Flink SQL:Queries(Window JOIN)

Window Join

Batch Streaming

A window join adds the dimension of time into the join criteria themselves. In doing so, the window join joins the elements of two streams that share a common key and are in the same window. The semantic of window join is same to the DataStream window join
窗口join将时间维度添加到连接条件本身。在这样做的过程中，窗口join将两个流的元素连接起来，这两个流共享一个公共key并且位于同一个窗口中。窗口join的语义与DataStream窗口join相同

For streaming queries, unlike other joins on continuous tables, window join does not emit intermediate results but only emits final results at the end of the window. Moreover, window join purge all intermediate state when no longer needed.
对于流式查询，与持续表上的其他join不同，窗口join不发出中间结果，而只在窗口末尾发出最终结果。此外，窗口join在不再需要时清除所有中间状态。

Usually, Window Join is used with Windowing TVF. Besides, Window Join could follow after other operations based on Windowing TVF, such as Window Aggregation, Window TopN and Window Join.
通常，窗口Join与Windowing TVF一起使用。此外，窗口Join还可以跟随基于Windowing TVF的其他操作，如Window Aggregation、Window TopN和Window Join。

Currently, Window Join requires the join on condition contains window starts equality of input tables and window ends equality of input tables.
当前，窗口join要求连接条件包含:输入表的窗口开始相等且输出表的窗口结束相等。

Window Join supports INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER/ANTI/SEMI JOIN.
窗口Join支持INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER/ANTI/SEMI JOIN。

INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER

The following shows the syntax of the INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER Window Join statement.
下面显示 INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER Window Join语句的语法。

SELECT ...
FROM L [LEFT|RIGHT|FULL OUTER] JOIN R -- L and R are relations applied windowing TVF
ON L.window_start = R.window_start AND L.window_end = R.window_end AND ...

The syntax of INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER WINDOW JOIN are very similar with each other, we only give an example for FULL OUTER JOIN here. When performing a window join, all elements with a common key and a common tumbling window are joined together. We only give an example for a Window Join which works on a Tumble Window TVF. By scoping the region of time for the join into fixed five-minute intervals, we chopped our datasets into two distinct windows of time: [12:00, 12:05) and [12:05, 12:10). The L2 and R2 rows could not join together because they fell into separate windows.
INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/FULL OUTER WINDOW JOIN的语法非常相似，我们在这里只给出一个FULL OUTER JOIN示例。执行窗口join时，具有公共key和公共滚动窗口的所有元素都将连接在一起。我们只给出了一个在Tumble Window TVF上工作的窗口join示例。通过将join的时间区域划分为固定的5分钟间隔，我们将数据集分割为两个不同的时间窗口：[12:00，12:05）和[12:05，12:10）。L2和R2行无法连接在一起，因为它们属于不同的窗口。

Flink SQL> desc LeftTable;
+----------+------------------------+------+-----+--------+----------------------------------+
|     name |                   type | null | key | extras |                        watermark |
+----------+------------------------+------+-----+--------+----------------------------------+
| row_time | TIMESTAMP(3) *ROWTIME* | true |     |        | `row_time` - INTERVAL '1' SECOND |
|      num |                    INT | true |     |        |                                  |
|       id |                 STRING | true |     |        |                                  |
+----------+------------------------+------+-----+--------+----------------------------------+

Flink SQL> SELECT * FROM LeftTable;
+------------------+-----+----+
|         row_time | num | id |
+------------------+-----+----+
| 2020-04-15 12:02 |   1 | L1 |
| 2020-04-15 12:06 |   2 | L2 |
| 2020-04-15 12:03 |   3 | L3 |
+------------------+-----+----+

Flink SQL> desc RightTable;
+----------+------------------------+------+-----+--------+----------------------------------+
|     name |                   type | null | key