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2e7f72074f index: the node arena and overflow slab live in the data file
The last structures move onto the pager, so the whole engine's storage is now
one mapped file plus the WAL.

Node ids are deliberately *not* page numbers. PLAN amendment A1 explains why:
`Node.parent`, `next`, `prev` and an internal slot's `extra` are back-pointers
by id, so copy-on-write moving a page would force every node referring to it to
move as well -- COWing one leaf cascades through the leaf level, one internal
node through its whole subtree. An in-RAM id->page table makes the table slot
the single owner of a page number, so COW has exactly one pointer to fix. It
costs one dependent load per node access and 4 bytes per node, about 5.6 MB at
100M documents, against the 64-100 bytes *per document* this milestone removes.

The overflow slab becomes extents too, so `Slot.off` for a spilled record is an
absolute file offset -- the same change documents went through.

--

Two bugs, both found by measuring rather than by reading, and both worth
recording because the second one would have been invisible until the churn gate.

The reservation was a tail mark, and it cannot be: an upsert reserves tree pages
for every index *and* slab room for the document, all before one log append. The
second reserver overwrote the first one's promise and the first one's allocation
then asserted. Caught on a 512 MB load by the tripwire added in the
`reserve_for` commit, which is the entire reason that assert exists. It is a
count now, and the multi-consumer ordering is pinned by a test.

And a reservation was never released. It is scoped to one write -- taken before
the log append so the publish cannot fail -- but a tree reservation covers the
worst case of several splits while a typical insert causes none, so the promise
accumulated by a handful of pages per write and dragged the file up with it. The
data file was **1.89 GB for 512 MB of documents**; releasing the unclaimed
promise at the end of each write brings it to 551 MB, or 1.08x, which is the
extent slack and the node pages.

--

Measured on one harness, 512 MB / 16 KB docs, against the in-RAM engine this
replaces:

  bulk insert throughput      742.6 MB/s -> 736.4 MB/s
  insertOne (sequential)      0.20 ms    -> 0.22 ms
  createIndex({k: 1})         26.8 ms    -> 16.5 ms
  countDocuments({})          2.1 ms     -> 1.1 ms
  findOne({k: 500}) indexed   0.75 ms    -> 0.56 ms
  find({p: range}).count()    6.6 ms     -> 4.6 ms
  aggregate $group by k       5.8 ms     -> 3.8 ms
  updateMany({k: 7}, {$inc})  1.2 ms     -> 1.0 ms

Reads gain from one contiguous mapping; the two write rows are within noise of
flat. RSS is still unchanged and still cannot improve, for the reason given in
the previous commit: every open replays the whole log and rebuilds everything.

The dev harnesses each open their own data file now. `zig build fuzz` caught all
four of them, again.
2026-08-03 20:55:48 +03:00
9390021b1e index/commands: stream whole-index scans; add a reverse leaf iterator
A whole-index read used to materialize every candidate before the caller saw
the first one. At the tens-of-GB target that is a list of every offset in the
collection -- ~160 MB for a countDocuments({}) over 20 million documents --
which defeats the point of moving storage to disk. Cursors are M1, but
*streaming a scan* has to exist now.

`Candidates` is the one loop candidates arrive through, whatever produced them:
a plan's materialized lookups, or the index read end to end. That keeps this
file's governing invariant -- an index only generates candidates, the full
filter is re-applied to every one -- in a single place. A narrowed plan still
materializes, because its multikey/$in dedupe genuinely needs the whole set and
is bounded by selectivity.

`RevIter` walks `Node.prev`, which has always been maintained and which nothing
had ever read: a descending scan materialized the whole index and reversed the
list. `find({}).sort({_id:-1}).limit(20)` becomes O(20).

The unfiltered fallback now walks the _id_ index instead of the docs map. That
is ordered rather than hash-ordered, and it does not depend on a structure that
is about to be deleted.

`Plan.full_scan()` refuses multikey indexes, since one document contributes
several entries there and a stream cannot dedupe what `search` did. The check is
currently redundant -- the planner refuses to order a multikey index anyway --
and is kept because the two guards protect different things. Stated precisely
in both places after checking: the commands.zig test reddens only when *both*
guards are removed, which is what that test actually pins.

--

This also broke e2e6's compaction check, and the fix there is the more
interesting half.

