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git commit: TAJO-193: Add string pattern matching operators. (hyunsik)

Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/master 16d1895e5 -> 7b0dec6a7


TAJO-193: Add string pattern matching operators. (hyunsik)


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/commit/7b0dec6a
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/tree/7b0dec6a
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/diff/7b0dec6a

Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: 7b0dec6a7b44fbacf582f8e8fd78d68064b42a7c
Parents: 16d1895
Author: Hyunsik Choi <hy...@apache.org>
Authored: Mon Sep 23 11:25:29 2013 +0900
Committer: Hyunsik Choi <hy...@apache.org>
Committed: Mon Sep 23 11:25:29 2013 +0900

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 CHANGES.txt                                     |   2 +
 .../org/apache/tajo/algebra/LikePredicate.java  |  51 -------
 .../java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java    |   6 +-
 .../tajo/algebra/PatternMatchPredicate.java     |  69 +++++++++
 .../org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java     |   2 +-
 .../org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java     |   2 +-
 .../java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java   |  12 +-
 .../org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java    |   2 +-
 .../org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4   |  13 ++
 .../org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4  |  30 +++-
 .../tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java  |  24 ++-
 .../tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java      |   6 +-
 .../org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java   |   8 +-
 .../org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikeEval.java   |  96 ------------
 .../tajo/engine/eval/LikePredicateEval.java     |  49 +++++++
 .../engine/eval/PatternMatchPredicateEval.java  |  90 ++++++++++++
 .../tajo/engine/eval/RegexPredicateEval.java    |  53 +++++++
 .../engine/eval/SimilarToPredicateEval.java     |  43 ++++++
 .../tajo/engine/parser/HiveConverter.java       |  15 +-
 .../apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLAnalyzer.java  |  48 +++++-
 .../tajo/engine/planner/LogicalPlanner.java     |  29 +++-
 .../apache/tajo/engine/eval/TestEvalTree.java   |   5 +-
 .../tajo/engine/function/ExprTestBase.java      | 145 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../function/TestPatternMatchingPredicates.java | 137 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java      |  16 +-
 .../tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java      |  14 +-
 .../java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java |   2 -
 27 files changed, 767 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/CHANGES.txt
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 8b91f00..123ee14 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Release 0.2.0 - unreleased
 
   NEW FEATURES
 
+    TAJO-193: Add string pattern matching operators. (hyunsik)
+
     TAJO-101: HiveQL converter. (jaehwa)
 
     TAJO-144: Implement INSERT OVERWRITE clause. (hyunsik)

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/LikePredicate.java
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diff --git a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/LikePredicate.java b/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/LikePredicate.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e091df1..0000000
--- a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/LikePredicate.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.tajo.algebra;
-
-public class LikePredicate extends Expr {
-  private boolean not;
-  private ColumnReferenceExpr columnRef;
-  private Expr pattern;
-
-  public LikePredicate(boolean not, ColumnReferenceExpr columnReferenceExpr, Expr pattern) {
-    super(OpType.LikePredicate);
-    this.not = not;
-    this.columnRef = columnReferenceExpr;
-    this.pattern = pattern;
-  }
-
-  public boolean isNot() {
-    return not;
-  }
-
-  public ColumnReferenceExpr getColumnRef() {
-    return this.columnRef;
-  }
-
-  public Expr getPattern() {
-    return this.pattern;
-  }
-
-  boolean equalsTo(Expr expr) {
-    LikePredicate another = (LikePredicate) expr;
-    return not == another.not &&
-        columnRef.equals(another.columnRef) &&
-        pattern.equals(another.pattern);
-  }
-}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java
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diff --git a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java b/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java
index 7f46438..9b03fc0 100644
--- a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java
+++ b/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/OpType.java
@@ -64,10 +64,14 @@ public enum OpType {
   CaseWhen(CaseWhenPredicate.class),
   IsNullPredicate(IsNullPredicate.class),
   InPredicate(InPredicate.class),
-  LikePredicate(LikePredicate.class),
   ValueList(ValueListExpr.class),
   Is,
 
+  // pattern matching predicates
+  LikePredicate(PatternMatchPredicate.class),
+  SimilarToPredicate(PatternMatchPredicate.class),
+  Regexp(PatternMatchPredicate.class),
+
   // arithmetic operators
   Plus(BinaryOperator.class),
   Minus(BinaryOperator.class),

