//Get single row sample created last 10 mminutes
CloudTableQuery<WadPerformanceCountersTable> cloudTableQuery =
(
from entity in ServiceContext.CreateQuery<PerformanceCountersEntity>("WADPerformanceCountersTable")
where
entity.PartitionKey.CompareTo(partitionKeyNow) < 0 &&
entity.PartitionKey.CompareTo(partitionKeyTenMinutesBack) > 0
select entity
).Take(1).AsTableServiceQuery();

The only way I can see to do this would be to create a process to keep the Azure table in sync with another version of itself. In this table, I would store the PartitionKey as a number instead of a string. Once done, I could use a method similar to what I wrote in my question to query the data.
However, this is a waste of resources, so I don't recommend it. (I'm not implementing it myself, either.)

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Timeseries differencing - ArangoDB (AQL or Python)

I have a collection which holds documents, with each document having a data observation and the time that the data was captured.
e.g.
{
_key:....,
"data":26,
"timecaptured":1643488638.946702
}
where timecaptured for now is a utc timestamp.
What I want to do is get the duration between consecutive observations, with SQL I could do this with LAG for example, but with ArangoDB and AQL I am struggling to see how to do this at the database. So effectively the difference in timestamps between two documents in time order. I have a lot of data and I don't really want to pull it all into pandas.
Any help really appreciated.
Although the solution provided by CodeManX works, I prefer a different one:
FOR d IN docs
SORT d.timecaptured
WINDOW { preceding: 1 } AGGREGATE s = SUM(d.timecaptured), cnt = COUNT(1)
LET timediff = cnt == 1 ? null : d.timecaptured - (s - d.timecaptured)
RETURN timediff
We simply calculate the sum of the previous and the current document, and by subtracting the current document's timecaptured we can therefore calculate the timecaptured of the previous document. So now we can easily calculate the requested difference.
I only use the COUNT to return null for the first document (which has no predecessor). If you are fine with having a difference of zero for the first document, you can simply remove it.
However, neither approach is very straight forward or obvious. I put on my TODO list to add an APPEND aggregate function that could be used in WINDOW and COLLECT operations.
The WINDOW function doesn't give you direct access to the data in the sliding window but here is a rather clever workaround:
FOR doc IN collection
SORT doc.timecaptured
WINDOW { preceding: 1 }
AGGREGATE d = UNIQUE(KEEP(doc, "_key", "timecaptured"))
LET timediff = doc.timecaptured - d[0].timecaptured
RETURN MERGE(doc, {timediff})
The UNIQUE() function is available for window aggregations and can be used to get at the desired data (previous document). Aggregating full documents might be inefficient, so a projection should do, but remember that UNIQUE() will remove duplicate values. A document _key is unique within a collection, so we can add it to the projection to make sure that UNIQUE() doesn't remove anything.
The time difference is calculated by subtracting the previous' documents timecaptured value from the current document's one. In the case of the first record, d[0] is actually equal to the current document and the difference ends up being 0, which I think is sensible. You could also write d[-1].timecaptured - d[0].timecaptured to achieve the same. d[1].timecaptured - d[0].timecaptured on the other hand will give you the inverted timestamp for the first record because d[1] is null (no previous document) and evaluates to 0.
There is one risk: UNIQUE() may alter the order of the documents. You could use a subquery to sort by timecaptured again:
LET timediff = doc.timecaptured - (
FOR dd IN d SORT dd.timecaptured LIMIT 1 RETURN dd.timecaptured
)[0]
But it's not great for performance to use a subquery. Instead, you can use the aggregation variable d to access both documents and calculate the absolute value of the subtraction so that the order doesn't matter:
LET timediff = ABS(d[-1].timecaptured - d[0].timecaptured)

