index: B+tree over the encoded keys (roadmap item 1)

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Replace Index.entries (one sorted array) with a B+tree so writes into an
already-built index stop being quadratic. Nodes are fixed 4 KiB slotted
pages in a flat u32-addressed ArrayListUnmanaged(Node); records longer
than a quarter page spill to an append-only overflow slab (BSON strings
reach 16 MB). Leaves are doubly linked for ordered iteration; the flat
node array stays one contiguous byte range for a later checkpoint.

Insertion descends by separator and splits leaves/internals upward,
promoting keys via a stable copy (a nested split can otherwise clobber
the promoted-key scratch). Deletion does not rebalance: emptied leaves
are unlinked and dropped from their parent, internal nodes may carry one
child, and dead pages are abandoned in place (node memory peaks at the
tree's peak size, exactly what the old array's capacity did). Lookups
are lower-bound seeks plus leaf-chain band scans, so equal keys may
span leaves freely. Bulk build (append_doc_entries + finish_bulk) sorts
a staging array and packs leaves bottom-up. reserve_for now takes the
built entries and reserves exact overflow bytes plus a worst-case node
count, keeping insert_entries infallible after the log append.

db.zig: TTL sweep now seeks the minimum-datetime encoded key and walks
the contiguous datetime band, stopping at the cutoff or type change.

Measured (tests/e2e/results/phase2.txt): updateMany 17.3 -> 1.8 ms
(2.8x slower than MongoDB -> 3.7x faster), createIndex 62 -> 51 ms.

Verified: unit suite ReleaseFast/ReleaseSafe/Debug (incl. the existing
lookup_range and remove_doc differentials, plus a new incremental
insert/remove differential against a brute-force model), the crash pair,
e2e3/e2e4/e2e6, and dev stress tests for depth-2 splits, full drains,
and spilled records through internal levels.

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Alexey Shakhmatov

2026-08-02 21:10:25 +03:00

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