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/PatternMatchPredicate.java
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diff --git a/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/PatternMatchPredicate.java b/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/PatternMatchPredicate.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3c7ba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tajo-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/algebra/PatternMatchPredicate.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.algebra;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+
+public class PatternMatchPredicate extends Expr {
+  private boolean not;
+  private Expr columnRef;
+  private Expr pattern;
+  private boolean caseInsensitive;
+
+  public PatternMatchPredicate(OpType opType, boolean not, Expr predicand, Expr pattern,
+                               boolean caseInsensitive) {
+    super(opType);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(
+        opType == OpType.LikePredicate || opType == OpType.SimilarToPredicate || opType == OpType.Regexp,
+        "pattern matching predicate is only available: " + opType.name());
+    this.not = not;
+    this.columnRef = predicand;
+    this.pattern = pattern;
+    this.caseInsensitive = caseInsensitive;
+  }
+
+  public PatternMatchPredicate(OpType opType, boolean not, Expr predicand, Expr pattern) {
+    this(opType, not, predicand, pattern, false);
+  }
+
+  public boolean isNot() {
+    return not;
+  }
+
+  public Expr getPredicand() {
+    return this.columnRef;
+  }
+
+  public Expr getPattern() {
+    return this.pattern;
+  }
+
+  public boolean isCaseInsensitive() {
+    return this.caseInsensitive;
+  }
+
+  boolean equalsTo(Expr expr) {
+    PatternMatchPredicate another = (PatternMatchPredicate) expr;
+    return opType == another.opType &&
+        not == another.not &&
+        columnRef.equals(another.columnRef) &&
+        pattern.equals(another.pattern) &&
+        caseInsensitive == another.caseInsensitive;
+  }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java
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diff --git a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java
index fc543b4..e7c4d39 100644
--- a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java
+++ b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/BooleanDatum.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public class BooleanDatum extends Datum {
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public String asChars() {
-		return val ? "true" : "false";
+		return val ? "t" : "f";
 	}
 
   @Override

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java
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diff --git a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java
index 4563779..cc0089c 100644
--- a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java
+++ b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/DatumFactory.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public class DatumFactory {
   }
   
   public static BooleanDatum createBool(String val) {
-    boolean boolVal = val.equalsIgnoreCase("true");
+    boolean boolVal = val.equalsIgnoreCase("t");
     return new BooleanDatum(boolVal);
   }
   

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java
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diff --git a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java
index 500f402..71d08d3 100644
--- a/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java
+++ b/tajo-common/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/NullDatum.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import static org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes.Type;
 
 public class NullDatum extends Datum {
   private static final NullDatum instance;
-  private static String NULL_STRING = "null";
+  private static String NULL_STRING = "";
   private static byte[] NULL_CHAR = NULL_STRING.getBytes();
   
   static {
@@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ public class NullDatum extends Datum {
 
   @Override
   public short asInt2() {
-    return Short.MIN_VALUE;
+    return 0;
   }
 
   @Override
   public int asInt4() {
-    return Integer.MIN_VALUE;
+    return 0;
   }
 
   @Override
   public long asInt8() {
-    return Long.MIN_VALUE;
+    return 0;
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ public class NullDatum extends Datum {
 
   @Override
   public float asFloat4() {
-    return Float.NaN;
+    return 0f;
   }
 
   @Override
   public double asFloat8() {
-    return Double.NaN;
+    return 0d;
   }
 
   @Override

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-common/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java
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diff --git a/tajo-common/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java b/tajo-common/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java
index 3623f88..3175510 100644
--- a/tajo-common/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java
+++ b/tajo-common/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/datum/TestBoolDatum.java
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class TestBoolDatum {
 	@Test
 	public final void testAsChars() {
 		Datum d = DatumFactory.createBool(true);
-		assertEquals("true", d.asChars());
+		assertEquals("t", d.asChars());
 	}
 	
 	@Test

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4 b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4
index 627829e..4a32cf2 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLLexer.g4
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ GROUPING : G R O U P I N G;
 
 HAVING : H A V I N G;
 
+ILIKE : I L I K E;
 IN : I N;
 INDEX : I N D E X;
 INNER : I N N E R;
@@ -188,7 +189,9 @@ OVERWRITE : O V E R W R I T E;
 
 PRECISION : P R E C I S I ON;
 
+REGEXP : R E G E X P;
 RIGHT : R I G H T;
+RLIKE : R L I K E;
 ROLLUP : R O L L U P;
 
 SET : S E T;
@@ -227,17 +230,22 @@ FUSION : F U S I O N;
 
 INTERSECTION : I N T E R S E C T I O N;
 
+SIMILAR : S I M I L A R;
 STDDEV_POP : S T D D E V UNDERLINE P O P;
 STDDEV_SAMP : S T D D E V UNDERLINE S A M P;
 SUM : S U M;
 
+TO : T O;
+
 Nonreserved_keywords
   : COLLECT
   | FUSION
   | INTERSECTION
+  | SIMILAR
   | STDDEV_POP
   | STDDEV_SAMP
   | SUM
+  | TO
   ;
 
 /*
@@ -292,6 +300,11 @@ BYTEA : B Y T E A; // alias for BLOB
 INET4 : I N E T '4';
 
 // Operators
+Similar_To : '~';
+Not_Similar_To : '!~';
+Similar_To_Case_Insensitive : '~*';
+Not_Similar_To_Case_Insensitive : '!~*';
+
 ASSIGN  : ':=';
 EQUAL  : '=';
 SEMI_COLON :  ';';

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4 b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4
index e4256bf..049d447 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLParser.g4
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ boolean_primary
 predicate
   : comparison_predicate
   | in_predicate
-  | like_predicate
+  | pattern_matching_predicate
   | null_predicate
   ;
 
@@ -681,14 +681,34 @@ in_value_list
 
 /*
 ===============================================================================
-  <like_predicate>
+  <pattern_matching_predicate>
 
-  Specify a pattern-match comparison.
+  Specify a pattern-matching comparison.
 ===============================================================================
 */
 
