@Override
  public boolean evaluate(Tuple tuple, ImmutableBytesWritable ptr) {
    // Reset buffer so that it gets initialized with the current datatype of the column
    buffer = null;
    if (cachedResult == null) {
      columnExp = (ColumnExpression) exps.get(0);
      // Second exp will be a LiteralExpression of Boolean type indicating
      // whether the ordering to be ASC/DESC
      LiteralExpression isAscendingExpression = (LiteralExpression) exps.get(1);
      boolean isAscending = (Boolean) isAscendingExpression.getValue();

      // Third expression will be LiteralExpression
      LiteralExpression percentileExp = (LiteralExpression) exps.get(2);
      float p = ((Number) percentileExp.getValue()).floatValue();
      Map<Object, Integer> sorted = getSortedValueVsCount(isAscending, columnExp.getDataType());
      int currValue = 0;
      Object result = null;
      // Here the Percentile_disc returns the cum_dist() that is greater or equal to the
      // Percentile (p) specified in the query.  So the result set will be of that of the
      // datatype of the column being selected
      for (Entry<Object, Integer> entry : sorted.entrySet()) {
        result = entry.getKey();
        Integer value = entry.getValue();
        currValue += value;
        float cum_dist = (float) currValue / (float) totalCount;
        if (cum_dist >= p) {
          break;
        }
      }
      this.cachedResult = result;
    }
    if (buffer == null) {
      // Initialize based on the datatype
      // columnExp cannot be null
      buffer = new byte[columnExp.getDataType().getByteSize()];
    }
    // Copy the result to the buffer.
    System.arraycopy(
        columnExp.getDataType().toBytes(this.cachedResult), 0, buffer, 0, buffer.length);
    ptr.set(buffer);
    return true;
  }
 @Override
 protected PDataType getResultDataType() {
   return columnExp.getDataType();
 }