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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3640: --------------------------------------- Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1867#discussion_r59222873 --- Diff: docs/apis/batch/libs/table.md --- @@ -30,13 +30,21 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> -**The Table API: an experimental feature** +Flink's Table API is a a SQL-like expression language embedded in Java and Scala. +Instead of manipulating a `DataSet` or `DataStream`, you can create and work with the `Table` relational abstraction. +Tables have a schema and allow running relational operations on them, including selection, aggregation, and joins. +A `Table` can be created from a `DataSet` or a `DataStream` and then queried either using the Table API Operators or using SQL queries. --- End diff -- Table API Operators -> Table API operators > Add support for SQL queries in DataSet programs > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-3640 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3640 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Table API > Affects Versions: 1.1.0 > Reporter: Vasia Kalavri > Assignee: Vasia Kalavri > > This issue covers the task of supporting SQL queries embedded in DataSet > programs. In this mode, the input and output of a SQL query is a Table. For > this issue, we need to make the following additions to the Table API: > - add a {{tEnv.sql(query: String): Table}} method for converting a query > result into a Table > - integrate Calcite's SQL parser into the batch Table API translation process. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)