-like_predicate
-  : f=column_reference NOT? LIKE s=Character_String_Literal
+pattern_matching_predicate
+  : f=numeric_primary pattern_matcher s=Character_String_Literal
+  ;
+
+pattern_matcher
+  : NOT? negativable_matcher
+  | regex_matcher
+  ;
+
+negativable_matcher
+  : LIKE
+  | ILIKE
+  | SIMILAR TO
+  | REGEXP
+  | RLIKE
+  ;
+
+regex_matcher
+  : Similar_To
+  | Not_Similar_To
+  | Similar_To_Case_Insensitive
+  | Not_Similar_To_Case_Insensitive
   ;
 
 /*

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java
index 8d6e250..7e34c5a 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/BasicEvalNodeVisitor.java
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public class BasicEvalNodeVisitor<CONTEXT, RESULT> implements EvalNodeVisitor2<C
         result = visitGreaterThanOrEqual(context, stack, (BinaryEval) evalNode);
         break;
 
-      // Other Predicates
+      // SQL standard predicates
       case IS_NULL:
         result = visitIsNull(context, stack, (IsNullEval) evalNode);
         break;
@@ -97,8 +97,16 @@ public class BasicEvalNodeVisitor<CONTEXT, RESULT> implements EvalNodeVisitor2<C
       case IN:
         result = visitInPredicate(context, stack, (InEval) evalNode);
         break;
+
+      // Pattern match predicates
       case LIKE:
-        result = visitLike(context, stack, (LikeEval) evalNode);
+        result = visitLike(context, stack, (LikePredicateEval) evalNode);
+        break;
+      case SIMILAR_TO:
+        result = visitSimilarTo(context, stack, (SimilarToPredicateEval) evalNode);
+        break;
+      case Regex:
+        result = visitRegex(context, stack, (RegexPredicateEval) evalNode);
         break;
 
       // Functions
@@ -264,7 +272,17 @@ public class BasicEvalNodeVisitor<CONTEXT, RESULT> implements EvalNodeVisitor2<C
   }
 
   @Override
-  public RESULT visitLike(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, LikeEval evalNode) {
+  public RESULT visitLike(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, LikePredicateEval evalNode) {
+    return visitDefaultBinaryEval(context, stack, evalNode);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public RESULT visitSimilarTo(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, SimilarToPredicateEval evalNode) {
+    return visitDefaultBinaryEval(context, stack, evalNode);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public RESULT visitRegex(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, RegexPredicateEval evalNode) {
     return visitDefaultBinaryEval(context, stack, evalNode);
   }
 

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java
index abb6b51..5c48008 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalNodeVisitor2.java
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ public interface EvalNodeVisitor2<CONTEXT, RESULT> {
   RESULT visitCaseWhen(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, CaseWhenEval evalNode);
   RESULT visitIfThen(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, CaseWhenEval.IfThenEval evalNode);
   RESULT visitInPredicate(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, InEval evalNode);
-  RESULT visitLike(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, LikeEval evalNode);
+
+  // Pattern matching predicates
+  RESULT visitLike(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, LikePredicateEval evalNode);
+  RESULT visitSimilarTo(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, SimilarToPredicateEval evalNode);
+  RESULT visitRegex(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, RegexPredicateEval evalNode);
 
   // Functions
   RESULT visitFuncCall(CONTEXT context, Stack<EvalNode> stack, FuncCallEval evalNode);

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java
index 2e6742f..e10017e 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/EvalType.java
@@ -42,8 +42,12 @@ public enum EvalType {
   AGG_FUNCTION(AggFuncCallEval.class),
   FUNCTION(FuncCallEval.class),
 
-  // Predicate
-  LIKE(LikeEval.class),
+  // String pattern matching
+  LIKE(LikePredicateEval.class),
+  SIMILAR_TO(SimilarToPredicateEval.class),
+  Regex(RegexPredicateEval.class),
+
+  // Other predicates
   CASE(CaseWhenEval.class),
   IF_THEN(CaseWhenEval.IfThenEval.class),
   IN(InEval.class),

