How to group by time bucket in ClickHouse and fill missing data with nulls/0s

Question

Suppose I have a given time range. For explanation, let\'s consider something simple, like whole year 2018. I want to query data from ClickHouse as a sum aggregation for eac

Answer 1

From ClickHouse 19.14 you can use the WITH FILL clause. It can fill quarters in this way:

WITH
    (
        SELECT toRelativeQuarterNum(toDate('1970-01-01'))
    ) AS init
SELECT
    -- build the date from the relative quarter number
    toDate('1970-01-01') + toIntervalQuarter(q - init) AS time,
    metric
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toRelativeQuarterNum(created_at) AS q,
        sum(rand()) AS metric
    FROM
    (
        -- generate some dates and metrics values with gaps
        SELECT toDate(arrayJoin(range(1514761200, 1546210800, ((60 * 60) * 24) * 180))) AS created_at
    )
    GROUP BY q
    ORDER BY q ASC WITH FILL FROM toRelativeQuarterNum(toDate(1514761200)) TO toRelativeQuarterNum(toDate(1546210800)) STEP 1
)

┌───────time─┬─────metric─┐
│ 2018-01-01 │ 2950782089 │
│ 2018-04-01 │ 2972073797 │
│ 2018-07-01 │          0 │
│ 2018-10-01 │  179581958 │
└────────────┴────────────┘