The check required peak/final > 1.4 and got 1.28. The final size was identical
to the byte (2,398,065 vs 2,398,064) -- compaction reclaimed exactly as before
-- and only the peak moved. Isolated to one variable: changing just the order
updateMany({}) walks its matches moves peak/final between 1.65 and 1.28, because
compaction can also fire from the once-per-second TTL monitor and whether one
lands inside the batch shifts the peak a long way while leaving the outcome
unchanged. The threshold was measuring the schedule.

Replaced with `peak > final`, which measures the shape instead: an append-only
log grows monotonically, so its maximum *is* its final size, and a file that
was ever larger than it ended can only have been rewritten.

Worth recording why the obvious alternative does not work. An absolute size
bound cannot distinguish a working compactor here: the payload is one repeated
character, so ~48 MB of records LZ4-compress to ~3 MB whether or not anything is
reclaimed -- with compaction disabled entirely the file still ends at 3.1 MB. I
first wrote the comment claiming that bound was the strong one, then measured it
and found the opposite; `peak > final` is what goes red.
2026-08-03 20:05:38 +03:00
491a4d0a6a index: a leaf record's payload becomes the document's slab offset
PLAN amendment A3. The B+tree leaf had nowhere to put a document's slab
offset -- `Slot.extra` is the payload length for a leaf and the child node id
for an internal separator -- which is what blocks the `_id_` tree from becoming
the primary lookup once the docs hashmap goes away.

A leaf record is now `key ++ offset_le`, so `extra` is always 8 and every
byte-accounting site (fits, record_cost, slot_cost, balanced_cut,
repack_keep_prefix) is untouched. Records get *smaller*: an ObjectId `_id_`
record goes from 26 bytes to 21.

`Entry.id` is deleted rather than re-owned. Every entry one document
contributes shares one document, so which document it is belongs on the call
that commits the entries -- which also makes it impossible to confuse the
offset a replace is removing with the one it is inserting. The old field
aliased the docs map's key and was only safe because removal happened at the
one chokepoint where a document dies; that constraint is gone.

Done for secondary indexes too, not just `_id_`. That deletes the per-candidate
`coll.docs.get(id)` in scan_sorted outright rather than replacing it with an
`_id_` descent, and it is free on the write path because a replace already
removes and reinserts every entry in every index.

Consequences worth knowing:

- lookup_eq/lookup_range/Plan.search yield u64. Those are values, immune to the
  tree mutation that invalidated the id slices they used to hand back -- which
  is why ttl_sweep_coll can drop the dupe-and-free dance it needed to survive
  `remove` freeing the key its entries pointed at.
- One safety net is gone. A stale entry used to be swallowed by
  `docs.get(id) orelse continue`; now it resolves to superseded-but-parseable
  bytes the re-applied filter might accept. That trades an invisible
  under-approximation for a visible wrong answer, which is the better failure
  to have, but it is a trade.
- A checkpoint may never renumber slab offsets (already recorded in PLAN §4):
  every index leaf now holds a physical one.

`zig build fuzz` earned its keep immediately -- it caught the API break in all
four B+tree harnesses, which `zig build test` cannot see.

Benchmarks A/B'd at 256m on one harness, before and after: all rows flat.
updateMany and deleteOne+insertOne first looked 10-13% slower, which three
repeat runs showed to be single-sample noise (0.70/0.71/0.70 against 0.70).
2026-08-03 19:23:17 +03:00
aee23cb028 index/db: enforce _id uniqueness through the _id_ index
_id uniqueness was a `coll.docs.contains` probe. The docs hashmap is going
away (PLAN A3), so it has to move to the _id_ tree -- and the tree answers
better, because it is keyed on bson.encode_key, which is canonical where
serialize_value is not. int32 1, int64 1 and double 1.0 are now one _id, as
they are in MongoDB (A4).

_id_ is built and checked first, so a write violating both it and a unique
secondary reports _id_, which is what MongoDB reports. It returns
error.DuplicateKey with `dup_index` left null, which is exactly what
commands.zig's E11000 rendering already treats as "the _id_ index", so the
wire-visible message is unchanged and that file needed no edit.

check_unique's exclude-self became optional and is null on an insert. That was
a latent bug of its own: a replace must ignore its own existing entries, but an
insert has none, and passing the document's id there hides a collision whose
entry carries that same id -- precisely the case _id_ exists to catch. Only
_id_ could reach it, since a secondary collision is between different
documents.