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikeEval.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikeEval.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikeEval.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d3ab277..0000000
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikeEval.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.tajo.engine.eval;
-
-import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
-import org.apache.tajo.catalog.CatalogUtil;
-import org.apache.tajo.catalog.Column;
-import org.apache.tajo.catalog.Schema;
-import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes;
-import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes.DataType;
-import org.apache.tajo.datum.BooleanDatum;
-import org.apache.tajo.datum.Datum;
-import org.apache.tajo.datum.DatumFactory;
-import org.apache.tajo.datum.TextDatum;
-import org.apache.tajo.storage.Tuple;
-
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
-
-public class LikeEval extends BinaryEval {
-  @Expose private boolean not;
-  @Expose private Column column;
-  @Expose private String pattern;
-  private static final DataType [] RES_TYPE =
-      CatalogUtil.newDataTypesWithoutLen(TajoDataTypes.Type.BOOLEAN);
-
-  // temporal variables
-  private Integer fieldId = null;
-  private Pattern compiled;
-  private BooleanDatum result;
-
-  
-  public LikeEval(boolean not, FieldEval field, ConstEval pattern) {
-    super(EvalType.LIKE, field, pattern);
-    this.not = not;
-    this.column = field.getColumnRef();
-    this.pattern = pattern.getValue().asChars();
-  }
-  
-  public void compile(String pattern) {
-    String regex = pattern.replace("?", ".");
-    regex = regex.replace("%", ".*");
-    
-    this.compiled = Pattern.compile(regex,
-        Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL);
-    result = DatumFactory.createBool(false);
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public DataType [] getValueType() {
-    return RES_TYPE;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public String getName() {
-    return "?";
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public void eval(EvalContext ctx, Schema schema, Tuple tuple) {
-    if (fieldId == null) {
-      fieldId = schema.getColumnId(column.getQualifiedName());
-      compile(this.pattern);
-    }    
-    TextDatum str = tuple.getString(fieldId);
-    if (not) {
-      result.setValue(!compiled.matcher(str.asChars()).matches());      
-    } else {
-      result.setValue(compiled.matcher(str.asChars()).matches());
-    }
-  }
-
-  public Datum terminate(EvalContext ctx) {
-    return result;
-  }
-  
-  @Override
-  public String toString() {
-    return this.column + " like '" + pattern +"'";
-  }
-}
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikePredicateEval.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikePredicateEval.java
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index 0000000..ac7aeeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/LikePredicateEval.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.eval;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
+
+public class LikePredicateEval extends PatternMatchPredicateEval {
+  private static final String LIKE_ESCAPE_SPATIAL_CHARACTERS = "([.*${}?|\\^\\-\\[\\]])";
+
+  public LikePredicateEval(boolean not, EvalNode field, ConstEval pattern, boolean caseSensitive) {
+    super(EvalType.LIKE, not, field, pattern, caseSensitive);
+  }
+
+  private String escapeRegexpForLike(String literal) {
+    return literal.replaceAll(LIKE_ESCAPE_SPATIAL_CHARACTERS, "\\\\$1");
+  }
+  
+  protected void compile(String pattern) throws PatternSyntaxException {
+    String escaped = escapeRegexpForLike(pattern);
+    String regex = escaped.replace("_", ".").replace("%", ".*");
+    int flags = Pattern.DOTALL;
+    if (caseInsensitive) {
+      flags |= Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE;
+    }
+    this.compiled = Pattern.compile(regex, flags);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return leftExpr.toString() + (caseInsensitive ? "ILIKE" : "LIKE") + "'" + pattern +"'";
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/PatternMatchPredicateEval.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/PatternMatchPredicateEval.java
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index 0000000..83ee1e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/PatternMatchPredicateEval.java
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.eval;
+
+import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
+import org.apache.tajo.catalog.CatalogUtil;
+import org.apache.tajo.catalog.Schema;
+import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes;
+import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes.DataType;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.BooleanDatum;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.Datum;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.DatumFactory;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.NullDatum;
+import org.apache.tajo.storage.Tuple;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
+
+public abstract class PatternMatchPredicateEval extends BinaryEval {
+  private static final DataType [] RES_TYPE = CatalogUtil.newDataTypesWithoutLen(TajoDataTypes.Type.BOOLEAN);
+
+  @Expose protected boolean not;
+  @Expose protected String pattern;
+  @Expose protected boolean caseInsensitive;
+
+  // transient variables
+  private EvalContext leftContext;
+  private boolean isNullResult = false;
+  private BooleanDatum result;
+  protected Pattern compiled;
+
+  public PatternMatchPredicateEval(EvalType evalType, boolean not, EvalNode predicand, ConstEval pattern,
+                                   boolean caseInsensitive) {
+    super(evalType, predicand, pattern);
+    this.not = not;
+    this.pattern = pattern.getValue().asChars();
+    this.caseInsensitive = caseInsensitive;
+  }
+
+  public PatternMatchPredicateEval(EvalType evalType, boolean not, EvalNode field, ConstEval pattern) {
+    this(evalType, not, field, pattern, false);
+  }
+
+  abstract void compile(String pattern) throws PatternSyntaxException;
+
+  @Override
+  public DataType [] getValueType() {
+    return RES_TYPE;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return "?";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void eval(EvalContext ctx, Schema schema, Tuple tuple) {
+    if (leftContext == null) {
+      leftContext = leftExpr.newContext();
+      result = DatumFactory.createBool(false);
+      compile(this.pattern);
+    }
+
+    leftExpr.eval(leftContext, schema, tuple);
+    Datum predicand = leftExpr.terminate(leftContext);
+    isNullResult = predicand instanceof NullDatum;
+    boolean matched = compiled.matcher(predicand.asChars()).matches();
+    result.setValue(matched ^ not);
+  }
+
+  public Datum terminate(EvalContext ctx) {
+    return !isNullResult ? result : NullDatum.get();
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/RegexPredicateEval.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/RegexPredicateEval.java
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+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/RegexPredicateEval.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.eval;
+
+import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
+
+public class RegexPredicateEval extends PatternMatchPredicateEval {
+  @Expose private String operator;
+  public RegexPredicateEval(boolean not, EvalNode field, ConstEval pattern, boolean caseInsensitive) {
+    super(EvalType.Regex, not, field, pattern, caseInsensitive);
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    if (not) {
+      sb.append("!");
+    }
+    sb.append("~");
+    if (caseInsensitive) {
+      sb.append("*");
+    }
+    this.operator = sb.toString();
+  }
+  
+  protected void compile(String regex) throws PatternSyntaxException {
+    int flags = Pattern.DOTALL;
+    if (caseInsensitive) {
+      flags |= Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE;
+    }
+    this.compiled = Pattern.compile(regex, flags);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return leftExpr.toString() + operator + "'" + pattern +"'";
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/SimilarToPredicateEval.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/SimilarToPredicateEval.java
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index 0000000..9ac0e62
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+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/SimilarToPredicateEval.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.eval;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
+
+public class SimilarToPredicateEval extends PatternMatchPredicateEval {
+  private static final String SIMILARTO_ESCAPE_SPATIAL_CHARACTERS = "([.])";
+
+  public SimilarToPredicateEval(boolean not, EvalNode field, ConstEval pattern) {
+    super(EvalType.SIMILAR_TO, not, field, pattern);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected void compile(String pattern) throws PatternSyntaxException {
+    String regex = pattern.replaceAll(SIMILARTO_ESCAPE_SPATIAL_CHARACTERS, "\\\\$1");
+    regex = regex.replace("_", ".").replace("%", ".*"); // transform some special characters to be 'like'.
+
+    this.compiled = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.DOTALL);
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return leftExpr.toString() + " SIMILAR TO '" + pattern + "'";
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/HiveConverter.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/HiveConverter.java
index 8429759..2e16813 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/HiveConverter.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/HiveConverter.java
@@ -705,10 +705,7 @@ public class HiveConverter extends HiveParserBaseVisitor<Expr>{
 
