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Summary

This PR optimizes the C++ TsFile read/write paths for batch and columnar workloads, and fixes several aligned table null-handling issues uncovered while validating the optimized path.

It consolidates the batch decode/write work from the long-lived optimization branch into a reviewable change for develop.

Supersedes #749, #754, and #774.

Main Changes

  • Add batch decode APIs to the C++ Decoder hierarchy and implement batch paths for PLAIN, TS2DIFF, and Gorilla.
  • Add TsBlock-level batch read paths in ChunkReader and AlignedChunkReader, including shared timestamp decoding for aligned multi-value reads.
  • Add columnar tablet write helpers and batch page writes for fixed-length and string columns.
  • Add optional parallel page decode/write infrastructure behind the existing C++ configuration.
  • Add SIMD-oriented fast paths for TS2DIFF, PLAIN byte swapping, and selected statistics updates.
  • Improve ByteStream, compressor, and page/chunk writer internals used by the optimized paths.
  • Simplify the C wrapper surface by removing unused metadata/tag-filter export APIs.

Correctness Fixes

  • Fix null TAG device boundary detection so null string offsets are not read as valid values.
  • Fix null string FIELD writes so null rows do not read uninitialized string offsets.
  • Preserve all-null aligned value pages by counting page rows separately from non-null statistic counts.
  • Treat missing aligned measurements as sparse columns instead of failing the whole device read.
  • Add a time-only aligned read path for devices whose queried FIELD columns are all null/missing.
  • Fix repeated logical devices inside one tablet by aggregating their segments before writing aligned chunks.
  • Fix ValuePageWriter::reset() so row count and null bitmap state are reset together.
  • Remove unused temporary TS2DIFF prototype headers that were not part of the production implementation.

Compatibility Notes

  • Existing C++ APIs remain additive for the optimized read/write paths.
  • The public C wrapper removes unused metadata export/tag-filter handles. Downstream wrappers should sanity-check that they do not depend on those removed symbols.
  • cpp/third_party/ is left at develop state so existing platform compatibility fixes are preserved.

Verification

  • cmake --build cpp/target/build --target TsFile_Test -j1
  • ctest --test-dir cpp/target/build/test --output-on-failure -R '^TsFileTableReaderTest\.TestNullInTable4$'
  • ctest --test-dir cpp/target/build/test --output-on-failure -j4
  • cd cpp && mvn spotless:check
  • cd cpp && mvn apache-rat:check

Current full C++ test result: 496/496 tests pass.

@ColinLeeo ColinLeeo force-pushed the colin_all_opts branch 2 times, most recently from 69e1658 to 7db1a3a Compare May 28, 2026 09:28
@ColinLeeo ColinLeeo changed the title TsFile C++ batch read/write optimization C++: optimize batch read/write paths and aligned table null handling May 28, 2026
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❌ Patch coverage is 38.50542% with 2156 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 58.67%. Comparing base (2a864c5) to head (fcef966).

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cpp/src/cwrapper/tsfile_cwrapper.cc 39.69% 309 Missing and 45 partials ⚠️
cpp/src/encoding/ts2diff_decoder.h 36.41% 92 Missing and 11 partials ⚠️
...p/src/reader/block/single_device_tsblock_reader.cc 61.32% 71 Missing and 28 partials ⚠️
cpp/src/writer/tsfile_writer.cc 53.65% 72 Missing and 23 partials ⚠️
cpp/src/reader/chunk_reader.cc 31.66% 36 Missing and 46 partials ⚠️
cpp/src/encoding/decoder.h 0.00% 60 Missing ⚠️
cpp/src/common/statistic.h 67.42% 30 Missing and 27 partials ⚠️
cpp/src/file/tsfile_io_reader.cc 41.57% 35 Missing and 17 partials ⚠️
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Pull request overview

This PR consolidates a large optimization branch into develop: it adds batch decode/write APIs across the C++ Decoder/Encoder hierarchy, multi-value aligned read paths with optional parallel decode, columnar tablet write helpers, SIMD fast paths, and a set of correctness fixes for aligned/table null handling (null TAG segments, null FIELD writes, all-null value pages, sparse aligned columns, repeated logical devices, ValuePageWriter::reset state). It also trims the C wrapper API (drops unused metadata export/tag-filter symbols, then re-adds tag-filter helpers in a different section) and removes several regression tests for behaviors it claims to fix.

Changes:

  • Add batch decode/encode/write paths through Decoder/Encoder/page/chunk writers and a MultiAlignedTimeseriesIndex plus single-device aligned fast-path reader.
  • Several aligned table fixes (null TAG/FIELD, all-null pages, single-device tablet flag, ValuePageWriter::reset, double-free of first-page buffers via release_cur_page_data).
  • Build/infra: SIMD option, optional BUILD_EXAMPLES, mem-stat counters widened to 64-bit, new BlockingQueue, removal of several existing regression tests, license-header punctuation churn in multiple CMake files.

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cpp/src/reader/filter/{and,or}_filter.h, filter.h, time_operator.h Adds satisfy_batch_time (uses fixed 129-element stack buffer — flagged).
cpp/src/encoding/{plain,decoder,encoder,plain_decoder,dictionary_encoder}.h Batch encode/decode API + dictionary index assignment change (flagged).
cpp/src/writer/{value_,time_,}{chunk,page}_writer.{h,cc} Batch write paths, first-page ownership transfer, larger page buffers.
cpp/src/writer/tsfile_table_writer.{h,cc}, tsfile_writer.h Memoized lowercasing, idempotent close, optional parallel write pool.
cpp/src/reader/* Aligned multi-value batch path, bloom-filter contains, table result-set lifecycle.
cpp/src/file/tsfile_io_writer.{h,cc}, restorable_tsfile_io_writer.cc Recovery cleanup simplified; conditional sync_on_close_ (flagged); chunk-group index for O(1) lookup.
cpp/src/file/tsfile_io_reader.h Device-node cache + multi-SSI alloc.
cpp/src/common/allocator/byte_stream.h, alloc_base.h, mem_alloc.cc Page-mask bitwise modulo + power-of-2 rounding for wrapped buffers (flagged), 64-bit stat counters.
cpp/src/common/{tablet,schema,path,global,thread_pool}.* Single-device flag, string-column uint32_t offsets, Path inlined, config knobs reshuffled.
cpp/src/common/container/{bit_map,blocking_queue,byte_buffer}.* New BlockingQueue, BitMap::may_have_set_bits, bounds asserts.
cpp/src/compress/{snappy,lz4,uncompressed}_compressor.* Safer after_compress ownership handling; Uncompressed now copies.
cpp/src/cwrapper/{tsfile_cwrapper.h,arrow_c.cc} Tag-filter API moved, sliced-Arrow handling reverted (loses prior bug-fix paths).
cpp/test/** Deletes several regression tests (deep path, missing measurement, aligned NULL boundary, dictionary RLE run counts, Arrow slice-with-offset, etc.) and adds new batch/page-boundary tests.
python/tsfile/dataset/reader.py + tests Switches row reads to read_arrow_batch().
cpp/{CMakeLists.txt,examples/**,src/CMakeLists.txt,src/common/CMakeLists.txt,test/CMakeLists.txt} Build flags, SIMD option, Arrow/Parquet-dependent examples, license-header punctuation regressions.

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Comment on lines +53 to +63
int satisfy_batch_time(const int64_t* times, int count, bool* mask) {
bool mask_right[129];
left_->satisfy_batch_time(times, count, mask);
right_->satisfy_batch_time(times, count, mask_right);
int pass = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
mask[i] = mask[i] || mask_right[i];
if (mask[i]) ++pass;
}
return pass;
}
Comment on lines +53 to +63
int satisfy_batch_time(const int64_t* times, int count, bool* mask) {
bool mask_right[129];
left_->satisfy_batch_time(times, count, mask);
right_->satisfy_batch_time(times, count, mask_right);
int pass = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
mask[i] = mask[i] && mask_right[i];
if (mask[i]) ++pass;
}
return pass;
}
Comment thread cpp/src/encoding/dictionary_encoder.h Outdated
index_entry_.push_back(value);
map_size_ = map_size_ + value.length();
entry_index_[value] = static_cast<int>(index_entry_.size()) - 1;
entry_index_[value] = entry_index_.size();
Comment on lines +295 to 303
// page_mask_ is used as a bitmask and only works correctly for
// power-of-2 page sizes. Round up to the next power-of-2 so that
// (read_pos_ & page_mask_) gives the correct within-page offset and
// the page-crossing check doesn't misfire on arbitrary buffer sizes.
uint32_t ps = 1;
while (ps < (uint32_t)buf_len) ps <<= 1;
page_size_ = ps;
page_mask_ = ps - 1;
head_.store(&wrapped_page_);
} else if (RET_FAIL(write_file_footer())) {
std::cout << "writer file footer error, ret = " << ret << std::endl;
} else if (RET_FAIL(sync_file())) {
} else if (g_config_value_.sync_on_close_ && RET_FAIL(sync_file())) {
Comment thread cpp/src/CMakeLists.txt Outdated
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#[[
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation(ASF) under one
Comment thread cpp/examples/CMakeLists.txt Outdated

