587: Word prefix pair proximity docids indexation refactor r=Kerollmops a=loiclec
# Pull Request
## What does this PR do?
Refactor the code of `WordPrefixPairProximityDocIds` to make it much faster, fix a bug, and add a unit test.
## Why is it faster?
Because we avoid using a sorter to insert the (`word1`, `prefix`, `proximity`) keys and their associated bitmaps, and thus we don't have to sort a potentially very big set of data. I have also added a couple of other optimisations:
1. reusing allocations
2. using a prefix trie instead of an array of prefixes to get all the prefixes of a word
3. inserting directly into the database instead of putting the data in an intermediary grenad when possible. Also avoid checking for pre-existing values in the database when we know for certain that they do not exist.
## What bug was fixed?
When reindexing, the `new_prefix_fst_words` prefixes may look like:
```
["ant", "axo", "bor"]
```
which we group by first letter:
```
[["ant", "axo"], ["bor"]]
```
Later in the code, if we have the word2 "axolotl", we try to find which subarray of prefixes contains its prefixes. This check is done with `word2.starts_with(subarray_prefixes[0])`, but `"axolotl".starts_with("ant")` is false, and thus we wrongly think that there are no prefixes in `new_prefix_fst_words` that are prefixes of `axolotl`.
## StrStrU8Codec
I had to change the encoding of `StrStrU8Codec` to make the second string null-terminated as well. I don't think this should be a problem, but I may have missed some nuances about the impacts of this change.
## Requests when reviewing this PR
I have explained what the code does in the module documentation of `word_pair_proximity_prefix_docids`. It would be nice if someone could read it and give their opinion on whether it is a clear explanation or not.
I also have a couple questions regarding the code itself:
- Should we clean up and factor out the `PrefixTrieNode` code to try and make broader use of it outside this module? For now, the prefixes undergo a few transformations: from FST, to array, to prefix trie. It seems like it could be simplified.
- I wrote a function called `write_into_lmdb_database_without_merging`. (1) Are we okay with such a function existing? (2) Should it be in `grenad_helpers` instead?
## Benchmark Results
We reduce the time it takes to index about 8% in most cases, but it varies between -3% and -20%.
```
group indexing_main_ce90fc62 indexing_word-prefix-pair-proximity-docids-refactor_cbad2023
----- ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
indexing/-geo-delete-facetedNumber-facetedGeo-searchable- 1.00 1893.0±233.03µs ? ?/sec 1.01 1921.2±260.79µs ? ?/sec
indexing/-movies-delete-facetedString-facetedNumber-searchable- 1.05 9.4±3.51ms ? ?/sec 1.00 9.0±2.14ms ? ?/sec
indexing/-movies-delete-facetedString-facetedNumber-searchable-nested- 1.22 18.3±11.42ms ? ?/sec 1.00 15.0±5.79ms ? ?/sec
indexing/-songs-delete-facetedString-facetedNumber-searchable- 1.00 41.4±4.20ms ? ?/sec 1.28 53.0±13.97ms ? ?/sec
indexing/-wiki-delete-searchable- 1.00 285.6±18.12ms ? ?/sec 1.03 293.1±16.09ms ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing geo_point 1.03 60.8±0.45s ? ?/sec 1.00 58.8±0.68s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing movies in three batches 1.14 16.5±0.30s ? ?/sec 1.00 14.5±0.24s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing movies with default settings 1.11 13.7±0.07s ? ?/sec 1.00 12.3±0.28s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing nested movies with default settings 1.10 10.6±0.11s ? ?/sec 1.00 9.6±0.15s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing nested movies without any facets 1.11 9.4±0.15s ? ?/sec 1.00 8.5±0.10s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing songs in three batches with default settings 1.18 66.2±0.39s ? ?/sec 1.00 56.0±0.67s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing songs with default settings 1.07 58.7±1.26s ? ?/sec 1.00 54.7±1.71s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing songs without any facets 1.08 53.1±0.88s ? ?/sec 1.00 49.3±1.43s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing songs without faceted numbers 1.08 57.7±1.33s ? ?/sec 1.00 53.3±0.98s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing wiki 1.06 1051.1±21.46s ? ?/sec 1.00 989.6±24.55s ? ?/sec
indexing/Indexing wiki in three batches 1.20 1184.8±8.93s ? ?/sec 1.00 989.7±7.06s ? ?/sec
indexing/Reindexing geo_point 1.04 67.5±0.75s ? ?/sec 1.00 64.9±0.32s ? ?/sec
indexing/Reindexing movies with default settings 1.12 13.9±0.17s ? ?/sec 1.00 12.4±0.13s ? ?/sec
indexing/Reindexing songs with default settings 1.05 60.6±0.84s ? ?/sec 1.00 57.5±0.99s ? ?/sec
indexing/Reindexing wiki 1.07 1725.0±17.92s ? ?/sec 1.00 1611.4±9.90s ? ?/sec
```
Co-authored-by: Loïc Lecrenier <loic@meilisearch.com>
608: Fix soft deleted documents r=ManyTheFish a=ManyTheFish
When we replaced or updated some documents, the indexing was skipping the replaced documents.