     /**
      * This method parse operators for equals expressions as follows:
-     *   =, <>, !=, >=, >, <=, <, IN, NOT IN, LIKE
-     *
-     * And Tajo doesn't provide some operators as follows:
-     *   REGEXP, RLIKE
+     *   =, <>, !=, >=, >, <=, <, IN, NOT IN, LIKE, REGEXP, RLIKE
      *
      * In this case, this make RuntimeException>
      *
@@ -763,9 +760,9 @@ public class HiveConverter extends HiveParserBaseVisitor<Expr>{
                 } else if(keyword.equals("!=")) {
                     type = OpType.NotEquals;
                 } else if(keyword.equals("REGEXP")) {
-                    throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected operator : REGEXP");
+                    type = OpType.Regexp;
                 } else if(keyword.equals("RLIKE")) {
-                    throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected operator : RLIKE");
+                    type = OpType.Regexp;
                 } else if(keyword.equals("LIKE")) {
                     type = OpType.LikePredicate;
                 }
@@ -774,8 +771,12 @@ public class HiveConverter extends HiveParserBaseVisitor<Expr>{
 
         if(type != null && right != null) {
             if(type.equals(OpType.LikePredicate)) {
-                LikePredicate like = new LikePredicate(isNot, (ColumnReferenceExpr)left, (LiteralValue)right);
+                PatternMatchPredicate like = new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.LikePredicate,
+                    isNot, left, right);
                 current = like;
+            } else if (type.equals(OpType.Regexp)) {
+              PatternMatchPredicate regex = new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, isNot, left, right);
+              current = regex;
             } else {
                 BinaryOperator binaryOperator = new BinaryOperator(type, left, right);
                 current = binaryOperator;

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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLAnalyzer.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLAnalyzer.java
index 97c66b5..e38a3b3 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLAnalyzer.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/parser/SQLAnalyzer.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.tajo.engine.parser;
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.ANTLRInputStream;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.misc.NotNull;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.TerminalNode;
 import org.apache.tajo.algebra.*;
 import org.apache.tajo.algebra.Aggregation.GroupType;
@@ -623,13 +624,41 @@ public class SQLAnalyzer extends SQLParserBaseVisitor<Expr> {
   }
 
   @Override
-  public LikePredicate visitLike_predicate(SQLParser.Like_predicateContext ctx) {
-    boolean not = ctx.NOT() != null;
-
-    ColumnReferenceExpr predicand = (ColumnReferenceExpr) visit(ctx.column_reference());
+  public Expr visitPattern_matching_predicate(SQLParser.Pattern_matching_predicateContext ctx) {
+    Expr predicand = visitChildren(ctx.numeric_primary());
     Expr pattern = new LiteralValue(stripQuote(ctx.Character_String_Literal().getText()),
         LiteralType.String);
-    return new LikePredicate(not, predicand, pattern);
+
+    if (checkIfExist(ctx.pattern_matcher().negativable_matcher())) {
+      boolean not = ctx.pattern_matcher().NOT() != null;
+      Negativable_matcherContext matcher = ctx.pattern_matcher().negativable_matcher();
+      if (checkIfExist(matcher.LIKE())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.LikePredicate, not, predicand, pattern);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.ILIKE())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.LikePredicate, not, predicand, pattern, true);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.SIMILAR())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.SimilarToPredicate, not, predicand, pattern);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.REGEXP()) || checkIfExist(matcher.RLIKE())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, not, predicand, pattern);
+      } else {
+        throw new SQLSyntaxError("Unsupported predicate: " + matcher.getText());
+      }
+    } else if (checkIfExist(ctx.pattern_matcher().regex_matcher())) {
+      Regex_matcherContext matcher = ctx.pattern_matcher().regex_matcher();
+      if (checkIfExist(matcher.Similar_To())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, false, predicand, pattern, false);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.Not_Similar_To())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, true, predicand, pattern, false);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.Similar_To_Case_Insensitive())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, false, predicand, pattern, true);
+      } else if (checkIfExist(matcher.Not_Similar_To_Case_Insensitive())) {
+        return new PatternMatchPredicate(OpType.Regexp, true, predicand, pattern, true);
+      } else {
+        throw new SQLSyntaxError("Unsupported predicate: " + matcher.getText());
+      }
+    } else {
+      throw new SQLSyntaxError("Unsupported predicate: " + ctx.pattern_matcher().getText());
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -639,6 +668,15 @@ public class SQLAnalyzer extends SQLParserBaseVisitor<Expr> {
   }
 