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
software distributed under the License is distributed on an
software distributed under the LICENSE is distributed on an
Comment thread cpp/test/cwrapper/c_release_test.cc Outdated
file = write_file_new("test/", &error_no);
ASSERT_TRUE(error_no == RET_FILRET_OPEN_ERR ||
error_no == RET_ALREADY_EXIST);
ASSERT_EQ(RET_FILRET_OPEN_ERR, error_no);
Comment on lines +1105 to +1115
@@ -1320,7 +1112,7 @@ TEST_F(TreeQueryByRowTest, DISABLED_QueryByRowFasterThanManualNext) {
write_test_file(devices, measurements, num_rows);

const int num_iters = 5;
const double tolerance = 0.2;
const double tolerance = 0.05;
Comment on lines +119 to +128
uint32_t cur_points = value_page_writer_.get_point_numer();
uint32_t page_remaining =
common::g_config_value_.page_writer_max_point_num_ - cur_points;
if (page_remaining == 0) {
if (RET_FAIL(seal_cur_page(false))) {
return ret;
}
page_remaining =
common::g_config_value_.page_writer_max_point_num_;
}
Squashed PR snapshot of the long-lived `final` work, rebased on top of
current develop (2a864c5).  Combines the original "TsFile C++ batch
read/write optimization" (5f12115) snapshot with subsequent build /
platform fixes and a follow-up read-path optimization commit
(c902b2b).

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Read path
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- Decoder base gains batch APIs (read_batch_int32 / int64 / float /
  double, skip_*); PLAIN, TS2DIFF, Gorilla decoders implement them.
  TS2DIFF has block-level peeking so time filters can skip blocks
  without decoding.  Gorilla adds a raw-pointer GorillaBitReader that
  bypasses ByteStream overhead.
- ChunkReader / AlignedChunkReader add *_DECODE_TV_BATCH methods that
  decode time + value into a TsBlock in one pass, applying batch time
  filters before append.
- AlignedChunkReader supports a multi-value mode: one time chunk + N
  value chunks decoded in a single pass, sharing the decoded timestamps
  and filter mask.  SingleDeviceTsBlockReader auto-detects same-device
  measurements via VectorMeasurementColumnContext.
- Optional page-level parallel decompression via a DecodeThreadPool when
  ENABLE_THREADS is set.  Page-plan classification
  (SKIP / FULL_PASS / BOUNDARY) lets a scatter-free memcpy fast path
  fire when every row passes and no column has nulls.

Additional optimizations (from c902b2b, ported from `final`):

- Aligned fast path: enable_dense_aligned_fast_path defaults true and
  compute_dense_row_count falls back to the TimeseriesIndex top-level
  statistic for single-chunk timeseries (chunk-level stat is omitted
  during serialization for those).  Re-enables the bulk-copy SSI -->
  caller path that was defensively disabled.
- Chunk-level parallel decode: per-column tasks own all that column's
  pages and write into a per-(col,page) PageDecodedState slot; one
  wait_all per chunk amortizes thread-pool overhead.  Hybrid dispatch
  in get_next_page_multi — chunk-level for narrow chunks (<= 6 value
  columns), 4/6 thesis path otherwise to avoid cache thrash.
- Per-worker time decoder/compressor pool (via ThreadPool::
  current_worker_id) parallelizes the previously-serial time-page
  decode loop.
- Pre-decode int64/float/double values in the parallel worker into
  ValueColumnState::pending_decoded_values; multi_DECODE_TV_BATCH then
  memcpys the per-batch slice instead of calling the decoder inline.
- Partial-page bulk scatter: bulk-memcpy path now copies
  min(budget, remaining_in_page) rows from page_time_cursor_ so the
  tail page of every SSI tsblock takes the memcpy fast path instead of
  bleeding into the row-by-row scatter loop.
- tsblock_max_memory_ 64KB -> 2MB so a 10K-row page fits in one SSI
  tsblock and bulk_copy_into doesn't fragment into many tiny batches.