Two corrections found while doing this, both worth reading:

PLAN A4 claimed a database already holding {_id: int32 1} and {_id: int64 1}
loses one on reopen. It does not. Replay evicts through the docs map, keyed on
serialize_value, so both survive; the tree is bulk-built afterwards with
enforcement off, which tolerates duplicate keys and warns. The loss arrives
only with the commit that drops the map, and that is where it needs a
pre-flight scan. Amended.

dispatch_insert asserted only `ok: 1`, but a rejected document comes back as a
writeError alongside it -- so the mixed-type corpus silently shrank from ten
documents to nine when _id_ became unique, and every test over it still passed.
The helper now rejects writeErrors and asserts the inserted count; it caught
the shrink immediately. The corpus keeps an int64 _id on a distinct value, and
the collision it used to stand in for is asserted directly.

Also adds Index.lookup_exact, which the commands that currently probe the docs
map will need. Exact byte equality rather than cmp_prefix, because {a: 1}'s
encoding is a proper prefix of {a: 1, b: 2}'s and a prefix match would claim a
document is present when it is not.

Mutation-checked, all three red: unique=false on id_index; exclude=id_key on
insert; eql -> cmp_prefix in lookup_exact.
2026-08-03 18:15:21 +03:00
f61416f44a index/db: heap-allocate secondary indexes
Collection.indexes held Index by value, so orderedRemove memmoved the whole
~5 KB struct and every *Index already handed out referred to a different index
afterwards -- a query plan's `index` field, or a slice into an index's
promoted-key buffer. The collection's own bookkeeping stayed consistent, which
is why nothing noticed: only a caller holding a pointer across a drop could
see it, and no test did.

The new test does, and it is mutation-checked against the by-value code that
this commit replaces: holding pointers to b_1 and c_1, then dropping a_1, the
b_1 pointer reads "c_1". Now orderedRemove moves 8-byte pointers, the
surviving indexes do not move, and only the removed one is freed.

M0 needs this independently: an Index will own a file mapping once the node
arena moves into the data file, and copying one by value would duplicate that
ownership.

Not done, though the milestone plan listed it: moving Index's inline scratch
and promo buffers out of the struct. Their stated purpose was to keep those
5 KB out of a file-resident Index and to stop the memmove -- but only the node
arena and overflow slab become file-resident, not the Index metadata, and
boxing already fixed the memmove. Moving them would be churn with nothing left
to buy.
2026-08-03 17:21:33 +03:00
06504127fb index: route arena access through accessors; tighten reserve_for's bound
Groundwork for M0: the node arena and overflow slab are about to move into an
mmap'd data file where a write to a page belonging to the last durable
checkpoint has to copy that page first (PLAN amendment A1). Two changes make
that a small commit rather than a sixty-site one, plus the reformat of this
file (see the preceding style commit for why it rides along here).

Accessors. Every read of a node page now goes through page(), every write
through page_mut(), and every overflow read through ovf(); nothing else touches
nodes.items or overflow.items. Which of the 55 sites mutate was decided by the
compiler rather than by inspection -- page() returns *const Node, so every
mutating site failed to compile until flipped -- and the result is that the
copy-on-write hook has exactly one home. Records the rule COW will impose
(never hold a *Node across a page_mut of the same id) and the audit showing
today's callers already comply.

Comptime layout asserts. These structures are about to become an on-disk
format, and nothing pinned them. Pinning also surfaced that @sizeOf(Slot) is
32, not the 20 its 160 declared bits suggest -- the backing integer's 16-byte
alignment rounds it up, so 12 of every 32 slot bytes are padding and a node
holds 127 slots where 203 would fit. Pinned, deliberately not fixed: narrowing
the slot changes the fanout and so the on-disk shape of every index, which
belongs in the commit that reshapes leaf records.

reserve_for. The old bound stood in for "levels a batch can add" with n/8,
which is ~125 levels for a 1000-entry batch and demands ~528 MiB of headroom.
Growing by g levels needs at least 2^g entries, so log2_ceil(n+1)+1 bounds it,
giving ~70 MiB for that batch. Harmless as ArrayList capacity; real file growth
once the arena is file-backed. Overrunning the reservation is a buffer overrun
on a path that has already appended to the log and cannot report failure, so
alloc_node and store_record now assert, using assert.zig so the checks survive
ReleaseFast. Mutation-checked by dropping the reservation entirely: six tests
go red with the new message. Worth noting the assert guards the allocation, not
the arithmetic -- ensureUnusedCapacity over-allocates, so a slightly-too-small
bound is masked until the reservation becomes exact.

build.zig gains a `fuzz` step. spill, spill2, stress and fuzz_split were in no
build step and are not in lib.zig's test block, so `zig build test` could not
see an API break in the only coverage for records past the inline limit and for
randomized split/remove interleavings -- exactly what this work puts at risk.
2026-08-03 17:09:03 +03:00
ecd28d9b26 engine: decompose the global lock; cross-connection group commit (roadmap item 5)
The single engine-wide reader/writer lock is replaced by a lock hierarchy,
so writes to different collections no longer serialize on one mutex:

- Collections are heap-allocated, so their addresses are stable while a
  command holds a collection lock (the maps only store pointers).
- A catalog rwlock guards the database/collection maps: shared for every
  command (so a concurrent DDL cannot mutate the maps underneath it),
  exclusive for create/drop/dropDatabase. Each collection has its own
  rwlock; the ordering is always catalog -> collection -> log lock, never
  two collection locks at once (TTL sweep and compaction take collections
  one at a time).
- Command dispatch acquires the catalog + target collection locks for the
  handler's duration, resolving the collection (creating it for writes)
  under the catalog lock; create/drop upgrade to the exclusive catalog lock.
- Appends never fsync. Each write command's epilogue releases the
  collection lock, then commits once (seal + fsync) with a leader/follower
  group commit: the leader waits for writers mid-append (a pending counter)
  so its seal covers them, and followers whose records the seal covered
  skip their own fsync. Every acknowledged write is fsynced before its
  reply (crash pair verified); an unacknowledged write may vanish and a
  reader may observe a write before its fsync — ordinary w:1 j:true
  semantics instead of 'the log describes >= memory'.
- Compaction snapshots collections without the log lock (so a concurrent
  writer holding one can always finish its append) and retries when a
  writer appended mid-snapshot (detected via the record seq), then swaps
  under the log lock — no deadlock. The compaction trigger moved to the
  command epilogue and the TTL monitor.
- Engine.dup_index moved to the collection (per-command error paths).

Also lands two B-tree edge-case fixes driven by tests that were in flight:
a churned leaf full of dead bytes no longer splits with an empty right
half (the leaf is repacked before splitting, and an emptied node's page is
fully free again), and a slot-count split with all large records on one
side shifts records between the halves until the new record fits. Plus a
randomised fuzz test over key sizes (src/fuzz_split.zig) and the two
regression tests.

Measured (tests/e2e/results/phase6.txt): no regression on the
single-connection benchmark; concurrent durable-insert throughput ~5.1k ->
12.5k docs/s from 1 -> 8 clients, ~14.8k at 32. Verified: unit suite in
all three modes, all e2e suites, the kill -9 crash pair.
2026-08-02 23:26:24 +03:00
570900a6ef storage: byte documents in a per-collection slab (roadmap item 4)
Documents live as canonical BSON bytes in a segmented per-collection slab
(fixed 8 MiB segments keep capacity slack under one segment); the docs map
holds flat offsets that stay valid across segment growth, and removed
documents leave garbage bytes until compaction rewrites. The per-document
ArenaAllocator and its second full Pair-tree copy are gone.

The matcher walks the stored bytes directly, skipping by length any field
the filter does not name (a new bson byte-walker: element_key, skip_value,
read_value with borrowed leaves, get_at, and a borrowed spine parse). The
byte matcher is differential-tested against the tree matcher on a corpus
and shares its operator logic. Stored documents are never materialized on
the scan path or in aggregate $match; $group reads group keys and sums
straight off the bytes. Sort, projection, findAndModify, updates and
index entry generation use a borrowed spine into the slab (or the byte
collector, which also replaced collect_values in build_entries). The
compaction threshold now counts uncompressed data volume, since a
compressed log would otherwise never trigger.