   @Override
+  public Expr visitLiteral(@NotNull SQLParser.LiteralContext ctx) {
+    if (checkIfExist(ctx.NULL())) {
+      return new NullValue();
+    } else {
+      return visitChildren(ctx);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
   public ColumnReferenceExpr visitColumn_reference(SQLParser.Column_referenceContext ctx) {
     ColumnReferenceExpr column = new ColumnReferenceExpr(ctx.name.getText());
     if (ctx.tb_name != null) {

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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/planner/LogicalPlanner.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/planner/LogicalPlanner.java
index 17f3634..6dd3e77 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/planner/LogicalPlanner.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/planner/LogicalPlanner.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes;
 import org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes.DataType;
 import org.apache.tajo.datum.Datum;
 import org.apache.tajo.datum.DatumFactory;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.NullDatum;
 import org.apache.tajo.engine.eval.*;
 import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.LogicalPlan.QueryBlock;
 import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.logical.*;
@@ -918,6 +919,9 @@ public class LogicalPlanner extends BaseAlgebraVisitor<LogicalPlanner.PlanContex
 
     switch(expr.getType()) {
       // constants
+      case Null:
+        return new ConstEval(NullDatum.get());
+
       case Literal:
         LiteralValue literal = (LiteralValue) expr;
         switch (literal.getValueType()) {
@@ -951,12 +955,27 @@ public class LogicalPlanner extends BaseAlgebraVisitor<LogicalPlanner.PlanContex
         NotExpr notExpr = (NotExpr) expr;
         return new NotEval(createEvalTree(plan, block, notExpr.getChild()));
 
-      // binary expressions
+      // pattern matching predicates
       case LikePredicate:
-        LikePredicate like = (LikePredicate) expr;
-        FieldEval field = (FieldEval) createEvalTree(plan, block, like.getColumnRef());
-        ConstEval pattern = (ConstEval) createEvalTree(plan, block, like.getPattern());
-        return new LikeEval(like.isNot(), field, pattern);
+      case SimilarToPredicate:
+      case Regexp:
+        PatternMatchPredicate patternMatch = (PatternMatchPredicate) expr;
+        EvalNode field = createEvalTree(plan, block, patternMatch.getPredicand());
+        ConstEval pattern = (ConstEval) createEvalTree(plan, block, patternMatch.getPattern());
+
+        // A pattern is a const value in pattern matching predicates.
+        // In a binary expression, the result is always null if a const value in left or right side is null.
+        if (pattern.getValue() instanceof NullDatum) {
+          return new ConstEval(NullDatum.get());
+        } else {
+          if (expr.getType() == OpType.LikePredicate) {
+            return new LikePredicateEval(patternMatch.isNot(), field, pattern, patternMatch.isCaseInsensitive());
+          } else if (expr.getType() == OpType.SimilarToPredicate) {
+            return new SimilarToPredicateEval(patternMatch.isNot(), field, pattern);
+          } else {
+            return new RegexPredicateEval(patternMatch.isNot(), field, pattern, patternMatch.isCaseInsensitive());
+          }
+        }
 
       case InPredicate: {
         InPredicate inPredicate = (InPredicate) expr;

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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/TestEvalTree.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/TestEvalTree.java
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--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/TestEvalTree.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/eval/TestEvalTree.java
@@ -624,6 +624,7 @@ public class TestEvalTree {
     "select name, score, age from people where name like '%bc'", // 0"
     "select name, score, age from people where name like 'aa%'", // 1"
     "select name, score, age from people where name not like '%bc'", // 2"
+    "select name, score, age from people where name like '.*b_'", // 3"
   };
   
   @Test
@@ -631,6 +632,7 @@ public class TestEvalTree {
     EvalNode expr;
 
     Schema peopleSchema = cat.getTableDesc("people").getMeta().getSchema();
+    // prefix
     expr = getRootSelection(LIKE[0]);
     EvalContext evalCtx = expr.newContext();
     expr.eval(evalCtx, peopleSchema, tuples[0]);
@@ -640,7 +642,7 @@ public class TestEvalTree {
     expr.eval(evalCtx, peopleSchema, tuples[2]);
     assertTrue(expr.terminate(evalCtx).asBool());
     
-    // prefix
+    // suffix
     expr = getRootSelection(LIKE[1]);
     evalCtx = expr.newContext();
     expr.eval(evalCtx, peopleSchema, tuples[0]);
@@ -714,7 +716,6 @@ public class TestEvalTree {
 
   private static void assertJsonSerDer(EvalNode expr) {
     String json = expr.toJson();
-    System.out.println(json);
     EvalNode fromJson = CoreGsonHelper.fromJson(json, EvalNode.class);
     assertEquals(expr, fromJson);
   }