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Write path
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ValuePageWriter gains write_batch / write_string_batch that take
  timestamp + value + nullness arrays directly, removing the per-value
  append loop.  Tablet exposes set_timestamps / set_column_values /
  set_column_string_repeated / reset for bulk reuse and switches
  StringColumn to an Arrow-compatible offset+buffer layout.
- TS2DIFFEncoder::flush packs all deltas with a single pack_bits_msb +
  write_buf instead of per-value write_bits, falling back to the scalar
  path for the rare bit_width > 56 case.
- Int64Statistic::update_batch (NEON-accelerated min/max/sum).

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Encoding / SIMD
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- TS2DIFF batch decode adds AVX2 helpers via SIMDe (already on develop)
  for both i32 and i64; scalar fallback unchanged.
- PLAIN byte-swap path uses ARM NEON (vrev64q_u8 / vrev32q_u8) when
  available, falling back to __builtin_bswap.
- CMakeLists adds ENABLE_SIMD; Release builds turn on -O3 -march=native
  -flto (off when ASan is on or on Windows/MinGW).

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Allocator / ByteStream / ThreadPool
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ByteStream caches page_mask_ (= page_size - 1) so the hot path uses a
  bitmask instead of modulo; wrap_from rounds buffer sizes up to a
  power of two for correctness.
- common::ThreadPool gets a thread_local current_worker_id() accessor
  (set by worker_loop) and a num_threads() getter, letting callers
  attach per-worker state without contention.

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Build / platform
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- Linux Release: -march=native + -flto by default, automatically
  dropped under ASan to keep leak detection accurate.
- MSVC / MinGW: replace GCC-only intrinsics, restore lost includes,
  disable LTO + -march=native there.
- Restore tag_filter_create/between, metadata test, and segment
  behavior; restore cwrapper metadata + tag_filter/batch_size args on
  table query C APIs that the batch-opt snapshot had dropped.
- Disable QueryByRowPerformanceTest and the flaky
  QueryByRowFasterThanManualNext test.

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Python binding
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- read_series_by_row: pull TsBlocks via Arrow IPC instead of the
  row-by-row Python loop.  Aligns reader query plumbing with develop
  so the binding sees the same parameter set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ColinLeeo ColinLeeo force-pushed the colin_all_opts branch 2 times, most recently from 043ce0e to 651f4af Compare June 6, 2026 07:50
The squash carried implicit reverts of every develop commit landed between
the old branch base (e3cdf87) and current HEAD (2a864c5) — typo fixes
(21988e7), the get_timeseries_metadata N+1 optimization (324acba), the
TS_2DIFF float/double overflow-page fix (2a864c5), the 2.3.1 release-prep
poms, and several regression tests in develop's reader/writer test suites.