Measured (tests/e2e/results/phase5.txt): server RSS 1979 -> 539 MB (2.4x
smaller than MongoDB; phase1 baseline 2.0 GB), range-scan 22.5 -> ~12 ms
(parity, best run faster than MongoDB), proj 4.1 -> 3.4 ms, createIndex
parity. Verified: unit suite in all three modes with zero leaks, the
crash pair, e2e6, and the stress/spill programs.
2026-08-02 22:15:07 +03:00
58914a69c3 index: ordered _id index (roadmap item 2)
Give every Collection an implicit _id_ index (a normal Index with keys
[_id: 1]) so _id equality, $in, ranges and sorts stop depending on the
docs-map hash or a full scan. Kept out of the secondary indexes list, so
listIndexes/dropIndexes/createIndex and the log format are unchanged (no
index_create record, no double listing) and e2e3.js passes unmodified.

Maintained in upsert through the same reserve-then-insert protocol as
the secondaries, removed in evict_doc, and rebuilt after replay by
build_all_indexes alongside them (never maintained mid-replay, so a
failed add can't leave the index under-approximating). index.plan now
takes it as a separate argument. Its keys are canonical
(bson.encode_key gives int32 1, int64 1 and double 1.0 identical bytes),
so the serialization-guarded docs-map fast path (plan_id,
value_fast_path_safe and friends) is deleted.

Measured (tests/e2e/results/phase3.txt): sort({_id:-1}).limit(20) 6.2 ->
2.4 ms (2.3x slower than MongoDB -> parity); integer/string _id point
lookups, $in and ranges verified against the tree. Unit suite in all
three optimize modes, the crash pair, e2e3/e2e4/e2e6.
2026-08-02 21:18:40 +03:00
61fe952125 index: B+tree over the encoded keys (roadmap item 1)
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.
2026-08-02 21:10:25 +03:00
4aaa555563 index/commands: let an index supply the sort order
A sort ordered every match before discarding all but one page, even when
an index already held the candidates in exactly that order. The planner
now recognizes that case and the scan streams the page straight out.

An index provides the sort when the sort keys line up with the components
after the equality-pinned prefix (those are fixed to one value each, so
they do not affect the order of what follows) and every direction agrees
uniformly -- all the same way round, or all opposite, since the array can
only be read forwards or backwards. Multikey indexes are excluded: they
emit a document once per indexed value, so their order is not an order on
documents. So is an $in, whose disjoint ranges concatenate unordered.

Entries already come out of the array in key order, so forward scans were
sorted all along; what destroyed it was the dedupe pass sorting by id.
The conditions above are exactly the ones under which that pass is
skipped, so ordered output needs only reversing for a backward scan.

evaluate_index gains a plan shape it did not have: a full index scan when
the ordering is the reason to use it. Without that, find({}).sort(...)
was unreachable -- an empty filter yields no clauses and the planner bailed
before looking at any index. It is guarded to only appear when the sort is
satisfied, since otherwise scanning the docs map directly is cheaper.

The early stop had to move into the scan, which is the only place that
knows whether the order came from an index: a limit is a valid page
boundary without a sort, or with one an index supplies, and otherwise
means nothing. Getting this wrong the other way -- limiting first and
re-scanning -- would have doubled the work for every unindexed sort.

  find({}).sort({k: 1}).limit(20) over 65,536 x 16 KB documents:
    4.0ms -> 1.0ms
  sort({_id: -1}) is unchanged at 4.3ms: nothing ordered covers _id yet.

Checked against the definition rather than by example: eleven query shapes
-- forward, backward, skip, unlimited, filtered, equality-prefixed both
directions, compound, directions the index cannot serve, and a range --
each compared through the real driver against the page of the equivalent
full sort.

Verified: 78 unit tests under ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe, e2e
29/16/17/3/2, the crash pair, e2e6 72/72.
2026-08-02 19:56:33 +03:00
2e508d3ecf index/db: locate index entries by regeneration, not by scanning
remove_id walks every entry in the index comparing ids, so evicting one
document cost O(index size) per index -- on a 65,536-document collection
that is 65,536 id comparisons to remove a single entry, and it ran on
every update and every delete.

Entry generation is a pure function of the document, so remove_doc
regenerates the entries the document contributed and binary-searches for
each one. evict_doc now removes the document from the docs map first and
hands the document itself to the index, while both it and the map key are
still alive.

  updateMany({k: 7}, {$inc}) over 65,536 documents, measured A/B:
    15.4ms -> 5.5ms   (MongoDB 8.3.7: 6.1ms)

It is infallible by construction. Regeneration allocates and can fail,
and a document the index could not key contributed nothing to remove; in
either case it falls back to the scan, which is always correct. It also
falls back if the regenerated entries are not all found, so a
disagreement degrades to slow rather than leaving a stale index. That
last guard is defensive only -- regeneration is deterministic, so the
test below does not reach it.