Related to https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/issues/2672
Co-authored-by: ManyTheFish <many@meilisearch.com>
594: Fix(Search): Fix phrase search candidates computation r=Kerollmops a=ManyTheFish
This bug is an old bug but was hidden by the proximity criterion,
Phrase searches were always returning an empty candidates list when the proximity criterion is deactivated.
Before the fix, we were trying to find any words[n] near words[n]
instead of finding any words[n] near words[n+1], for example:
for a phrase search '"Hello world"' we were searching for "hello" near "hello" first, instead of "hello" near "world".
Co-authored-by: ManyTheFish <many@meilisearch.com>
602: Use mimalloc as the default allocator r=Kerollmops a=loiclec
## What does this PR do?
Use mimalloc as the global allocator for milli's benchmarks on macOS.
## Why?
On Linux, we use jemalloc, which is a very fast allocator. But on macOS, we currently use the system allocator, which is very slow. In practice, this difference in allocator speed means that it is difficult to gain insight into milli's performance by running benchmarks locally on the Mac.
By using mimalloc, which is another excellent allocator, we reduce the speed difference between the two platforms.
Co-authored-by: Loïc Lecrenier <loic@meilisearch.com>
New full snapshot:
---
source: milli/src/update/word_prefix_pair_proximity_docids.rs
---
5 a 1 [101, ]
5 a 2 [101, ]
5 am 1 [101, ]
5 b 4 [101, ]
5 be 4 [101, ]
am a 3 [101, ]
amazing a 1 [100, ]
amazing a 2 [100, ]
amazing a 3 [100, ]
amazing an 1 [100, ]
amazing an 2 [100, ]
amazing b 2 [100, ]
amazing be 2 [100, ]
an a 1 [100, ]
an a 2 [100, 202, ]
an am 1 [100, ]
an an 2 [100, ]
an b 3 [100, ]
an be 3 [100, ]
and a 2 [100, ]
and a 3 [100, ]
and a 4 [100, ]
and am 2 [100, ]
and an 3 [100, ]
and b 1 [100, ]
and be 1 [100, ]
at a 1 [100, 202, ]
at a 2 [100, 101, ]
at a 3 [100, ]
at am 2 [100, 101, ]
at an 1 [100, 202, ]
at an 3 [100, ]
at b 3 [101, ]
at b 4 [100, ]
at be 3 [101, ]
at be 4 [100, ]
beautiful a 2 [100, ]
beautiful a 3 [100, ]
beautiful a 4 [100, ]
beautiful am 3 [100, ]
beautiful an 2 [100, ]
beautiful an 4 [100, ]
bell a 2 [101, ]
bell a 4 [101, ]
bell am 4 [101, ]
extraordinary a 2 [202, ]
extraordinary a 3 [202, ]
extraordinary an 2 [202, ]
house a 3 [100, 202, ]
house a 4 [100, 202, ]
house am 4 [100, ]
house an 3 [100, 202, ]
house b 2 [100, ]
house be 2 [100, ]
rings a 1 [101, ]
rings a 3 [101, ]
rings am 3 [101, ]
rings b 2 [101, ]
rings be 2 [101, ]
the a 3 [101, ]
the b 1 [101, ]
the be 1 [101, ]
New snapshot (yes, it's wrong as well, it will get fixed later):
---
source: milli/src/update/word_prefix_pair_proximity_docids.rs
---
5 a 1 [101, ]
5 a 2 [101, ]
5 am 1 [101, ]
5 b 4 [101, ]
5 be 4 [101, ]
am a 3 [101, ]
amazing a 1 [100, ]
amazing a 2 [100, ]
amazing a 3 [100, ]
amazing an 1 [100, ]
amazing an 2 [100, ]
amazing b 2 [100, ]
amazing be 2 [100, ]
an a 1 [100, ]
an a 2 [100, 202, ]
an am 1 [100, ]
an b 3 [100, ]
an be 3 [100, ]
and a 2 [100, ]
and a 3 [100, ]
and a 4 [100, ]
and b 1 [100, ]
and be 1 [100, ]
d\0 0 [100, 202, ]
an an 2 [100, ]
and am 2 [100, ]
and an 3 [100, ]
at a 2 [100, 101, ]
at a 3 [100, ]
at am 2 [100, 101, ]
at an 1 [100, 202, ]
at an 3 [100, ]
at b 3 [101, ]
at b 4 [100, ]
at be 3 [101, ]
at be 4 [100, ]
beautiful a 2 [100, ]
beautiful a 3 [100, ]
beautiful a 4 [100, ]
beautiful am 3 [100, ]