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/ExprTestBase.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/ExprTestBase.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/ExprTestBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ba6ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/ExprTestBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.function;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.tajo.TajoTestingCluster;
+import org.apache.tajo.algebra.Expr;
+import org.apache.tajo.catalog.*;
+import org.apache.tajo.catalog.proto.CatalogProtos;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.NullDatum;
+import org.apache.tajo.datum.TextDatum;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.eval.EvalContext;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.eval.EvalNode;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.json.CoreGsonHelper;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.parser.SQLAnalyzer;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.LogicalPlan;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.LogicalPlanner;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.PlanningException;
+import org.apache.tajo.engine.planner.Target;
+import org.apache.tajo.master.TajoMaster;
+import org.apache.tajo.storage.LazyTuple;
+import org.apache.tajo.storage.Tuple;
+import org.apache.tajo.storage.VTuple;
+import org.apache.tajo.util.Bytes;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class ExprTestBase {
+  private static TajoTestingCluster util;
+  private static CatalogService cat;
+  private static SQLAnalyzer analyzer;
+  private static LogicalPlanner planner;
+
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void setUp() throws Exception {
+    util = new TajoTestingCluster();
+    util.startCatalogCluster();
+    cat = util.getMiniCatalogCluster().getCatalog();
+    for (FunctionDesc funcDesc : TajoMaster.initBuiltinFunctions()) {
+      cat.registerFunction(funcDesc);
+    }
+
+    analyzer = new SQLAnalyzer();
+    planner = new LogicalPlanner(cat);
+  }
+
+  @AfterClass
+  public static void tearDown() throws Exception {
+    util.shutdownCatalogCluster();
+  }
+
+  private static void assertJsonSerDer(EvalNode expr) {
+    String json = expr.toJson();
+    EvalNode fromJson = CoreGsonHelper.fromJson(json, EvalNode.class);
+    assertEquals(expr, fromJson);
+  }
+
+  private static Target[] getRawTargets(String query) throws PlanningException {
+    Expr expr = analyzer.parse(query);
+    LogicalPlan plan = planner.createPlan(expr);
+    Target [] targets = plan.getRootBlock().getTargetListManager().getUnresolvedTargets();
+    if (targets == null) {
+      throw new PlanningException("Wrong query statement or query plan: " + query);
+    }
+    for (Target t : targets) {
+      assertJsonSerDer(t.getEvalTree());
+    }
+    return targets;
+  }
+
+  public void testSimpleEval(String query, String [] expected) {
+    testEval(null, null, null, query, expected);
+  }
+
+  public void testEval(Schema schema, String tableName, String csvTuple, String query, String [] expected) {
+    LazyTuple lazyTuple;
+    VTuple vtuple  = null;
+    Schema inputSchema = null;
+    if (schema != null) {
+      inputSchema = (Schema) schema.clone();
+      inputSchema.setQualifier(tableName, true);
+
+      int targetIdx [] = new int[inputSchema.getColumnNum()];
+      for (int i = 0; i < targetIdx.length; i++) {
+        targetIdx[i] = i;
+      }
+
+      lazyTuple = new LazyTuple(inputSchema, Bytes.splitPreserveAllTokens(csvTuple.getBytes(), ',', targetIdx), 0);
+      vtuple = new VTuple(inputSchema.getColumnNum());
+      for (int i = 0; i < inputSchema.getColumnNum(); i++) {
+        // If null value occurs, null datum is manually inserted to an input tuple.
+        if (lazyTuple.get(i) instanceof TextDatum && lazyTuple.getText(i).asChars().equals("")) {
+          vtuple.put(i, NullDatum.get());
+        } else {
+          vtuple.put(i, lazyTuple.get(i));
+        }
+      }
+      cat.addTable(new TableDescImpl(tableName, inputSchema, CatalogProtos.StoreType.CSV, new Options(), new Path("/")));
+    }
+
+    Target [] targets = null;
+
+    try {
+      targets = getRawTargets(query);
+    } catch (PlanningException e) {
+      assertTrue("Wrong query statement: " + query, false);
+    }
+
+    EvalContext [] evalContexts = new EvalContext[targets.length];
+    Tuple outTuple = new VTuple(targets.length);
+    for (int i = 0; i < targets.length; i++) {
+      EvalNode eval = targets[i].getEvalTree();
+      evalContexts[i] = eval.newContext();
+      eval.eval(evalContexts[i], inputSchema, vtuple);
+      outTuple.put(i, eval.terminate(evalContexts[i]));
+    }
+
+    if (schema != null) {
+      cat.deleteTable(tableName);
+    }
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < expected.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(query, expected[i], outTuple.get(i).asChars());
+    }
+  }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/TestPatternMatchingPredicates.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/TestPatternMatchingPredicates.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/TestPatternMatchingPredicates.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b43795
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/function/TestPatternMatchingPredicates.java
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tajo.engine.function;
+
+import org.apache.tajo.catalog.Schema;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.apache.tajo.common.TajoDataTypes.Type.TEXT;
+
+public class TestPatternMatchingPredicates extends ExprTestBase {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testLike() {
+    Schema schema = new Schema();
+    schema.addColumn("col1", TEXT);
+
+    // test for null values
+    testEval(schema, "table1", ",", "select col1 like 'a%' from table1", new String[]{""});
+    testSimpleEval("select null like 'a%'", new String[]{""});
+
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like '%c' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like 'a%' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like '_bc' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like 'ab_' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like '_b_' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 like '%b%' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for escaping regular expressions
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '.bc' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '.*bc' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '.bc' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '*bc' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for case sensitive
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '%C' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like 'A%' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '_BC' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+    testEval(schema, "table1", "abc", "select col1 not like '_C_' from table1", new String[]{"t"});
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testILike() {
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '%c'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike 'a%'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '_bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike 'ab_'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '_b_'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '%b%'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for escaping regular expressions
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not like '.bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not like '.*bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not like '.bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not like '*bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for case insensitive
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '%C'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike 'A%'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '_BC'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ilike '_B_'", new String[]{"t"});
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSimilarToLike() {
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '%c'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to 'a%'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '_bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to 'ab_'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '_b_'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '%b%'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for now allowed
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not similar to '.bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not similar to 'ab.'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for escaping regular expressions
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '(a|f)b%'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '[a-z]b%'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to '_+bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' similar to 'abc'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // test for case sensitive
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not similar to '%C'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not similar to '_Bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testRegexWithSimilarOperator() {
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ~ '.*c'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ~ '.*c$'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'aaabc' ~ '([a-z]){3}bc'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // for negative condition
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' !~ '.*c$'", new String[]{"f"});
+
+    // for case sensitivity
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ~ '.*C'", new String[]{"f"});
+
+    // for case insensitivity
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' ~* '.*C'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' !~* '.*C'", new String[]{"f"});
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testRegexp() {
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' regexp '.*c'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' regexp '.*c$'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // for negative condition
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not regexp '.*c$'", new String[]{"f"});
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testRLike() {
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' rlike '.*c'", new String[]{"t"});
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' rlike '.*c$'", new String[]{"t"});
+
+    // for negative condition
+    testSimpleEval("select 'abc' not rlike '.*c$'", new String[]{"f"});
+  }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java
index e9a0c65..dbd3bde 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestInsertQuery.java
@@ -90,27 +90,31 @@ public class TestInsertQuery {
     ResultSet res = tpch.execute("select * from " + tableName);
     assertTrue(res.next());
     assertEquals(1, res.getLong(1));
-    assertEquals("null", res.getString(2));
+    assertTrue(0f == res.getFloat(2));
+    assertTrue(res.wasNull());
     assertTrue(17.0 == res.getFloat(3));
 