The equivalence is checked directly rather than by example: two identical
indexes are built over documents exercising multikey arrays with repeats,
missing fields and both sparse settings, then emptied document by
document in shuffled order -- one through remove_doc, one through
remove_id -- asserting the entry arrays stay byte-identical at every
step. Verified it fails when removal order is reversed, which is the way
positional removal actually breaks.

Insertion still memmoves the tail. That, and ordered leaf iteration, are
what the tree is still for.

Note for later: the updateOne({_id}) and deleteOne({_id}) paths are slow
here for an unrelated reason -- an integer _id is rejected by
value_fast_path_safe, so each one is a full collection scan. The encoded
keys already make that guard unnecessary; removing it belongs with the
_id index.

Verified: 78 unit tests under ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe, e2e
29/16/17/3/2, the crash pair, e2e6 72/72.
2026-08-02 19:47:44 +03:00
6feacc21cd index: hold encoded byte keys instead of Value slices
Entry.key becomes the order-preserving byte encoding of the indexed
values, concatenated column by column, instead of a slice of Values.
Comparing two entries is now a memcmp.

The old representation allocated one Value slice per entry, and each
Value in it pointed into a different document's arena -- so a binary
search over the entry array was a chain of pointer chases across the
heap, and every comparison walked the key component by component
dispatching on BSON type. Byte keys make the comparison contiguous and
type-free, and the key no longer aliases the document at all.

  createIndex over 65,536 documents:
    {k: 1}          56ms -> 44ms
    {s: 1} unique   53ms -> 31ms
    {p: 1, k: -1}   54ms -> 37ms
  (both already down from ~650ms before the bulk build)

The search API still takes Values and encodes at the call site: lookups
happen per query, not per document, so there is nothing to gain from
pushing the encoding out to callers, and Plan keeps its current shape.

Prefix search compares raw byte prefixes, which is sound because every
column encoding is self-delimiting -- a prefix of an encoded key is
exactly the encoding of its leading columns. For the same reason a
complete column encoding can never be a proper prefix of another, so
finish_bulk's duplicate test is now a plain byte equality.

The TTL sweep read entry keys as Values to find datetimes. It now uses
bson.encoded_leading_datetime, which checks the column's tag and decodes
eight bytes rather than the whole key. Still a linear walk for the reason
the existing comment gives.

Key direction is deliberately still not applied to the encoding.
Complementing descending columns would let a sort read the array
forwards, but nothing exploits that yet, and doing it now would change
the array's order for no gain. It belongs with the sort-aware planner.

remove_id is still a linear scan and insertion still memmoves the tail:
those are the tree's job, not this change's.

Verified: 77 unit tests under ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe, e2e
29/16/17/3/2, the crash pair, e2e6 72/72, and the randomized
lookup_range test that checks bounds against a brute-force filter.
2026-08-02 19:28:40 +03:00
ff37e6c813 index/commands: bulk index build, binary-searched ranges, limit push-down
createIndex built the entry array one document at a time, and each
insert kept the array sorted by memmoving the tail -- O(n^2) bytes moved
over a full build, which was the entire cost of the operation. Entries
are now appended unsorted and ordered once (append_doc_entries +
finish_bulk), with uniqueness checked by a single adjacent-pair scan
instead of a binary search per document. build_all_indexes, which runs
for every index on every open, takes the same path.

  createIndex over 65,536 documents, measured A/B:
    {k: 1}          649ms -> 56ms
    {s: 1} unique   678ms -> 53ms
    {p: 1, k: -1}   653ms -> 54ms

lookup_range binary-searched only the equality prefix and then scanned
that whole band applying a filter, so a range on the first component of
an index touched every entry in it. Both ends are now binary searches
over the component the array is already sorted on, clamped into the
equality band. Note this does not move the range-scan row in compare.js:
that query filters on p, which has no index there, so it is a collection
scan and belongs to the matcher.

cmd_find passed a hardcoded 0 as the scan limit, so find().limit(n)
materialized the entire collection before slicing. It now stops once the
page is filled, when there is no sort to order the matches first; the
bound covers the skipped prefix because the scan counts matches rather
than returned documents.

lookup_range's bounds are checked by a new randomized test that compares
the result count against a brute-force filter over 600 generated
queries, with values chosen from a small domain so equal keys and the
inclusive/exclusive edges come up constantly. Verified it fails when
either bound is swapped.
2026-08-02 18:27:28 +03:00
556ad7dc86 storage/db: XxHash3 record integrity, garbage-ratio compaction
Two streams of work land together: they are interleaved in storage.zig
and db.zig and only build as a unit.

