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Peter Dillinger 60af964372 Experimental (production candidate) SST schema for Ribbon filter (#7658)
Summary:
Added experimental public API for Ribbon filter:
NewExperimentalRibbonFilterPolicy(). This experimental API will
take a "Bloom equivalent" bits per key, and configure the Ribbon
filter for the same FP rate as Bloom would have but ~30% space
savings. (Note: optimize_filters_for_memory is not yet implemented
for Ribbon filter. That can be added with no effect on schema.)

Internally, the Ribbon filter is configured using a "one_in_fp_rate"
value, which is 1 over desired FP rate. For example, use 100 for 1%
FP rate. I'm expecting this will be used in the future for configuring
Bloom-like filters, as I expect people to more commonly hold constant
the filter accuracy and change the space vs. time trade-off, rather than
hold constant the space (per key) and change the accuracy vs. time
trade-off, though we might make that available.

### Benchmarking

```
$ ./filter_bench -impl=2 -quick -m_keys_total_max=200 -average_keys_per_filter=100000 -net_includes_hashing
Building...
Build avg ns/key: 34.1341
Number of filters: 1993
Total size (MB): 238.488
Reported total allocated memory (MB): 262.875
Reported internal fragmentation: 10.2255%
Bits/key stored: 10.0029
----------------------------
Mixed inside/outside queries...
  Single filter net ns/op: 18.7508
  Random filter net ns/op: 258.246
    Average FP rate %: 0.968672
----------------------------
Done. (For more info, run with -legend or -help.)
$ ./filter_bench -impl=3 -quick -m_keys_total_max=200 -average_keys_per_filter=100000 -net_includes_hashing
Building...
Build avg ns/key: 130.851
Number of filters: 1993
Total size (MB): 168.166
Reported total allocated memory (MB): 183.211
Reported internal fragmentation: 8.94626%
Bits/key stored: 7.05341
----------------------------
Mixed inside/outside queries...
  Single filter net ns/op: 58.4523
  Random filter net ns/op: 363.717
    Average FP rate %: 0.952978
----------------------------
Done. (For more info, run with -legend or -help.)
```

168.166 / 238.488 = 0.705  -> 29.5% space reduction

130.851 / 34.1341 = 3.83x construction time for this Ribbon filter vs. lastest Bloom filter (could make that as little as about 2.5x for less space reduction)

### Working around a hashing "flaw"

bloom_test discovered a flaw in the simple hashing applied in
StandardHasher when num_starts == 1 (num_slots == 128), showing an
excessively high FP rate.  The problem is that when many entries, on the
order of number of hash bits or kCoeffBits, are associated with the same
start location, the correlation between the CoeffRow and ResultRow (for
efficiency) can lead to a solution that is "universal," or nearly so, for
entries mapping to that start location. (Normally, variance in start
location breaks the effective association between CoeffRow and
ResultRow; the same value for CoeffRow is effectively different if start
locations are different.) Without kUseSmash and with num_starts > 1 (thus
num_starts ~= num_slots), this flaw should be completely irrelevant.  Even
with 10M slots, the chances of a single slot having just 16 (or more)
entries map to it--not enough to cause an FP problem, which would be local
to that slot if it happened--is 1 in millions. This spreadsheet formula
shows that: =1/(10000000*(1 - POISSON(15, 1, TRUE)))

As kUseSmash==false (the setting for Standard128RibbonBitsBuilder) is
intended for CPU efficiency of filters with many more entries/slots than
kCoeffBits, a very reasonable work-around is to disallow num_starts==1
when !kUseSmash, by making the minimum non-zero number of slots
2*kCoeffBits. This is the work-around I've applied. This also means that
the new Ribbon filter schema (Standard128RibbonBitsBuilder) is not
space-efficient for less than a few hundred entries. Because of this, I
have made it fall back on constructing a Bloom filter, under existing
schema, when that is more space efficient for small filters. (We can
change this in the future if we want.)

TODO: better unit tests for this case in ribbon_test, and probably
update StandardHasher for kUseSmash case so that it can scale nicely to
small filters.

