perf: store a unique index as one id per key instead of a one-element list - #1295
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… list A unique index kept the classic value -> [id] layout: a CopyOnWriteArrayList per key that never held more than one element, allocated and copied on every write, plus a size check standing in for the uniqueness test. The index now stores the id itself (value -> id) in a map of its own, named with a "|unique" suffix, and enforces uniqueness by comparing the stored id with the writer's: another document under the key is a violation, the same document again is not. An index still in the list layout is migrated the first time it is accessed and the legacy map is dropped, the way the composite layout migrates a non-unique index. drop() removes whichever layouts exist without migrating first. IndexMap exposes the single-id map to the scanner and the filters as one-element lists, so the read path is unchanged; readSortKeys reads the pairs directly. The map has its own name because the RocksDB adapter decodes values by the declared type of the map they live in. IndexManager.close(), clearAll() and dropIndexDescriptor() acted only on the map name recorded in IndexMeta, which is the classic one. That already missed the composite map of a non-unique index: after collection.clear() its rows survived, and a query on that index returned the ids of the cleared documents alongside the new ones (two live documents, four results). With the unique layout it would have rejected the very keys the collection no longer held. All three now cover every layout map an index can occupy. Tests cover write, violation, same-document rewrite, remove by the right and the wrong id, migration from the list layout, drop of both layouts, sort keys, and clear() followed by fresh documents under the same keys on both a non-unique and a unique index. The core and RocksDB suites pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesUnique index lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Inserting a document with multiple unique-indexed values can leave stale index ownership after rejection, causing later valid inserts to fail. This should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SingleFieldIndex
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participant uniqueIndexMap
SingleFieldIndex->>legacyIndexMap: detect legacy value -> id list
legacyIndexMap-->>SingleFieldIndex: return existing ids
SingleFieldIndex->>uniqueIndexMap: write first id for each key
SingleFieldIndex->>legacyIndexMap: drop legacy map
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java`:
- Around line 84-92: The SingleFieldIndex.write path must avoid leaving partial
entries in the unique index when a later array or iterable value conflicts.
Validate all values against indexMap before inserting any, or ensure every value
written by the operation is removed when UniqueConstraintException occurs, while
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| // one id per key: a violation is another document already holding the key | ||
| NitriteMap<DBValue, NitriteId> indexMap = findUniqueMap(); | ||
| forEachElement(element, dbValue -> { | ||
| NitriteId existing = indexMap.get(dbValue); | ||
| if (existing != null && !existing.equals(fieldValues.getNitriteId())) { | ||
| throw new UniqueConstraintException("Unique key constraint violation for " + fields); | ||
| } | ||
| indexMap.put(dbValue, fieldValues.getNitriteId()); | ||
| }); |
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Rollback partial unique-index writes on insert. For a unique-indexed array or iterable, SingleFieldIndex.write stores each value immediately. If a later value conflicts, WriteOperations.insert removes only the document and leaves earlier index entries mapped to the failed document ID. A later valid document can then fail with UniqueConstraintException. Validate all values before writing, or remove every value written by this operation when the write fails.
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/index/SingleFieldIndex.java` around
lines 84 - 92, The SingleFieldIndex.write path must avoid leaving partial
entries in the unique index when a later array or iterable value conflicts.
Validate all values against indexMap before inserting any, or ensure every value
written by the operation is removed when UniqueConstraintException occurs, while
preserving successful multi-value inserts.
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* fix: port three index and catalog fixes from nitrite-java - A unique index no longer rejects a document over a key that document already holds. addNitriteIds treated any existing id under the key as a violation, so it counted the writer's own id against it: a unique index over an array field with a repeated element (['a', 'b', 'a']) collided with the entry it had just written, and so did an index rebuild or a replayed write. Another document under the key is still a violation. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1295) - An update that leaves an indexed value unchanged no longer rewrites the index. "Affected" only meant the update carried the field, and an upsert that writes the whole document back carries every indexed field with its old value, so every index was rebuilt on every update for nothing. A dirty index is still rebuilt. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1297) - MapMetaData copies the stored name set instead of adopting it. cast<String>() returns a view onto the set held in the catalog document, so mapNames.add() edited the stored set in place, before the write meant to record it. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1296) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: getById hands out a copy, not the stored instance The in-memory store returns the very Document it holds, so a caller's doc.put(...) on a getById result edited the store directly and bypassed every index. find() already copied, through ProcessedDocumentStream. getById now clones as the cursor does, and returns null for an unknown id instead of putting null through the processor chain. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1294) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- A unique index no longer rejects a document over a key that document already holds. add_nitrite_ids treated any existing id under the key as a violation, so it counted the writer's own id against it: a unique index over an array field with a repeated element (["a", "b", "a"]) collided with the entry it had just written, and so did an index rebuild or a replayed write. Another document under the key is still a violation. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1295) - An update that leaves an indexed value unchanged no longer rewrites the index. "Affected" only meant the update carried the field, and an upsert that writes the whole document back carries every indexed field with its old value, so every index was rebuilt on every update for nothing. A dirty index is still rebuilt. (nitrite/nitrite-java#1297) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A unique index kept the classic value -> [id] layout: a CopyOnWriteArrayList per key that never held more than one element, allocated and copied on every write, plus a size check standing in for the uniqueness test. The index now stores the id itself (value -> id) in a map of its own, named with a "|unique" suffix, and enforces uniqueness by comparing the stored id with the writer's: another document under the key is a violation, the same document again is not.
An index still in the list layout is migrated the first time it is accessed and the legacy map is dropped, the way the composite layout migrates a non-unique index. drop() removes whichever layouts exist without migrating first. IndexMap exposes the single-id map to the scanner and the filters as one-element lists, so the read path is unchanged; readSortKeys reads the pairs directly. The map has its own name because the RocksDB adapter decodes values by the declared type of the map they live in.
IndexManager.close(), clearAll() and dropIndexDescriptor() acted only on the map name recorded in IndexMeta, which is the classic one. That already missed the composite map of a non-unique index: after collection.clear() its rows survived, and a query on that index returned the ids of the cleared documents alongside the new ones (two live documents, four results). With the unique layout it would have rejected the very keys the collection no longer held. All three now cover every layout map an index can occupy.
Tests cover write, violation, same-document rewrite, remove by the right and the wrong id, migration from the list layout, drop of both layouts, sort keys, and clear() followed by fresh documents under the same keys on both a non-unique and a unique index. The core and RocksDB suites pass.
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