     assertTrue(res.next());
     assertEquals(1, res.getLong(1));
-    assertEquals("null", res.getString(2));
+    assertTrue(0f == res.getFloat(2));
+    assertTrue(res.wasNull());
     assertTrue(36.0 == res.getFloat(3));
 
     assertTrue(res.next());
     assertEquals(2, res.getLong(1));
-    assertEquals("null", res.getString(2));
+    assertTrue(0f == res.getFloat(2));
+    assertTrue(res.wasNull());
     assertTrue(38.0 == res.getFloat(3));
 
     assertTrue(res.next());
-    assertEquals(3, res.getLong(1));
-    assertEquals("null", res.getString(2));
+    assertTrue(0f == res.getFloat(2));
+    assertTrue(res.wasNull());
     assertTrue(45.0 == res.getFloat(3));
 
     assertTrue(res.next());
     assertEquals(3, res.getLong(1));
-    assertEquals("null", res.getString(2));
+    assertTrue(0f == res.getFloat(2));
+    assertTrue(res.wasNull());
     assertTrue(49.0 == res.getFloat(3));
 
     assertFalse(res.next());

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java
index df6eaa0..270f915 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-backend/src/test/java/org/apache/tajo/engine/query/TestSelectQuery.java
@@ -279,15 +279,15 @@ public class TestSelectQuery {
         "end as cond from region");
 
     try {
-      Map<Integer, String> result = Maps.newHashMap();
-      result.put(0, "null");
-      result.put(1, "11");
-      result.put(2, "12");
-      result.put(3, "13");
-      result.put(4, "14");
+      Map<Integer, Integer> result = Maps.newHashMap();
+      result.put(0, 0);
+      result.put(1, 11);
+      result.put(2, 12);
+      result.put(3, 13);
+      result.put(4, 14);
       int cnt = 0;
       while(res.next()) {
-        assertEquals(result.get(res.getInt(1)), res.getString(2));
+        assertTrue(result.get(res.getInt(1)) == res.getInt(2));
         cnt++;
       }
 

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tajo/blob/7b0dec6a/tajo-core/tajo-core-storage/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java
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diff --git a/tajo-core/tajo-core-storage/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java b/tajo-core/tajo-core-storage/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java
index c10fa50..c2b511c 100644
--- a/tajo-core/tajo-core-storage/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java
+++ b/tajo-core/tajo-core-storage/src/main/java/org/apache/tajo/storage/LazyTuple.java
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ public class LazyTuple implements Tuple {
     else if (textBytes.length > fieldId && (textBytes[fieldId] != null)) {
       values[fieldId] = createByTextBytes(schema.getColumn(fieldId).getDataType().getType(), textBytes[fieldId]);
       textBytes[fieldId] = null;
-    } else {
-      //values[fieldId] = NullDatum.get();
     }
     return values[fieldId];
   }