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Calculate Median for each group in AWS Athena table

Below is the schema for the athena table

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I wish to calculate median for 'parameter_value' group by standard_lab_parameter_name & units. For this I followed link : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_MEDIAN.html But on running the query

select median(parameter_value) from table_name group by standard_lab_parameter_name, units

It throws error

 SYNTAX_ERROR: line 1:8: Function median not registered

Any help? Or if some alternative query would be great

Solution

  • Athena is based on Presto 0.172 - you can see all supported functions in AWS DML Queries, Functions, and Operators. I guess you could use approx_percentile(x, percentage) or approx_percentile(x, w, percentage, accuracy), see Presto Aggregate Functions:

    Returns the approximate percentile for all input values of x at the given percentage. The value of percentage must be between zero and one and must be constant for all input rows.

    select approx_percentile(parameter_value,0.5) 
from table_name 
group by standard_lab_parameter_name, units

    Keep in mind that this is a Approximate Aggregate Functions.