SciDB Functions
- Jason Kinchen
Owned by Jason Kinchen
Jul 24, 2024
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Table of All Functions
The following table lists the current functions available in SciDB expressions. The third column indicates which library contains that function. Where functions have individual pages, click the link to access those pages. For additional info on other functions, run: list('functions').
| Function Name | Description | Library |
|---|---|---|
| % | Remainder. | scidb |
* | Multiplication. | scidb |
| + | Addition. | scidb |
| - | Subtraction or additive inverse. | scidb |
| / | Division. | scidb |
| < | Less than. | scidb |
| <= | Less than or equal to. | scidb |
| <> | Not equal. | scidb |
| = | Equal. | scidb |
| > | Greater than. | scidb |
| >= | Greater than or equal to. | scidb |
| abs | Absolute value. | scidb |
| acos | Inverse (arc) cosine in radians. | scidb |
| allzeros | Return a zero-values timestamp. | timeseries |
and | Infix logical AND. | scidb |
| append_offset | Appends a GMT offset in seconds to a datetime attribute, yielding a datetimetz value. | scidb |
| apply_offset | Converts a GMT datetime to local datetime by subtracting the offset timezone value, and stores the result as datetimetz including the offset timezone value. | scidb |
| asin | Inverse (arc) sine in radians. | scidb |
| atan | Inverse (arc) tangent in radians. | scidb |
| binomcdf | Binomial cummulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| ceil | Round to next larger whole integer. | scidb |
| chi2cdf | Chi-squared cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| cos | Cosine, input in radians. | scidb |
| current_date | Current date value. | timeseries |
| current_time | Current time value. | timeseries |
| current_timestamp | Current timestamp value. | timeseries |
| date_dt | Day of a date value. | timeseries |
| date_fm | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| day_of_week | Returns an integer alue representing the day of the week: 0 (Sunday) through 6 (Saturday). | scidb |
| day_ts | Day of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| days_i | Days of an interval value. | timeseries |
| exp | Exponential function. | scidb |
| extract_dt | Extract a field you supply from a date value. | timeseries |
| extract_i | Extract a field you supply from an interval value. | timeseries |
| extract_tm | Extract a field you supply from a time value. | timeseries |
| extract_ts | Extract a field you supply from a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| first_index | The initial dimension value of the supplied dimension. This function takes two arguments: array name as a string, and optionally, dimension name as a string. | scidb |
| floor | Round to the next-lowest integer. | scidb |
| format_dt | Apply a format string to a date value. | timeseries |
| format_i | Apply a format sting to an interval value. | timeseries |
| format_tm | Apply a format string to a time value. | timeseries |
| format_ts | Apply a format string to a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| gcd_hf | Great circle distance, Haversine formula. | linear algebra |
| gcd_slc | Great circle distance, spherical law of cosines. | linear algebra |
| gcd_vif | Great circle distance, Vincenty formula. | linear algebra |
| geomcdf | Geometric cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| get_offset | Returns the timezone offset, in seconds. | scidb |
| high | Returns the maximum dimension value where the cell is is non-empty. This function takes two arguments: array name as a string, and optionally, dimension name as a string. | scidb |
| hour_i | Hour of an interval value. | timeseries |
| hour_of_day | Extracts the hour from a datetime attribute. | scidb |
| hour_tm | Hour of a time value. | timeseries |
| hour_ts | Hour of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| hygecdf | Hypergeometric cumulative distribution function | linear algebra |
| hygepmf | Hypergeometric probability mass function. | linear algebra |
| hygequant | Hypergeometric quantile function. | linear algebra |
| ibinomcdf | Inverse binomial cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| ichi2cdf | Inverse chi-squared cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| igeomcdf | Inverse geometric cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| ihygecdf | Inverse hypergeometric cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| iif | Inline if: iif(expression, value_if_true, value_otherwise). | scidb |
| inegbinomcdf | Inverse negative binomial cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| inormcdf | Inverse normal cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| instanceid | Returns the instance ID (int64) of the SciDB instance on which it is run. SciDB arrays are spread across some or all of the instances in the SciDB cluster. Thus, you can use the instanceid function to determine where the chunks of an array are stored. | scidb |
| interval | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| is_nan | Is NaN (not a number). | scidb |
| is_null | Is NULL. | scidb |
| itcdf | Inverse student's t-distribution cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| last_index | The final dimension value of the supplied dimension. This function takes two arguments: array name as a string, and optionally, dimension name as a string. | scidb |
| length | Returns the size of the supplied dimension. This function takes two arguments: array name as a string, and optionally, dimension name as a string. | scidb |
| localtime | The local time. | timeseries |
| localtimestamp | The timestamp, based on the local timezone. | timeseries |
| log | Natural logarithm. | scidb |
| log10 | Base-10 logarithm. | scidb |
| low | Returns the minimum dimension value where the cell is is non-empty. This function takes two arguments: array name as a string, and optionally, dimension name as a string. | scidb |
| make_dt | Returns a date value, assembled from individual values for year, month, and day. | timeseries |
| make_i | Returns an interval value, assembled from days, hours, minutes, seconds, and microseconds. | timeseries |
| make_tm | Returns a time value, assembled from individual values for hour, minutes, second, and microsecond. | timeseries |
| make_ts | Returns a timestamp value, assembled from individual values for year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond. OR Returns a timestamp value, assembled from a date value and a time value. | timeseries |
| max | Does not do what the name suggests. To find the maximum of two values, use iif(a > b, a, b) .