Cosmos DB paginated query with custom order by clause

I want to do a select query in Cosmos DB that returns a maximum number of results (say 50) and then gives me the continuation token so I can continue the search where I left off.
Now let's say my query has 2 equality conditions in my where clause, e.g.
where prop1 = "a" and prop2 = "w" and prop3 = "g"
In the results that are returned, I want the records that satisfy prop1 = "a" to appear first, followed by the results that have prop2 = "w" followed by the ones with prop3 = "g".
Why do I need it? Because while I could just get all the data to my application and sort it there, I can't pull all records obviously as that would mean pulling in too much data. So if I can't order it this way in cosmos itself, in the results that I get, I might only have those records that don't have prop1 = "a" at all. Now I could keep retrying this till I get the ones with prop1 = "a" (I need this because I want to show the results with prop1 = "a" as the first set of results to the user) but I might have to pull like a 100 times to get the first record since I have a huge dataset sitting in my Cosmos DB.
How can I handle this scenario in Cosmos? Thanks!
So if I am understanding your question correctly, you want to accomplish this:
SELECT * FROM c
WHERE
c.prop1 = 'a'
AND
c.prop2 = 'b'
AND
c.prop3 = 'c'
ORDER BY
c.prop1, c.prop2, c.prop3
OFFSET 0 LIMIT 25
Now, luckily you can now do this in CosmosDB SQL. But, there is a caveat. You have to set up a composite index in your collection to allow for this.
So, for this collection, my composite index would look like this:
Now, if I wanted to change it to this:
SELECT * FROM c
WHERE
c.prop1 = 'a'
AND
c.prop2 = 'b'
AND
c.prop3 = 'c'
ORDER BY
c.prop1 DESC, c.prop2, c.prop3
OFFSET 0 LIMIT 25
I could add another composite index to cover that use-case. You can see in your settings it's an array of arrays so you can add as many combinations as you'd like.
This should get you to where you need to be if I understood your question correctly.

How truncate time while querying documents for date comparison in Cosmos Db

I have document contains properties like this
{
"id":"1bd13f8f-b56a-48cb-9b49-7fc4d88beeac",
"name":"Sam",
"createdOnDateTime": "2018-07-23T12:47:42.6407069Z"
}
I want to query a document on basis of createdOnDateTime which is stored as string.
query e.g. -
SELECT * FROM c where c.createdOnDateTime>='2018-07-23' AND c.createdOnDateTime<='2018-07-23'
This will return all documents which are created on that day.
I am providing date value from date selector which gives only date without time so, it gives me problem while comparing date.
Is there any way to remove time from createdOnDateTime property or is there any other way to achieve this?
CosmosDB clients are storing timestamps in ISO8601 format and one of the good reasons to do so is that its lexicographical order matches the flow of time. Meaning - you can sort and compare those strings and get them ordered by time they represent.
So in this case you don't need to remove time components just modify the passed in parameters to get the result you need. If you want all entries from entire date of 2018-07-23 then you can use query:
SELECT * FROM c
WHERE c.createdOnDateTime >= '2018-07-23'
AND c.createdOnDateTime < '2018-07-24'
Please note that this query can use a RANGE index on createdOnDateTime.
Please use User Defined Function to implement your requirement, no need to update createdOnDateTime property.
UDF:
function con(date){
var myDate = new Date(date);
var month = myDate.getMonth()+1;
if(month<10){
month = "0"+month;
}
return myDate.getFullYear()+"-"+month+"-"+myDate.getDate();
}
SQL:
SELECT c.id,c.createdOnDateTime FROM c where udf.con(c.createdOnDateTime)>='2018-07-23' AND udf.con(c.createdOnDateTime)<='2018-07-23'
Output :
Hope it helps you.

