Lua scripting issue

We are running a little POC with Aerospike to understand if we can run LUA scripts doing some stuff.

In this case, we used the flights example: https://github.com/aerospike/flights-analytics

I created a new index on the flight time in order to search by it.

The script runs over all the records and finds the last arrival time of a flight. We inserted only flights to Bufalo for simplicity sake.

local function aggregatCityToMax(result, record)

  city = string.upper(record['DEST_CITY_NAME'])
  flightTime = record['ARR_TIME']


    if result[city] == nil then

           info("CITY: |%s|      |        DATE: %d        |        MAX: null" , city, flightTime)
           result[city] = flightTime

    else

            info("CITY: |%s|      |        DATE: %d        |        MAX: %d" , city, flightTime, 
		result[city])

         if result[city] < flightTime then
           info("new MAX %s", flightTime)
           result[city] = flightTime
         end
    end

   return result

end

local function reduce_values(a, b)
   return map.merge(a, b, mergeFunction)
end


local function mergeFunction(a, b)

   info("merging:  %s VS %s ", a, b)

   if a < b then
       return b
   end

   return a
end

function mapMax(stream)
 return stream :  aggregate(map(), aggregatCityToMax) : reduce(reduce_values)
end

The log shows odd result:

  1. I don’t get the maximum.
  2. It looks like every 10 records, the maximum value is reset to null.

LOG:

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1253 | MAX: null

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1221 | MAX: 1253

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1600 | MAX: 1253

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1203 | MAX: 1600

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1424 | MAX: 1600

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2141 | MAX: 1600

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1821 | MAX: 2141

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1221 | MAX: 2141

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1424 | MAX: 2141

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1550 | MAX: 2141

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1703 | MAX: null

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2312 | MAX: 1703

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2251 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 19 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1030 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1257 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 803 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 19 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1502 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2319 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1735 | MAX: null

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1221 | MAX: 1735

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1258 | MAX: 1735

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2125 | MAX: 1735

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2251 | MAX: 2125

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1104 | MAX: 2251

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2053 | MAX: 2251

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1340 | MAX: 2251

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2312 | MAX: 2251

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2226 | MAX: 2312

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2053 | MAX: null

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1637 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1030 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1618 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1510 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1510 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2346 | MAX: 2053

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2343 | MAX: 2346

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1600 | MAX: 2346

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1550 | MAX: 2346

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1949 | MAX: null

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 1104 | MAX: 1949

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2045 | MAX: 1949

CITY: |BUFFALO| | DATE: 2213 | MAX: 2045

Did I do something wrong? Did I miss anything?

Thanks,

Ido Barash

@Ido_Barash

Hi! Since you also asked the same question on Stackoverflow, and we are answering it there, I am posting here the link to the conversation on that site: