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# Tutorial: All About Queries
Hello! This tutorial is meant to provide a more in-depth look into Druid queries. The tutorial is somewhat incomplete right now but we hope to add more content to it in the near future.
Setup
-----
Before we start digging into how to query Druid, make sure you've gone through the other tutorials and are comfortable with spinning up a local cluster and loading data into Druid.
#### Booting a Druid Cluster
Let's start up a simple Druid cluster so we can query all the things.
Note: If Zookeeper and metadata storage aren't running, you'll have to start them again as described in [The Druid Cluster](Tutorial%3A-The-Druid-Cluster.html).
To start a Coordinator node:
```bash
java -Xmx256m -Duser.timezone=UTC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath config/_common:config/coordinator:lib/* io.druid.cli.Main server coordinator
```
To start a Historical node:
```bash
java -Xmx256m -Duser.timezone=UTC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath config/_common:config/historical:lib/* io.druid.cli.Main server historical
```
To start a Broker node:
```bash
java -Xmx256m -Duser.timezone=UTC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath config/_common:config/broker:lib/* io.druid.cli.Main server broker
```
Querying Your Data
------------------
Make sure you've completed [Loading Your Data](Loading-Your-Data-Part-1.html) so we have some data to query. Having done that, it's time to query our data! For a complete specification of queries, see [Querying](Querying.html).
#### Construct a Query
```json
{
"queryType": "groupBy",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"granularity": "all",
"dimensions": [],
"aggregations": [
{"type": "count", "name": "rows"},
{"type": "longSum", "name": "edit_count", "fieldName": "count"},
{"type": "doubleSum", "name": "chars_added", "fieldName": "added"}
],
"intervals": ["2010-01-01T00:00/2020-01-01T00"]
}
```
#### Query That Data
Run the query against your broker:
```bash
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8082/druid/v2/?pretty" -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d @query.body
```
And get:
```json
[ {
"version" : "v1",
"timestamp" : "2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"event" : {
"chars_added" : 1545.0,
"edit_count" : 5,
"rows" : 5
}
} ]
```
This result tells us that our query has 5 edits, and we have 5 rows of data as well. In those 5 edits, we have 1545 characters added.
#### What can I query for?
How are we to know what queries we can run? Although [Querying](Querying.html) is a helpful index, to get a handle on querying our data we need to look at our ingestion schema. There are a few particular fields we care about in the ingestion schema. All of these fields should in present in the real-time ingestion schema and the batch ingestion schema.
Datasource:
```json
"dataSource":"wikipedia"
```
Our dataSource tells us the name of the relation/table, or 'source of data'. What we decide to name our data source must match the data source we are going to be querying.
Granularity:
```json
"indexGranularity": "none",
```
Druid will roll up data at ingestion time unless the index/rollup granularity is specified as "none". Your query granularity cannot be lower than your index granularity.
Aggregators:
```json
"aggregators" : [{
"type" : "count",
"name" : "count"
}, {
"type" : "doubleSum",
"name" : "added",
"fieldName" : "added"
}, {
"type" : "doubleSum",
"name" : "deleted",
"fieldName" : "deleted"
}, {
"type" : "doubleSum",
"name" : "delta",
"fieldName" : "delta"
}]
```
The [Aggregations](Aggregations.html) specified at ingestion time correlated directly to the metrics that can be queried.
Dimensions:
```json
"dimensions" : ["page","language","user","unpatrolled","newPage","robot","anonymous","namespace","continent","country","region","city"]
```
These specify the dimensions that we can filter our data on. If we added a dimension to our groupBy query, we get:
```json
{
"queryType": "groupBy",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"granularity": "all",
"dimensions": ["namespace"],
"aggregations": [
{"type": "longSum", "name": "edit_count", "fieldName": "count"},
{"type": "doubleSum", "name": "chars_added", "fieldName": "added"}
],
"intervals": ["2010-01-01T00:00/2020-01-01T00"]
}
```
Which gets us data grouped over the namespace dimension in return!
```json
[ {
"version" : "v1",
"timestamp" : "2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"event" : {
"chars_added" : 180.0,
"edit_count" : 2,
"namespace" : "article"
}
}, {
"version" : "v1",
"timestamp" : "2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"event" : {
"chars_added" : 1365.0,
"edit_count" : 3,
"namespace" : "wikipedia"
}
} ]
```
Additionally,, we can also filter our query to narrow down our metric values:
```json
{
"queryType": "groupBy",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"granularity": "all",
"filter": { "type": "selector", "dimension": "namespace", "value": "article" },
"aggregations": [
{"type": "longSum", "name": "edit_count", "fieldName": "count"},
{"type": "doubleSum", "name": "chars_added", "fieldName": "added"}
],
"intervals": ["2010-01-01T00:00/2020-01-01T00"]
}
```
Which gets us metrics about only those edits where the namespace is 'article':
```json
[ {
"version" : "v1",
"timestamp" : "2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"event" : {
"chars_added" : 180.0,
"edit_count" : 2
}
} ]
```
Check out [Filters](Filters.html) for more information.
What Types of Queries to Use
----------------------------
The types of query you should use depends on your use case. [TimeBoundary queries](TimeBoundaryQuery.html) are useful to understand the range of your data. [Timeseries queries](TimeseriesQuery.html) are useful for aggregates and filters over a time range, and offer significant speed improvements over [GroupBy queries](GroupByQuery.html). To find the top values for a given dimension, [TopN queries](TopNQuery.html) should be used over group by queries as well.
## Learn More ##
You can learn more about querying at [Querying](Querying.html)! If you are ready to evaluate Druid more in depth, check out [Booting a production cluster](Booting-a-production-cluster.html)!