Most appeared search between a particular time

I have a search log with fields namely time, place and the query. I want to find the most queried word from a particular place between a particular time. All the fields namely date,time, query_String are chararrays. I have the below pig script but it doesnot do what is required.
Data = LOAD 'data' USING CustomPigStorage();
FClients = FILTER Data BY NOT(country is null);
Clients = FOREACH FClients GENERATE date,time, country,query_string as query;
grp = group Clients by (query, country, date, time);
wth_count = foreach grp generate FLATTEN(group), COUNT(Clients) as count;
For example, I want the result to be "between 2pm and 3 pm, hello was searched 4 times from USA".
I am basically confused by the Count() function .Relatively new to pig. I believe my count() here is counting the total number of records I have.
Your query looks correct, COUNT(Clients) returns number of records in the bag, that came from Clients and belong to the group. To see it you can remove COUNT from "wth_count" statement and save results into a file and than look into it.
wth_count = foreach grp generate group, Clients;
store wth_count into 'path';
Your potential problem might be in the fact that you are using date and time columns in the group by and they produce too many groups. To mitigate this you could write a java static function that gets date and time and returns a single value for the range, for example 12-07-2012, 14.05.03 is converted into "12-07-2012 14h" and 12-07-2012, 14.05.05 into "12-07-2012 14h". This will create a key that covers the time interval 2pm and 3pm and will put all of the records from Clinets into that group's bag.

CouchDB function to sample records at a given interval.

I have records with a time value and need to be able to query them for a span of time and return only records at a given interval.
For example I may need all the records from 12:00 to 1:00 in 10 minute intervals giving me 12:00, 12:10, 12:20, 12:30, ... 12:50, 01:00. The interval needs to be a parameter and it may be any time value. 15 minutes, 47 seconds, 1.4 hours.
I attempted to do this doing some kind of reduce but that is apparently the wrong place to do it.
Here is what I have come up with. Comments are welcome.
Created a view for the time field so I can query a range of times. The view outputs the id and the time.
function(doc) {
emit([doc.rec_id, doc.time], [doc._id, doc.time])
}
Then I created a list function that accepts a param called interval. In the list function I work thru the rows and compare the current rows time to the last accepted time. If the span is greater or equal to the interval I add the row to the output and JSON-ify it.
function(head, req) {
// default to 30000ms or 30 seconds.
var interval = 30000;
// get the interval from the request.
if (req.query.interval) {
interval = req.query.interval;
}
// setup
var row;
var rows = [];
var lastTime = 0;
// go thru the results...
while (row = getRow()) {
// if the time from view is more than the interval
// from our last time then add it.
if (row.value[1] - lastTime > interval) {
lastTime = row.value[1];
rows.push(row);
}
}
// JSON-ify!
send(JSON.stringify({'rows' : rows}));
}
So far this is working well. I will test against some large data to see how the performance is. Any comments on how this could be done better or would this be the correct way with couch?
CouchDB is relaxed. If this is working for you, then I'd say stick with it and focus on your next top priority.
One quick optimization is to try not to build up a final answer in the _list function, but rather send() little pieces of the answer as you know them. That way, your function can run on an unlimited result size.
However, as you suspected, you are using a _list function basically to do an ad-hoc query which could be problematic as your database size grows.
I'm not 100% sure what you need, but if you are looking for documents within a time frame, there's a good chance that emit() keys should primarily sort by time. (In your example, the primary (leftmost) sort value is doc.rec_id.)
For a map function:
function(doc) {
var key = doc.time; // Just sort everything by timestamp.
emit(key, [doc._id, doc.time]);
}
That will build a map of all documents, ordered by the time timestamp. (I will assume the time value is like JSON.stringify(new Date), i.e. "2011-05-20T00:34:20.847Z".
To find all documents within, a 1-hour interval, just query the map view with ?startkey="2011-05-20T00:00:00.000Z"&endkey="2011-05-20T01:00:00.000Z".
If I understand your "interval" criteria correctly, then if you need 10-minute intervals, then if you had 00:00, 00:15, 00:30, 00:45, 00:50, then only 00:00, 00:30, 00:50 should be in the final result. Therefore, you are filtering the normal couch output to cut out unwanted results. That is a perfect job for a _list function. Simply use req.query.interval and only send() the rows that match the interval.

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