beautiful an 2 [100, ]
beautiful an 4 [100, ]
bell a 2 [101, ]
bell a 4 [101, ]
bell am 4 [101, ]
extraordinary a 2 [202, ]
extraordinary a 3 [202, ]
extraordinary an 2 [202, ]
house a 4 [100, 202, ]
house a 4 [100, ]
house am 4 [100, ]
house an 3 [100, 202, ]
house b 2 [100, ]
house be 2 [100, ]
rings a 1 [101, ]
rings a 3 [101, ]
rings am 3 [101, ]
rings b 2 [101, ]
rings be 2 [101, ]
the a 3 [101, ]
the b 1 [101, ]
the be 1 [101, ]
606: Make binaries faster on release profile through better compile options r=Kerollmops a=loiclec
Using `codegen-units = 1` and `lto = 'thin'` makes the compile time a bit longer, but also produces faster binaries.
I'd like to run milli's benchmark with these options, so that we can see whether it is worth enabling on meilisearch.
Co-authored-by: Loïc Lecrenier <loic@meilisearch.com>
601: Introduce snapshot tests r=Kerollmops a=loiclec
# Pull Request
## What does this PR do?
Introduce snapshot tests into milli, by using the `insta` crate. This implements the idea described by #597
See: [insta.rs](https://insta.rs)
## Design
There is now a new file, `snapshot_tests.rs`, which is compiled only under `#[cfg(test)]`. It exposes the `db_snap!` macro, which is used to snapshot the content of a database.
When running `cargo test`, `insta` will check that the value of the current snapshot is the same as the previous one (on the file system). If they are the same, the test passes. If they are different, the test fails and you are asked to review the new snapshot to approve or reject it.
We don't want to save very large snapshots to the file system, because it will pollute the git repository and increase its size too much. Instead, we only save their `md5` hashes under the name `<snapshot_name>.hash.snap`. There is a new environment variable called `MILLI_TEST_FULL_SNAPS` which can be set to `true` in order to *also* save the full content of the snapshot under the name `<snapshot_name>.full.snap`. However, snapshots with the extension `.full.snap` are never saved to the git repository.
## Example
```rust
// In e.g. facets.rs
#[test]
fn my_test() {
// create an index
let index = TempIndex::new():
index.add_documents(...);
index.update_settings(|settings| ...);
// then snapshot the content of one of its databases
// the snapshot will be saved at the current folder under facets.rs/my_test/facet_id_string_docids.snap
db_snap!(index, facet_id_string_docids);
index.add_documents(...);
// we can also name the snapshot to ensure there is no conflict
// this snapshot will be saved at facets.rs/my_test/updated/facet_id_string_docids.snap
db_snap!(index, facet_id_string, docids, "updated");
// and we can also use "inline" snapshots, which insert their content in the given string literal
db_snap!(index, field_distributions, `@"");`
// once the snapshot is approved, it will automatically get transformed to, e.g.:
// db_snap!(index, field_distributions, `@"`
// my_facet 21
// other_field 3
// ");
// now let's add **many** documents
index.add_documents(...);
// because the snapshot is too big, its hash is saved instead
// if the MILLI_TEST_FULL_SNAPS env variable is set to true, then the full snapshot will also be saved
// at facets.rs/my_test/large/facet_id_string_docids.full.snap
db_snap!(index, facet_id_string_docids, "large", `@"5348bbc46b5384455b6a900666d2a502");`
}
```
Co-authored-by: Loïc Lecrenier <loic@meilisearch.com>
