For what SQL keyword is the Aggregation node the equivalent?

The Aggregation node in SAP HANA is equivalent to the GROUP BY SQL keyword because it serves a similar purpose in processing and summarizing data. While the Aggregation node allows you to perform calculations such as sums, averages, and counts across a specified set of data, the GROUP BY clause in SQL is used to group rows that have the same values in specified columns and aggregate them based on these groups.

For instance, when you want to analyze sales data by each product category, you would group the data by the category and then calculate total sales for each group using either the Aggregation node in HANA or the GROUP BY clause in SQL. This facilitates efficient data summarization and reporting, demonstrating how both approaches achieve the same outcome of collating and computing aggregates from a dataset based on defined groupings.