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ES|QL POW function

Serverless

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Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Returns a value raised to the power of an exponent.

Embedded
Embedded
base
Numeric expression for the base. If null, the function returns null.
exponent

Numeric expression for the exponent. If null, the function returns null.

Returns the value of base raised to the power of exponent.

Note

It is still possible to overflow a double result here; in that case, null will be returned.

base exponent result
double double double
double integer double
double long double
double unsigned_long double
integer double double
integer integer double
integer long double
integer unsigned_long double
long double double
long integer double
long long double
long unsigned_long double
unsigned_long double double
unsigned_long integer double
unsigned_long long double
unsigned_long unsigned_long double
ES|QL 
ROW base = 2.0, exponent = 2
| EVAL result = POW(base, exponent)
base:double exponent:integer result:double
2.0 2 4.0

The exponent can be a fraction, which is similar to performing a root. For example, the exponent of 0.5 will give the square root of the base:

ES|QL 
ROW base = 4, exponent = 0.5
| EVAL s = POW(base, exponent)
base:integer exponent:double s:double
4 0.5 2.0