Aggregate Functions in Stargate’s GraphQL API

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2021,a new release of Stargate was applied to Astra. It includes an exciting new feature: aggregate functions! If you’re not familiar with aggregate functions, they are functions that look at the data as a whole and perform a function like min(), max(), sum(), count() and avg().

Until now, aggregate functions were only available using cqlsh (the CQL Shell). However…