This commit introduces two utility functions meant to make working with
vectors simpler.
Vec_ToText converts a binary vector into a json array of numbers
(floats).
Vec_FromText takes in a json array of numbers and converts it into a
little-endian IEEE float sequence of bytes (4 bytes per float).
* 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.