Already in the working tree before this session:
  - ReleaseFast as the default zig build (Debug was 10-200x slower)
  - group commit: one fsync per write command instead of per document
  - plan_id returned a pointer to a stack temporary; ReleaseFast read
    garbage and silently broke findOne({_id: ObjectId})
  - perf suite: big.js, compare.js, compare-run.sh, e2e6.js

Phase 1 performance work:

Record integrity hash CRC32 -> XxHash3. std.hash.Crc32 is the
table-driven byte-at-a-time Crc32IsoHdlc, measured at 408 MB/s against
XxHash3's 31 GB/s: 38us versus 0.5us on a 16 KiB document, which was
about two thirds of the entire bulk-insert cost. The record header
grows from u32 crc to u64 hash (header_len 20 -> 24), a breaking
format change. Bulk insert 260 -> 700 MB/s, reopen 1.1 -> 0.5s.

Compaction fsynced once per live document, because Log.open leaves
defer_sync false and compact never set it. It now issues one sync for
the whole rewrite, before the rename that publishes it.

Compaction triggers on the share of the log that is garbage
(live_docs/dead_docs, maintained at evict_doc, the single point where
a document dies) rather than on bytes appended. A fixed byte count is
wrong in both directions: a 1 GB bulk load holds no garbage at all yet
would compact ~64 times under the 16 MiB default, rewriting 1 GB each
time, while a small collection rewritten in place accumulates garbage
indefinitely without ever reaching the count. Pure inserts now never
compact, and the file stays near 1.25x the live data. Bulk load at the
default threshold: 41.6 -> 702.7 MB/s.

remove() never called maybe_compact, so a delete-heavy workload grew
the log without bound.

e2e6's compaction check required the file to bloat past 30 MiB before
being reclaimed, which encoded the old policy and failed on strictly
better behaviour (ends at 15.8 MB against ~12 MB live, was ~30 MB). It
now asserts the file ends near the live size and peaked well above it,
which does not depend on when the trigger fires. Sampling interval 50
-> 10ms: the operations now finish inside the old window.

Verified: 70 unit tests under both ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe, e2e
29/16/17/3/2 checks, the crash-a/kill -9/crash-b pair, and e2e6 72/72
across three consecutive runs.
2026-08-02 18:20:40 +03:00
3c1ab6f656 index/db/commands/server: TTL indexes
createIndex({expireAt: 1}, {expireAfterSeconds: 60}) now deletes a
document once its indexed date is that many seconds old.

index.zig carries the option: Index.ttl (?i64), parsed from
expireAfterSeconds (int32/int64/integral double, within MongoDB's
[0, 2147483647]; 0 means "expire at the stored instant"), emitted by
spec_pairs and so persisted through the log and reported by listIndexes,
and compared by spec_equal — a same-name re-create with a different
expiry stays IndexOptionsConflict, as in MongoDB, since collMod does not
exist here. The bound keeps the value an int32 on the wire and makes the
emission cast unconditional. TTL is single-field only (a compound key is
error.TtlOnCompoundIndex); an absent option parses to null, so every
existing log record reparses unchanged.

db.zig sweeps: Engine.ttl_sweep(now_ms) walks each TTL index's entries
and deletes through the ordinary remove path, so an expiry is logged and
fsynced like any other write and holds across a restart. Expired ids are
duped before removal — remove frees the docs-map key that Entry.id
aliases — then sorted and deduped, because one document can be expired
by several entries (an array of dates expires on its earliest member,
which multikey expansion gives for free) or by several TTL indexes.
Selecting entries is a type test rather than a range lookup: bson
compare order ranks datetime above null, numbers and strings, so a
datetime upper bound would also select every value of a lesser type. A
sweep that deleted something checks the compaction threshold, since a
TTL-only workload never reaches the one in upsert.

commands.zig maps the new spec errors: CannotCreateIndex (67) for a
compound key or an out-of-range expiry, and InvalidIndexSpecificationOption
(197) for an expiry on {_id: 1}, which the idempotent _id no-op would
otherwise swallow.

server.zig runs the monitor as a member of the connection group, so the
existing group.cancel tears it down; it sleeps first, then sweeps under
the write lock, and logs rather than dies on a sweep failure.
--ttl-sweep-secs sets the interval (default 60, 0 leaves it unspawned).

