Pivotal GemFireXD adding an INITCAP function to the distributed system

We recently released Pivotal GemFireXD BETA with the latest release of Pivotal HD. Pivotal GemFire XD is a memory-optimized, distributed data store that is designed for applications that have demanding scalability and availability requirements. With GemFire XD you can manage data entirely using in-memory tables, or you can persist very large tables to local disk store files or to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for big data deployments.

In this post we show how to add the popular INITCAP function to GemFireXD or SQLFire.

1. Create a class with a public static method as shown below , this class method will do the INITCAP for us in SQL terms.

  
package pivotal.au.accelarator.gemfirexd.sql.functions;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils;

public class GemFireXdSqlFunctions
{
    public static String initcap (String input)
    {
        return WordUtils.capitalizeFully(input);
    }
} 

2. Add the class to the classpath of the distributed system.

3. Create a stored function called INITCAP to use the method defined at #1

  
CREATE FUNCTION INITCAP (data VARCHAR(32672)) RETURNS VARCHAR(32672)
LANGUAGE JAVA
EXTERNAL NAME 'pivotal.au.accelarator.gemfirexd.sql.functions.GemFireXdSqlFunctions.initcap'
PARAMETER STYLE JAVA; 

4. Test as shown below.

  
sqlf> connect client 'localhost:1527';
sqlf> select initcap('pas APICELLA') from sysibm.sysdummy1;
1                                                                                                                               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pas Apicella                                                                                                                    

1 row selected  

For more information on Pivotal GemFireXD see the link below.

http://gopivotal.com/products/pivotal-hd