Response Format

Standard-SQL response

Response is returned in a SQL-like tabular structure. Note, this is the response returned from the standard-SQL endpoint. For PQL endpoint response, skip to PQL endpoint response

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
   -d '{"sql":"SELECT moo, bar, foo FROM myTable ORDER BY foo DESC"}' \
   http://localhost:8099/query/sql
{
  "exceptions": [], 
  "minConsumingFreshnessTimeMs": 0, 
  "numConsumingSegmentsQueried": 0, 
  "numDocsScanned": 6, 
  "numEntriesScannedInFilter": 0, 
  "numEntriesScannedPostFilter": 18, 
  "numGroupsLimitReached": false, 
  "numSegmentsMatched": 2, 
  "numSegmentsProcessed": 2, 
  "numSegmentsQueried": 2, 
  "numServersQueried": 1, 
  "numServersResponded": 1, 
  "resultTable": {
    "dataSchema": {
      "columnDataTypes": [
        "LONG",
        "INT",
        "STRING"
      ], 
      "columnNames": [
        "moo", 
        "bar",
        "foo"
      ]
    }, 
    "rows": [
      [ 
        40015, 
        2019,
        "xyz"
      ], 
      [
        1002,
        2001,
        "pqr"
      ], 
      [
        20555,
        1988,
        "pqr"
      ],
      [ 
        203,
        2010,
        "pqr"
      ], 
      [
        500,
        2008,
        "abc"
      ], 
      [
        60, 
        2003,
        "abc"
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "segmentStatistics": [], 
  "timeUsedMs": 4, 
  "totalDocs": 6, 
  "traceInfo": {}
}

where,

PQL response

Note

PQL endpoint is deprecated, and will soon be removed. The standard sql endpoint is the recommended endpoint.

The response received from PQL endpoint is different depending on the type of the query.

curl -X POST \
  -d '{"pql":"select * from flights limit 3"}' \
  http://localhost:8099/query


{
 "selectionResults":{
    "columns":[
       "Cancelled",
       "Carrier",
       "DaysSinceEpoch",
       "Delayed",
       "Dest",
       "DivAirports",
       "Diverted",
       "Month",
       "Origin",
       "Year"
    ],
    "results":[
       [
          "0",
          "AA",
          "16130",
          "0",
          "SFO",
          [],
          "0",
          "3",
          "LAX",
          "2014"
       ],
       [
          "0",
          "AA",
          "16130",
          "0",
          "LAX",
          [],
          "0",
          "3",
          "SFO",
          "2014"
       ],
       [
          "0",
          "AA",
          "16130",
          "0",
          "SFO",
          [],
          "0",
          "3",
          "LAX",
          "2014"
       ]
    ]
 },
 "traceInfo":{},
 "numDocsScanned":3,
 "aggregationResults":[],
 "timeUsedMs":10,
 "segmentStatistics":[],
 "exceptions":[],
 "totalDocs":102
}

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