### Other related changes

* Add Ribbon filter to stress/crash test
* Add Ribbon filter to filter_bench as -impl=3
* Add option string support, as in "filter_policy=experimental_ribbon:5.678;"
where 5.678 is the Bloom equivalent bits per key.
* Rename internal mode BloomFilterPolicy::kAuto to kAutoBloom
* Add a general BuiltinFilterBitsBuilder::CalculateNumEntry based on
binary searching CalculateSpace (inefficient), so that subclasses
(especially experimental ones) don't have to provide an efficient
implementation inverting CalculateSpace.
* Minor refactor FastLocalBloomBitsBuilder for new base class
XXH3pFilterBitsBuilder shared with new Standard128RibbonBitsBuilder,
which allows the latter to fall back on Bloom construction in some
extreme cases.
* Mostly updated bloom_test for Ribbon filter, though a test like
FullBloomTest::Schema is a next TODO to ensure schema stability
(in case this becomes production-ready schema as it is).
* Add some APIs to ribbon_impl.h for configuring Ribbon filters.
Although these are reasonably covered by bloom_test, TODO more unit
tests in ribbon_test
* Added a "tool" FindOccupancyForSuccessRate to ribbon_test to get data
for constructing the linear approximations in GetNumSlotsFor95PctSuccess.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/7658

Test Plan:
Some unit tests updated but other testing is left TODO. This
is considered experimental but laying down schema compatibility as early
as possible in case it proves production-quality. Also tested in
stress/crash test.

Reviewed By: jay-zhuang

Differential Revision: D24899349

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 9715f3e6371c959d923aea8077c9423c7a9f82b8
2020-11-12 20:46:14 -08:00
Peter Dillinger 8b8a2e9f05 Ribbon: major re-work of hashing, seeds, and more (#7635)
Summary:
* Fully optimized StandardHasher, in terms of efficiently generating Start, CoeffRow, and ResultRow from a stock hash value, with sufficient independence between them to have no measurably degraded behavior. (Degraded behavior would be an FP rate higher than explainable by 2^-b and, if using a 32-bit stock hash function, expected stock hash collisions.) Details in code comments.
* Our standard 64-bit and 32-bit hash functions do not exhibit sufficient independence on sequential seeds (for one Ribbon construction attempt to have independent probability from the next). I have worked around this in the Ribbon code by "pre-mixing" "ordinal seeds," sequentially tried and appropriate for storage in persisted metadata, into "raw seeds," ready for application and appropriate for in-memory storage. This way the pre-mixing step (though fast) is only applied on loading or configuring the structure, not on each query or banding add.
* Fix a subtle flaw in which backtracking not clearing ResultRow data could lead to elevated FP rate on keys that were backtracked on and should (for generality) exhibit the same FP rate as novel keys.
* Added a basic test for PhsfQuery and construction algorithms (map or "retrieval structure" rather than set or filter), and made a few trivial related fixes.
* Better random configuration generation in unit tests
* Some other minor cleanup / clarification / etc.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/7635

Test Plan: unit tests included

Reviewed By: jay-zhuang

Differential Revision: D24738978

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: f9d03599d9e2ca3e30e9d3e7d81cd936b56f76f0
2020-11-07 17:22:54 -08:00
Peter Dillinger 746909ceda Ribbon: InterleavedSolutionStorage (#7598)
Summary:
The core algorithms for InterleavedSolutionStorage and the
implementation SerializableInterleavedSolution make Ribbon fast for
filter queries. Example output from new unit test:

    Simple      outside query, hot, incl hashing, ns/key: 117.796
    Interleaved outside query, hot, incl hashing, ns/key: 42.2655
    Bloom       outside query, hot, incl hashing, ns/key: 24.0071

Also includes misc cleanup of previous Ribbon code and comments.

Some TODOs and FIXMEs remain for futher work / investigation.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/7598

Test Plan: unit tests included (integration work and tests coming later)

Reviewed By: jay-zhuang

Differential Revision: D24559209

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: fea483cd354ba782aea3e806f2bc96e183d59441
2020-11-03 12:46:36 -08:00
Peter Dillinger 25d54c799c Ribbon: initial (general) algorithms and basic unit test (#7491)
Summary:
This is intended as the first commit toward a near-optimal alternative to static Bloom filters for SSTs. Stephan Walzer and I have agreed upon the name "Ribbon" for a PHSF based on his linear system construction in "Efficient Gauss Elimination for Near-Quadratic Matrices with One Short Random Block per Row, with Applications" ("SGauss") and my much faster "on the fly" algorithm for gaussian elimination (or for this linear system, "banding"), which can be faster than peeling while also more compact and flexible. See util/ribbon_alg.h for more detailed introduction and background. RIBBON = Rapid Incremental Boolean Banding ON-the-fly

This commit just adds generic (templatized) core algorithms and a basic unit test showing some features, including the ability to construct structures within 2.5% space overhead vs. information theoretic lower bound. (Compare to cache-local Bloom filter's ~50% space overhead -> ~30% reduction anticipated.) This commit does not include the storage scheme necessary to make queries fast, especially for filter queries, nor fractional "result bits", but there is some description already and those implementations will come soon. Nor does this commit add FilterPolicy support, for use in SST files, but that will also come soon.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/7491

Reviewed By: jay-zhuang

Differential Revision: D24517954

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 0119ee597e250d7e0edd38ada2ba50d755606fa7
2020-10-25 20:44:49 -07:00