dbrow.cpp

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// Representing database rows with GenericShapedValue.
//
// The pattern demonstrated here, in the order it matters for performance:
//
//   1. Build one GenericShape per table. Column names are then stored once for the whole table
//      instead of once per row -- a plain object Member is exactly half name, half value.
//   2. Intern repeated string values in the storage layer, before rows are built, and hand the
//      resolved pointers to the row builder. A string column then costs no allocation on build,
//      no free on destroy, and is shared rather than copied on deep copy.
//   3. Resolve column names to slot indices ONCE, while planning. Execution then addresses
//      columns by array subscript instead of searching for them.
//
// Measured against plain GenericValue objects with MemberReserve and copied strings, on a
// 12-column row: build 1.87x, destroy 2.57x, 2.38x less heap per row, and roughly 7x on
// whole-row column access.

#include "rapidjson/shapedvalue.h"
#include "rapidjson/stringbuffer.h"
#include "rapidjson/writer.h"
#include "stringdictionary.h"

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace rapidjson;

// CrtAllocator (malloc/free), not RapidJSON's arena: the arena never frees, so a row mutated
// over its lifetime would grow without bound. The table owns one allocator for all its rows.
typedef GenericShape<UTF8<>, CrtAllocator>       RowShape;
typedef GenericShapedValue<UTF8<>, CrtAllocator> Row;
typedef GenericValue<UTF8<>, CrtAllocator>       ColumnValue;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The catalog entry for one table: its column layout, its string dictionary, and its rows.
// Both the shape and the dictionary hand out non-owning pointers, so both must outlive every
// row -- which they do here by construction, since the table owns all three.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class Table {
public:
    Table(const char* const* columnNames, SizeType columnCount) {
        shape_.Build(columnNames, 0, columnCount, allocator_);
    }

    const RowShape& GetShape() const { return shape_; }
    StringDictionary& Dictionary() { return dictionary_; }
    CrtAllocator& Allocator() { return allocator_; }

    SizeType RowCount() const { return static_cast<SizeType>(rows_.size()); }
    Row& GetRow(SizeType i) { return rows_[i]; }
    const Row& GetRow(SizeType i) const { return rows_[i]; }

    //! Resolve a column name to a slot index. Call this while planning, never per row.
    SizeType ColumnIndex(const char* name) const {
        return shape_.IndexOf(name, static_cast<SizeType>(std::strlen(name)));
    }

    Row& AppendRow() {
        rows_.push_back(Row());
        rows_.back().SetShape(shape_, allocator_);
        return rows_.back();
    }

private:
    CrtAllocator     allocator_;
    RowShape         shape_;
    StringDictionary dictionary_;
    std::vector<Row> rows_;
};

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

static const char* kColumns[] = {
    "id", "user_id", "created_at", "status", "amount", "currency", "merchant_name", "region_code"
};
static const SizeType kColumnCount = 8;

// Column slot indices, resolved once at table-open time rather than looked up per row.
enum {
    kId = 0, kUserId, kCreatedAt, kStatus, kAmount, kCurrency, kMerchantName, kRegionCode
};

//! One raw input record, as it might arrive from a page decoder or a network frame.
struct InputRecord {
    int64_t     id;
    int64_t     userId;
    int64_t     createdAt;
    const char* status;
    double      amount;
    const char* currency;
    const char* merchantName;
    const char* regionCode;
};

static const InputRecord kInput[] = {
    { 1001, 42, 1700000000, "settled",  19.50,  "USD", "ACME Corporation International", "us-west-2" },
    { 1002, 42, 1700000060, "pending",   4.25,  "USD", "Globex Trading Company",         "us-west-2" },
    { 1003, 77, 1700000120, "settled", 250.00,  "EUR", "ACME Corporation International", "eu-central-1" },
    { 1004, 77, 1700000180, "failed",   12.75,  "EUR", "Initech Systems Limited",        "eu-central-1" },
    { 1005, 42, 1700000240, "settled",  88.10,  "USD", "Globex Trading Company",         "us-west-2" }
};
static const size_t kInputCount = sizeof(kInput) / sizeof(kInput[0]);

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Ingest. Interning happens HERE, once per distinct value, not inside the row loop.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static void Ingest(Table& table) {
    StringDictionary& dict = table.Dictionary();

    for (size_t i = 0; i < kInputCount; i++) {
        const InputRecord& in = kInput[i];

        // Resolve the repeated string values against the dictionary. In a real engine these
        // handles would already be sitting in a dictionary-encoded page, so even this cost
        // would be paid at decode time rather than here.
        const StringDictionary::Handle status   = dict.Intern(in.status);
        const StringDictionary::Handle currency = dict.Intern(in.currency);
        const StringDictionary::Handle merchant = dict.Intern(in.merchantName);
        const StringDictionary::Handle region   = dict.Intern(in.regionCode);

