Example: Aggregating Partial Results from a Query - Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications Developer Guide

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1. From October 15, 2025, you will not be able to create new Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications.

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Example: Aggregating Partial Results from a Query

If an Amazon Kinesis data stream contains records that have an event time that does not exactly match ingestion time, a selection of results in a tumbling window contains records that arrived, but did not necessarily occur, within the window. In this case, the tumbling window contains only a partial set of the results that you want. There are several approaches that you can use to correct this issue:

  • Use a tumbling window only, and aggregate partial results in post processing through a database or data warehouse using upserts. This approach is efficient in processing an application. It handles the late data indefinitely for aggregate operators (sum, min, max, and so on). The downside to this approach is that you must develop and maintain additional application logic in the database layer.

  • Use a tumbling and sliding window, which produces partial results early, but also continues to produce complete results over the sliding window period. This approach handles late data with an overwrite instead of an upsert so that no additional application logic needs to be added in the database layer. The downside to this approach is that it uses more Kinesis processing units (KPUs) and still produces two results, which might not work for some use cases.

For more information about tumbling and sliding windows, see Windowed Queries.

In the following procedure, the tumbling window aggregation produces two partial results (sent to the CALC_COUNT_SQL_STREAM in-application stream) that must be combined to produce a final result. The application then produces a second aggregation (sent to the DESTINATION_SQL_STREAM in-application stream) that combines the two partial results.

To create an application that aggregates partial results using an event time

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Kinesis console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis.

  2. Choose Data Analytics in the navigation pane. Create a Kinesis Data Analytics application as described in the Getting Started with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications tutorial.

  3. In the SQL editor, replace the application code with the following: 

    CREATE OR REPLACE STREAM "CALC_COUNT_SQL_STREAM" 
    (TICKER      VARCHAR(4), 
    TRADETIME   TIMESTAMP, 
    TICKERCOUNT       DOUBLE);
	            
CREATE OR REPLACE STREAM "DESTINATION_SQL_STREAM" 
    (TICKER      VARCHAR(4), 
    TRADETIME   TIMESTAMP, 
    TICKERCOUNT       DOUBLE);            
	
CREATE PUMP "CALC_COUNT_SQL_PUMP_001" AS 
    INSERT INTO "CALC_COUNT_SQL_STREAM" ("TICKER","TRADETIME", "TICKERCOUNT")
    SELECT STREAM
        "TICKER_SYMBOL",
        STEP("SOURCE_SQL_STREAM_001"."ROWTIME" BY INTERVAL '1' MINUTE) as "TradeTime",
        COUNT(*) AS "TickerCount"
    FROM "SOURCE_SQL_STREAM_001"
    GROUP BY
        STEP("SOURCE_SQL_STREAM_001".ROWTIME BY INTERVAL '1' MINUTE),
        STEP("SOURCE_SQL_STREAM_001"."APPROXIMATE_ARRIVAL_TIME" BY INTERVAL '1' MINUTE),
        TICKER_SYMBOL;

CREATE PUMP "AGGREGATED_SQL_PUMP" AS 
    INSERT INTO "DESTINATION_SQL_STREAM" ("TICKER","TRADETIME", "TICKERCOUNT")
    SELECT STREAM
        "TICKER",
        "TRADETIME",
        SUM("TICKERCOUNT") OVER W1 AS "TICKERCOUNT"
    FROM "CALC_COUNT_SQL_STREAM"
    WINDOW W1 AS (PARTITION BY "TRADETIME" RANGE INTERVAL '10' MINUTE PRECEDING);

    The SELECT statement in the application code filters rows in the SOURCE_SQL_STREAM_001 for stock price changes greater than 1 percent and inserts those rows into another in-application stream CHANGE_STREAM using a pump.

  4. Choose Save and run SQL.

The first pump outputs a stream to CALC_COUNT_SQL_STREAM similar to the following. Note that the result set is incomplete:

Console screenshot showing partial results.

The second pump then outputs a stream to DESTINATION_SQL_STREAM that contains the complete result set:

Console screenshot showing complete results.