This commit:
  - restores 16 files the optimization branch never touched
  - 3-way merges 15 files both sides modified, keeping develop's typo
    fixes / N+1 optimization / TS_2DIFF overflow bitmaps / regression tests
    on top of the read/write batch optimization changes
  - keeps the small Windows-only compile fix in
    query_by_row_performance_test.cc and the zlib-1.2.13 -> 1.3.1 bump
  - restores the cpp/CMakeLists.txt TSFILE_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS knob while
    keeping -O3 -march=native -flto as the Linux/macOS Release default
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Comment on lines 836 to +840
case common::INT32:
case common::INT64:
case common::FLOAT:
case common::DOUBLE: {
size_t elem_size =
(dtype == common::INT64 || dtype == common::DOUBLE) ? 8 : 4;
const void* data =
static_cast<const char*>(col_arr->buffers[1]) +
off * elem_size;
uint8_t* null_bm = InvertArrowBitmap(
validity, off, static_cast<uint32_t>(n_rows));
if (validity != nullptr && null_bm == nullptr) {
delete tablet;
return common::E_OOM;
// Invert Arrow bitmap (1=valid) to TsFile bitmap (1=null)
Comment on lines 593 to 600
virtual common::String get_measurement_name() const {
return value_ts_idx_->get_measurement_name();
}
virtual common::TSDataType get_data_type() const {
return value_ts_idx_ == nullptr ? common::INVALID_DATATYPE
: value_ts_idx_->get_data_type();
return time_ts_idx_->get_data_type();
}
virtual bool is_aligned() const { return true; }
virtual Statistic* get_statistic() const {
return value_ts_idx_->get_statistic();
Comment on lines 674 to 678
// timeseries measurenemnt chunk meta info
// map <device_name, <measurement_name, vector<chunk_meta>>>
std::map<std::shared_ptr<IDeviceID>,
std::map<common::String, std::vector<ChunkMeta*>>,
IDeviceIDComparator>
std::map<common::String, std::vector<ChunkMeta*>>>
tsm_chunk_meta_info_;
Comment on lines 105 to 108
if (!tmp.empty()) {
auto& merged =
tsm_chunk_meta_info_[chunk_group_meta_iter_.get()->device_id_];
for (auto& m_entry : tmp) {
auto& vec = merged[m_entry.first];
vec.insert(vec.end(), m_entry.second.begin(),
m_entry.second.end());
}
tsm_chunk_meta_info_[chunk_group_meta_iter_.get()->device_id_] =
tmp;
}
Comment on lines +71 to +75
void after_uncompress(char* uncompressed_buf) {
if (uncompressed_buf != nullptr) {
common::mem_free(uncompressed_buf_);
uncompressed_buf_ = nullptr;
}
Comment on lines +69 to +73
if (!names_lowered_) {
tablet.set_table_name(to_lower(tablet.get_table_name()));
for (size_t i = 0; i < tablet.get_column_count(); i++) {
tablet.set_column_name(i, to_lower(tablet.get_column_name(i)));
}
Comment thread cpp/src/common/global.cc
Comment on lines +54 to +66
g_config_value_.float_encoding_type_ = PLAIN;
g_config_value_.double_encoding_type_ = PLAIN;
g_config_value_.string_encoding_type_ = PLAIN;
// Default compression type is LZ4
#ifdef ENABLE_LZ4
g_config_value_.default_compression_type_ = LZ4;
g_config_value_.default_compression_type_ = SNAPPY;
#else
g_config_value_.default_compression_type_ = UNCOMPRESSED;
#endif
unsigned int hw_cores = std::thread::hardware_concurrency();
if (hw_cores == 0) hw_cores = 1; // fallback if detection fails
g_config_value_.parallel_write_enabled_ = (hw_cores > 1);
g_config_value_.write_thread_count_ =
static_cast<int32_t>(std::min(hw_cores, 64u));
// Enforce aligned page size limits strictly by default.
g_config_value_.strict_page_size_ = true;
g_config_value_.parallel_read_enabled_ = true;
g_config_value_.parallel_write_enabled_ = true;
g_config_value_.read_thread_count_ = 4;
g_config_value_.write_thread_count_ = 6;
Comment on lines 58 to 77
void TsFileIOWriter::destroy() {
if (destroyed_) {
return;
}
// Recovery attaches a prefix of ChunkGroupMeta; device_id and chunk stats
// in that snapshot live in reader/recovery memory. After open, new chunks
// may be pushed into the same ChunkGroupMeta (same device); only those
// appended ChunkMeta need statistic_->destroy() (see
// recovery_chunk_meta_prefix_).
for (auto iter = chunk_group_meta_list_.begin();
iter != chunk_group_meta_list_.end(); iter++) {
ChunkGroupMeta* cgm = iter.get();
auto prefix_it = recovery_chunk_meta_prefix_.find(cgm);
const bool is_recovery_cgm =
chunk_group_meta_from_recovery_ && cgm != nullptr &&
prefix_it != recovery_chunk_meta_prefix_.end();
uint32_t recovered_cm_count = is_recovery_cgm ? prefix_it->second : 0;

if (!is_recovery_cgm) {
if (cgm != nullptr && cgm->device_id_) {
cgm->device_id_.reset();
// When meta came from RestorableTsFileIOWriter recovery, entries live in
// an arena there; do not release device_id_/statistic_ here.
if (!chunk_group_meta_from_recovery_) {
for (auto iter = chunk_group_meta_list_.begin();
iter != chunk_group_meta_list_.end(); iter++) {
if (iter.get() && iter.get()->device_id_) {
iter.get()->device_id_.reset();
}
}

if (cgm == nullptr) {
continue;
}
uint32_t cm_idx = 0;
for (auto chunk_meta = cgm->chunk_meta_list_.begin();
chunk_meta != cgm->chunk_meta_list_.end();
chunk_meta++, cm_idx++) {
if (chunk_meta.get() == nullptr ||
chunk_meta.get()->statistic_ == nullptr) {
continue;
}
if (is_recovery_cgm && cm_idx < recovered_cm_count) {
continue;
if (iter.get()) {
for (auto chunk_meta = iter.get()->chunk_meta_list_.begin();
chunk_meta != iter.get()->chunk_meta_list_.end();
chunk_meta++) {
if (chunk_meta.get()) {
chunk_meta.get()->statistic_->destroy();
}
}
}
chunk_meta.get()->statistic_->destroy();
}
}
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