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User Defined Functions - Support custom binaries with STDIN/STDOUT
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It would be extremely useful if we could create our own user defined functions in any language we choose, adding unparalleled flexibility to CRDB. It would provide capabilities like self-run version of Cloudflare's Durable Objects.
Clickhouse does this very well with strong specifications and error handling policies: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/functions/
Processing through STDIN & STDOUT allows any lanugage to be used as long as the function respects the expect data formats.
Support for SELECTs would be more than enough, as the result of a SELECT could be inserted. For example one function I've always wanted in CRDB is HyperLogLog support. Functions could be made like `hll_merge(IDENTIFIER, NEW_VAL)`, where to update a HLL you UPSERT the result of `hll_merge`, then use a function `hll_count(IDENTIFIER)` to read it.
Some immediate capabilities that could be unlocked are:
1. HyperLogLogs
2. Bloom filters
3. Complex running aggregations (materialized as well)
4. Room/multiplayer session management (e.g. collaborating on a google doc)
Jira issue: CRDB-22319
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