| scidb |
| min | Does not do what the name suggests. To find the minimum of two values, use iif(a < b, a, b) .
| scidb |
| min_i | Minutes of an interval value. | timeseries |
| min_tm | Minutes of a time value. | timeseries |
| min_ts | Minute of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| missing | Converts an int32 value into a NULL value with that missing reason code. Valid values must be in the range 0 ≤ x < 128. | scidb |
| missing_reason | Returns the missing reason code for a value, or -1 if the value is not missing. | scidb |
| month_dt | Month of a date value. | timeseries |
| month_ts | Month of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| msec_i | Milliseconds of an interval value. | timeseries |
| msec_tm | Milliseconds of a time value. | timeseries |
| msec_ts | Milliseconds of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| negbinomcdf | Negative binomial cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| normcdf | Normal cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| not | Boolean NOT. | scidb |
| now | Returns the current date and time. | scidb |
| now_dt | The current date. | timeseries |
| now_tm | The current time. | timeseries |
| now_ts | The current timestamp. | timeseries |
or | Infix logical OR. | scidb |
| pow | Raise to a power: pow(base,exponent). | scidb |
| random | Generate random positive integer. The maximum value is the maximum signed 32-bit integer: 2,147,483,647 | scidb |
| regex | Regular expression matching function regex(string_attribute, pattern). Uses the regular expression language from the Boost library. Returns true on a match. | scidb |
| scan_dt | Interpret input string according to the format and convert to a datetime: scan_dt(format, input). | timeseries |
| scan_i | Interpret input string according to the format and convert to a time interval: scan_i(format, input). | timeseries |
| scan_tm | Interpret input string according to the format and convert to a struct tm time value: scan_tm(format, input). | timeseries |
| scan_ts | Interpret input string according to the format and convert to a timestamp value: scan_ts(format, input). | timeseries |
| sec_i | Seconds of an interval value. | timeseries |
| sec_tm | Seconds of a time value. | timeseries |
| sec_ts | Seconds of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| sin | Sine function. | scidb |
| sizeof | Returns size of its argument data object in bytes, as a uint64. | scidb |
| sqrt | Square root. | scidb |
| strftime | Returns the formatted date and time, based on the formatting options that you pass to the function. The format string is as for the Linux strftime function. | scidb |
| strftime_dt | Returns the formatted date, based on the formatting options that you pass to the function. The format string is as for the Linux strftime function. | timeseries |
| strftime_tm | Returns the formatted time, based on the formatting options that you pass to the function. The format string is as for the Linux strftime function. | timeseries |
| strftime_ts | Returns the formatted timestamp, based on the formatting options that you pass to the function. The format string is as for the Linux strftime function. | timeseries |
| strip_offset | Returns the datetime value, after stripping the timezone offset from a datetimetz argument. | scidb |
| strlen | Returns the string length as an int32. | scidb |
| substr | Returns a substring of a string you supply: substr(the_string, start, len). start is 0-based | scidb |
| tan | Tangent. | scidb |
| tcdf | Student's t cumulative distribution function. | linear algebra |
| time | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| time_fm | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| timestamp | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| timestamp_fm | Datatype conversion. | timeseries |
| today_dt | The current date. | timeseries |
| today_ts | The current timestamp. | timeseries |
| togmt | Converts a datetimetz to a datetime, adding in the timezone offset to return the GMT date and time that corresponds to the input. | scidb |
| tomorrow_dt | Tomorrow's date. | timeseries |
| tomorrow_ts | Tomorrow's timestamp. | timeseries |
| tznow | Returns the current date and time as a datetimetz. | scidb |
| usec_i | Microseconds of an interval value. | timeseries |
| usec_tm | Microseconds of a time value. | timeseries |
| usec_ts | Microsecond of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| wday_dt | Weekday of a date value. | timeseries |
| wday_ts | Weekday of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| yday_dt | Julian date of a date value. | timeseries |
| yday_ts | Julian date of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| year_dt | Year of a date value. | timeseries |
| year_ts | Year of a timestamp value. | timeseries |
| yesterday_dt | Yesterday's date. | timeseries |
| yesterday_ts | Yesterday's timestamp. | timeseries |