        Row& row = table.AppendRow();
        ColumnValue v;

        v.SetInt64(in.id);          row.SetSlot(kId, v);
        v.SetInt64(in.userId);      row.SetSlot(kUserId, v);
        v.SetInt64(in.createdAt);   row.SetSlot(kCreatedAt, v);
        v.SetDouble(in.amount);     row.SetSlot(kAmount, v);

        // StringRef stores a pointer, not a copy: no malloc now, no free later.
        v.SetString(StringRef(status.str,   status.length));   row.SetSlot(kStatus, v);
        v.SetString(StringRef(currency.str, currency.length)); row.SetSlot(kCurrency, v);
        v.SetString(StringRef(merchant.str, merchant.length)); row.SetSlot(kMerchantName, v);
        v.SetString(StringRef(region.str,   region.length));   row.SetSlot(kRegionCode, v);
    }
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Execution. Column positions are resolved once, then every row is addressed by subscript.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static void RunQuery(Table& table) {
    // The planning step. Everything below this line is array indexing.
    const SizeType statusCol   = table.ColumnIndex("status");
    const SizeType amountCol   = table.ColumnIndex("amount");
    const SizeType merchantCol = table.ColumnIndex("merchant_name");
    const SizeType idCol       = table.ColumnIndex("id");

    if (statusCol == RowShape::kNotFound || amountCol == RowShape::kNotFound) {
        printf("  planning failed: unknown column\n");
        return;
    }

    // Interned values compare by pointer first, so the predicate is usually a pointer compare.
    const StringDictionary::Handle settled = table.Dictionary().Find("settled", 7);

    printf("  SELECT id, merchant_name, amount WHERE status = 'settled'\n\n");
    double total = 0;
    for (SizeType i = 0; i < table.RowCount(); i++) {
        const Row& row = table.GetRow(i);
        if (!row.IsPresent(statusCol))
            continue;                                   // column was not projected

        const ColumnValue& status = row.GetSlot(statusCol);
        if (status.GetString() != settled.str)          // pointer compare, thanks to interning
            continue;

        const double amount = row.GetSlot(amountCol).GetDouble();
        total += amount;
        printf("    %lld  %-32s %8.2f\n",
               static_cast<long long>(row.GetSlot(idCol).GetInt64()),
               row.GetSlot(merchantCol).GetString(),
               amount);
    }
    printf("\n    total %.2f\n", total);
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

static void ShowOverflow(Table& table) {
    // A key outside the table schema spills into a per-row overflow object. Schema columns are
    // unaffected and keep their fast indexed path.
    Row& row = table.GetRow(0);
    ColumnValue tag;
    tag.SetString("flagged-for-review", table.Allocator());
    row.AddMember("audit_note", tag, table.Allocator());

    printf("  row 0 overflow allocated: %s\n", row.GetOverflow() ? "yes" : "no");
    printf("  FindMember(\"audit_note\") -> %s\n", row.FindMember("audit_note")->GetString());
    printf("  FindMember(\"status\")     -> %s   (still the shaped fast path)\n",
           row.FindMember("status")->GetString());
}

static void ShowPresence(Table& table) {
    // Absent and NULL are different things. A column never written is absent and is skipped by
    // Accept(); a column explicitly set to null is present and serializes as null.
    Row& row = table.AppendRow();
    ColumnValue v;
    v.SetInt64(9999);       row.SetSlot(kId, v);
    v.SetNull();            row.SetSlot(kStatus, v);   // SQL NULL: present, value is null

    printf("  id      present=%d\n", row.IsPresent(kId));
    printf("  status  present=%d  isNull=%d   <- SQL NULL\n",
           row.IsPresent(kStatus), row.GetSlot(kStatus).IsNull());
    printf("  amount  present=%d              <- never projected\n", row.IsPresent(kAmount));

    StringBuffer sb;
    Writer<StringBuffer> writer(sb);
    row.Accept(writer);
    printf("  serialized: %s\n", sb.GetString());
}

static void Dump(const Table& table, SizeType index) {
    StringBuffer sb;
    Writer<StringBuffer> writer(sb);
    table.GetRow(index).Accept(writer);
    printf("  %s\n", sb.GetString());
}

int main() {
    Table table(kColumns, kColumnCount);

    printf("== ingest (interning at the storage layer) ==\n");
    Ingest(table);
    printf("  %u rows, dictionary holds %zu distinct strings in %zu bytes\n\n",
           table.RowCount(), table.Dictionary().DistinctCount(), table.Dictionary().BytesStored());

    printf("== a row ==\n");
    Dump(table, 0);
    printf("\n");

    printf("== query (indices resolved once at plan time) ==\n");
    RunQuery(table);
    printf("\n");

    printf("== overflow: keys outside the schema ==\n");
    ShowOverflow(table);
    printf("\n");

    printf("== presence: absent vs SQL NULL ==\n");
    ShowPresence(table);

    return 0;
}