1. introduce alpha. the value of 1.1 is optimal, so hard-code it.
2. hard-code ef_construction=10, best by test
3. rename hnsw_max_connection_per_layer to mhnsw_max_edges_per_node
(max_connection is rather ambiguous in MariaDB) and add a help text
4. rename hnsw_ef_search to mhnsw_min_limit and add a help text
* mhnsw:
* use primary key, innodb loves and (and the index cannot have dupes anyway)
* MyISAM is ok with that, performance-wise
* must be ha_rnd_init(0) because we aren't going to scan
* MyISAM resets the position on ha_rnd_init(0) so query it before
* oh, and use the correct handler, just in case
* HA_ERR_RECORD_IS_THE_SAME is no error
* innodb:
* return ref_length on create
* don't assume table->pos_in_table_list is set
* ok, assume away, but only for system versioned tables
* set alter_info on create (InnoDB needs to check for FKs)
* pair external_lock/external_unlock correctly
Now there's an FVector class which is a pure vector, an array of floats.
It doesn't necessarily corresponds to a row in the table, and usually
there is only one FVector instance - the one we're searching for.
And there's an FVectorNode class, which is a node in the graph.
It has a ref (identifying a row in the source table), possibly an array
of floats (or not — in which case it will be read lazily from the
source table as needed). There are many FVectorNodes and they're
cached to avoid re-reading them from the disk.
instead of pointers to FVectorRef's (which are stored elsewhere)
let's return one big array of all refs. Freeing this array will
free the complete result set.
* sysvars should be REQUIRED_ARG
* fix a mix of US and UK spelling (use US)
* use consistent naming
* work if VEC_DISTANCE arguments are in the swapped order (const, col)
* work if VEC_DISTANCE argument is NULL/invalid or wrong length
* abort INSERT if the value is invalid or wrong length
* store the "number of neighbors" in a blob in endianness-independent way
* use field->store(longlong, bool) not field->store(double)
* a lot more error checking everywhere
* cleanup after errors
* simplify calling conventions, remove reinterpret_cast's
* todo/XXX comments
* whitespaces
* use float consistently
memory management is still totally PoC quality
This commit includes the work done in collaboration with Hugo Wen from
Amazon:
MDEV-33408 Alter HNSW graph storage and fix memory leak
This commit changes the way HNSW graph information is stored in the
second table. Instead of storing connections as separate records, it now
stores neighbors for each node, leading to significant performance
improvements and storage savings.
Comparing with the previous approach, the insert speed is 5 times faster,
search speed improves by 23%, and storage usage is reduced by 73%, based
on ann-benchmark tests with random-xs-20-euclidean and
random-s-100-euclidean datasets.
Additionally, in previous code, vector objects were not released after
use, resulting in excessive memory consumption (over 20GB for building
the index with 90,000 records), preventing tests with large datasets.
Now ensure that vectors are released appropriately during the insert and
search functions. Note there are still some vectors that need to be
cleaned up after search query completion. Needs to be addressed in a
future commit.
All new code of the whole pull request, including one or several files
that are either new files or modified ones, are contributed under the
BSD-new license. I am contributing on behalf of my employer Amazon Web
Services, Inc.
As well as the commit:
Introduce session variables to manage HNSW index parameters
Three variables:
hnsw_max_connection_per_layer
hnsw_ef_constructor
hnsw_ef_search
ann-benchmark tool is also updated to support these variables in commit
https://github.com/HugoWenTD/ann-benchmarks/commit/e09784e for branch
https://github.com/HugoWenTD/ann-benchmarks/tree/mariadb-configurable
All new code of the whole pull request, including one or several files
that are either new files or modified ones, are contributed under the
BSD-new license. I am contributing on behalf of my employer Amazon Web
Services, Inc.
Co-authored-by: Hugo Wen <wenhug@amazon.com>
MDEV-33407 Parser support for vector indexes
The syntax is
create table t1 (... vector index (v) ...);
limitation:
* v is a binary string and NOT NULL
* only one vector index per table
* temporary tables are not supported
MDEV-33404 Engine-independent indexes: subtable method
added support for so-called "high level indexes", they are not visible
to the storage engine, implemented on the sql level. For every such
an index in a table, say, t1, the server implicitly creates a second
table named, like, t1#i#05 (where "05" is the index number in t1).
This table has a fixed structure, no frm, not accessible directly,
doesn't go into the table cache, needs no MDLs.
MDEV-33406 basic optimizer support for k-NN searches
for a query like SELECT ... ORDER BY func() optimizer will use
item_func->part_of_sortkey() to decide what keys can be used
to resolve ORDER BY.
let the caller tell init_tmp_table_share() whether the table
should be thread_specific or not.
In particular, internal tmp tables created in the slave thread
are perfectly thread specific
create templates
thd->alloc<X>(n) to use instead of (X*)thd->alloc(sizeof(X)*n)
and the same for thd->calloc(). By the default the type is char,
so old usage of thd->alloc(size) works too.
This partially reverts 43623f04a9
Engines have to set ::position() after ::write_row(), otherwise
the server won't be able to refer to the row just inserted.
This is important for high-level indexes.
heap part isn't reverted, so heap doesn't support high-level indexes.
to fix this, it'll need info->lastpos in addition to info->current_ptr
the information about index algorithm was stored in two
places inconsistently split between both.
BTREE index could have key->algorithm == HA_KEY_ALG_BTREE, if the user
explicitly specified USING BTREE or HA_KEY_ALG_UNDEF, if not.
RTREE index had key->algorithm == HA_KEY_ALG_RTREE
and always had key->flags & HA_SPATIAL
FULLTEXT index had key->algorithm == HA_KEY_ALG_FULLTEXT
and always had key->flags & HA_FULLTEXT
HASH index had key->algorithm == HA_KEY_ALG_HASH or HA_KEY_ALG_UNDEF
long unique index always had key->algorithm == HA_KEY_ALG_LONG_HASH
In this commit:
All indexes except BTREE and HASH always have key->algorithm
set, HA_SPATIAL and HA_FULLTEXT flags are not used anymore (except
for storage to keep frms backward compatible).
As a side effect ALTER TABLE now detects FULLTEXT index renames correctly
Bounded_queue<> pretended to be a typesafe C++ wrapper
on top of pure C queues.h.
But it wasn't, it was tightly bounded to filesort and only useful there.
* implement Queue<> - a typesafe C++ wrapper on top of QUEUE
* move Bounded_queue to filesort.cc, remove pointless "generalizations"
change it to use Queue.
* remove bounded_queue.h
* change subselect_rowid_merge_engine to use Queue, not QUEUE
savepoint support was added a year ago as get_last_memroot_block()
and free_all_new_blocks(), but it didn't work and was disabled.
* fix it to work
* instead of freeing the memory, only mark blocks free - this feature
is supposed to be used inside a loop (otherwise there is no need
to free anything, end of statement will do it anyway). And freeing
blocks inside a loop is a bad idea, as they'll be all malloc-ed
on the next iteration again. So, don't.
* fix a bug in mark_blocks_free() - it doesn't change the number of blocks