Expiry is coarse by design, as in MongoDB: a document stays visible
until the next sweep, and a non-date value at the indexed path never
expires. Unit tests cover the spec round-trip and every rejection, the
sweep (inclusive cutoff, string/missing/future values untouched, second
sweep a no-op) and its survival of a reopen, and two TTL indexes over
one collection. e2e4.js exercises it through the Node driver.
2026-08-02 14:36:45 +03:00
7482042f34 index/db/commands: fold duplicated index logic into single definitions
Cleanup pass over the secondary-index feature.

add_doc is now the one entry-commit path. create_index and
build_all_indexes each hand-rolled build -> check_unique -> reserve ->
insert, and had already drifted on whether multikey is set before or
after the unique check; add_doc gained an enforce_unique flag so the
rebuild path keeps its tolerate-and-warn behavior. reserve_for and
insert_entries are now the only way the engine touches Index.entries.

One definition each for: prefix comparison and the prefix binary
searches (prefix_order + std.sort), the cartesian-product odometer
(advance_choice), the spec pair list (write_spec builds on spec_pairs,
so the log format and the listIndexes reply share one schema), the _id
clause parser (plan_id reuses analyze_clause), key-pattern direction
(index.descending, which desc_dir already disagreed with on non-numeric
values), option truthiness (query.truthy), the E11000 message, and
index-removal-by-name (Collection.find_index/remove_index). Key-pattern
matching moved out of the dispatcher into index.find_by_key_pattern.

Dead or redundant: ParallelArraysError, the unread `dropped` counter,
insert_entries' discarded gpa, a third pass computing multikey, the
has_id/is_id_index flag pair, Plan.key_len (always lookup_keys[0].len,
now a method), first_match_consumed (now stages = stages[1..]).

Cheaper hot paths: remove_id compacts in one pass instead of an
orderedRemove per hit; Plan.search skips the sort/dedupe when neither
multikey nor multiple lookup keys can produce a repeat; the _id fast
path reuses one scratch key buffer (bson.write_serialized_value); the
plan loop uses the bound collection instead of re-resolving it through
two hash lookups per candidate.

Behavior is unchanged except that dropping plan_id's fixed 16-clause
buffer enables the _id fast path on filters that previously exceeded it.
2026-08-02 13:40:42 +03:00
0d264c6c57 index: guard the $in cartesian cap against u64 overflow; drop debug print 2026-08-02 12:41:28 +03:00
7f2f7c6977 commands: createIndexes/listIndexes/dropIndexes + planner wiring
Adds the three driver commands, parameterized E11000 messages (engine
dup_index carries the index name into writeErrors), the scan_matching
planner wiring (_id fast path → index plan → scan) and the first-$match
aggregate pushdown. The equivalence test (mixed-type corpus x 27 filters,
non-sparse and sparse indexes) drove out three real bugs: the two-bound
range under-approximation on multikey indexes (fall back to scan), a
dangling single-value option array in the planner, and update-time
unique violations now reporting writeErrors instead of corrupting state.
2026-08-02 12:38:25 +03:00
a38ddc2f50 index: secondary index core — entries, search, planner, _id fast path
Adds src/index.zig with the full secondary-index machinery: entry
generation mirroring field_matches (array value + elements), BSON-order
sorted entries with binary search, compound prefix and range lookups,
unique/sparse options, the query planner (longest equality/$in run +
optional range, $in cartesian cap, sparse/null bail), and the _id_ fast
path guarded against serialization-ambiguous values (numbers, strings,
symbols, codes, opaque payloads).

query.collect_values is now pub so entry generation can mirror it exactly.
storage.zig gains record_type_index_create/drop; lib.zig exports index.
2026-08-02 12:21:22 +03:00