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lance_encoding/encodings/logical/primitive/
miniblock.rs

1// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
2// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The Lance Authors
3
4//! Routines for encoding and decoding miniblock data
5//!
6//! Miniblock encoding is one of the two structural encodings in Lance 2.1.
7//! In this approach the data is compressed into a series of chunks put into
8//! a single buffer.
9//!
10//! A chunk must be encoded or decoded as a unit.  There is a small amount of
11//! chunk metadata such as the number and size of each buffer in the chunk.
12//!
13//! Any form of compression can be used since we are compressing and decompressing
14//! entire chunks.
15use crate::{buffer::LanceBuffer, data::DataBlock, format::pb21::CompressiveEncoding};
16
17use lance_core::Result;
18
19pub const MAX_MINIBLOCK_BYTES: u64 = 8 * 1024 - 6;
20pub const MAX_MINIBLOCK_VALUES: u64 = 4096;
21
22/// Page data that has been compressed into a series of chunks put into
23/// a single buffer.
24#[derive(Debug)]
25pub struct MiniBlockCompressed {
26    /// The buffers of compressed data
27    pub data: Vec<LanceBuffer>,
28    /// Describes the size of each chunk
29    pub chunks: Vec<MiniBlockChunk>,
30    /// The number of values in the entire page
31    pub num_values: u64,
32}
33
34/// Describes the size of a mini-block chunk of data
35///
36/// Mini-block chunks are designed to be small (just a few disk sectors)
37/// and contain a power-of-two number of values (except for the last chunk)
38///
39/// To enforce this we limit a chunk to 4Ki values and slightly less than
40/// 8KiB of compressed data.  This means that even in the extreme case
41/// where we have 4 bytes of rep/def then we will have at most 24KiB of
42/// data (values, repetition, and definition) per mini-block.
43#[derive(Debug)]
44pub struct MiniBlockChunk {
45    // The size in bytes of each buffer in the chunk.
46    //
47    // In Lance 2.1, the chunk size is limited to 32KiB, so only 16-bits are used.
48    // Since Lance 2.2, the chunk size uses u32 to support larger chunk size
49    pub buffer_sizes: Vec<u32>,
50    // The log (base 2) of the number of values in the chunk.  If this is the final chunk
51    // then this should be 0 (the number of values will be calculated by subtracting the
52    // size of all other chunks from the total size of the page)
53    //
54    // For example, 1 would mean there are 2 values in the chunk and 12 would mean there
55    // are 4Ki values in the chunk.
56    //
57    // This must be <= 12 (i.e. <= 4096 values)
58    pub log_num_values: u8,
59}
60
61impl MiniBlockChunk {
62    /// Gets the number of values in this block
63    ///
64    /// This requires `vals_in_prev_blocks` and `total_num_values` because the
65    /// last block in a page is a special case which stores 0 for log_num_values
66    /// and, in that case, the number of values is determined by subtracting
67    /// `vals_in_prev_blocks` from `total_num_values`
68    pub fn num_values(&self, vals_in_prev_blocks: u64, total_num_values: u64) -> u64 {
69        if self.log_num_values == 0 {
70            total_num_values - vals_in_prev_blocks
71        } else {
72            1 << self.log_num_values
73        }
74    }
75}
76
77/// Trait for compression algorithms that are suitable for use in the miniblock structural encoding
78///
79/// These compression algorithms should be capable of encoding the data into small chunks
80/// where each chunk (except the last) has 2^N values (N can vary between chunks)
81pub trait MiniBlockCompressor: std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync {
82    /// Compress a `page` of data into multiple chunks
83    ///
84    /// See [`MiniBlockCompressed`] for details on how chunks should be sized.
85    ///
86    /// This method also returns a description of the encoding applied that will be
87    /// used at decode time to read the data.
88    fn compress(&self, page: DataBlock) -> Result<(MiniBlockCompressed, CompressiveEncoding)>;
89}