Secondary indexes

Sorted sets

On top of the key value store immudb provides secondary indexes to help developers to handle complex queries.

The sorted set data type provides a simple secondary index that can be created with immudb. This data structure contains a set of references to other key-value entries. Elements of this set are ordered using a floating-point score specified for each element upon insertion. Entries having equal score will have the order in which they were inserted into the set.

Note: The score type is a 64-bit floating point number to support a large number of uses cases. 64-bit floating point gives a lot of flexibility and dynamic range, at the expense of having only 53-bits of integer. When a 64-bit integer is cast to a float value there could be a loss of precision, in which case the order of entries having same float64 score value will be determined by the insertion order.

The KV entry referenced in the set can be bound to a specific transaction id - such entry is called a bound reference. A bound reference will always get the value for the key at a specific transaction instead of the most recent value, including a case where one set contains multiple values for the same key but for different transactions. That way, sets allow optimal access to historical data using a single immudb read operation.

Note: If a compound operation is executed with the ExecAll call, a bound entry added to the set can reference a key created/updated in the same ExecAll call. To make such an operation, set the BoundRef value to true and the AtTx value to 0.

Inserting entries into sets can be done using the following operations: ZAdd, VerifiedZAdd, ZAddAt, VerifiedZAddAt, ExecAll. Those operations accept the following parameters:

• Set: the name of the collection
• Score: entry score used to order items within the set
• Key: the key of entry to be added to the set
• AtTx: for bound references, a transaction id at which the value will be read, if set to 0 for ExecAll operation, current transaction id will be used. Optional
• BoundRef: if set to true, this will be a reference bound to a specific transaction. Optional
• NoWait: if set to true, don't wait for indexing to be finished after adding this entry

Reading data from the set can be done using the following operations: ZScan, StreamZScan. Those operations accept the following parameters:

• Set: the name of the collection
• SeekKey: initial key for the first entry in the iteration. Optional
• SeekScore: the min or max score for the first entry in the iteration, depending on Desc value. Optional
• SeekAtTx: the tx id for the first entry in the iteration. Optional
• InclusiveSeek: the element resulting from the combination of the SeekKey SeekScore and SeekAtTx is returned with the result. Optional
• Desc: If set to true, entries will be returned in an descending (reversed) order. Optional
• SinceTx: immudb will wait that the transaction provided by SinceTx be processed. Optional
• NoWait: when true scan doesn't wait that txSinceTx is processed. Optional
• MinScore: minimum score filter. Optional
• MaxScore: maximum score filter. Optional
• Limit: maximum number of returned items. Optional

Note: issuing a ZScan or StreamZScan operation will by default wait for the index to be up-to-date. To avoid waiting for the index (and thus to allow reading the data from some older state), set the SinceTx to a very high value exceeding the most recent transaction id (e.g. maximum int value) and set NoWait to true.

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::: tab Go <<< @/code-examples/go/develop-kv-indexes/main.go :::

::: tab Java

byte[] value1 = {0, 1, 2, 3};
byte[] value2 = {4, 5, 6, 7};

try {
    immuClient.set("zadd1", value1);
    immuClient.set("zadd2", value2);
} catch (CorruptedDataException e) {
    // ...
}

TxMetadata set1TxMd = null;
try {
    immuClient.zAdd("set1", 1, "zadd1");
    set1TxMd = immuClient.zAdd("set1", 2, "zadd2");

    immuClient.zAddAt("set1", 3, "zadd3", set1TxMd.id);

    immuClient.zAdd("set2", 2, "zadd1");
    immuClient.zAdd("set2", 1, "zadd2");
} catch (CorruptedDataException e) {
    // ...
}

List<KV> zScan1 = immuClient.zScan("set1", set1TxMd.id, 5, false);
// We expect two KVs with key names "zadd1" and "zadd2".

List<KV> zScan2 = immuClient.zScan("set2", 5, false);
// Same as before, we expect two KVs with key names "zadd2" and "zadd1".

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::: tab Python

from immudb import ImmudbClient

URL = "localhost:3322"  # immudb running on your machine
LOGIN = "immudb"        # Default username
PASSWORD = "immudb"     # Default password
DB = b"defaultdb"       # Default database name (must be in bytes)

def main():
    client = ImmudbClient(URL)
    client.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD, database = DB)
    client.set(b"user1", b"user1@mail.com")
    client.set(b"user2", b"user2@mail.com")
    client.set(b"user3", b"user3@mail.com")
    client.set(b"user4", b"user3@mail.com")

    client.zAdd(b"age", 100, b"user1")
    client.zAdd(b"age", 101, b"user2")
    client.zAdd(b"age", 99, b"user3")
    client.zAdd(b"age", 100, b"user4")

    scanResult = client.zScan(b"age", b"", 0, 0, True, 50, False, 100, 101)
    print(scanResult)   # Shows records with 'age' 100 <= score < 101
                        # with descending order and limit = 50


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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::: tab Node.js

import ImmudbClient from 'immudb-node'
import Parameters from 'immudb-node/types/parameters'

const IMMUDB_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
const IMMUDB_PORT = '3322'
const IMMUDB_USER = 'immudb'
const IMMUDB_PWD = 'immudb'

const cl = new ImmudbClient({ host: IMMUDB_HOST, port: IMMUDB_PORT });

(async () => {
    await cl.login({ user: IMMUDB_USER, password: IMMUDB_PWD })

    const { id: id1 } = await cl.set({ key: 'user1', value: 'user1@mail.com' })
    const { id: id2 } = await cl.set({ key: 'user2', value: 'user2@mail.com' })
    const { id: id3 } = await cl.set({ key: 'user3', value: 'user3@mail.com' })
    const { id: id4 } = await cl.set({ key: 'user3', value: 'another-user3@mail.com' })

    const zAddAtReq1: Parameters.ZAddAt = {
        set: 'age',
        score: 25,
        key: 'user1',
        attx: id1
    }
    const zAddAtRes1 = await cl.zAddAt(zAddAtReq1)
    const zAddAtReq2: Parameters.ZAddAt = {
        set: 'age',
        score: 36,
        key: 'user2',
        attx: id2
    }
    const zAddAtRes2 = await cl.zAddAt(zAddAtReq2)
    const zAddAtReq3: Parameters.ZAddAt = {
        set: 'age',
        score: 36,
        key: 'user3',
        attx: id3
    }
    const zAddAtRes3 = await cl.zAddAt(zAddAtReq3)
    const zAddAtReq4: Parameters.ZAddAt = {
        set: 'age',
        score: 54,
        key: 'user4',
        attx: id4
    }
    const zAddAtRes4 = await cl.zAddAt(zAddAtReq4)

    const zScanReq: Parameters.ZScan = {
        set: 'age',
        sincetx: 0,
        nowait: true,
        minscore: {
            score: 36
        }
    }
    const zScanRes = await cl.zScan(zScanReq)
    console.log('success: zScan all 36-years-old users', zScanRes)
})()

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::: tab .Net This feature is not yet supported or not documented. Do you want to make a feature request or help out? Open an issue on .Net sdk github project :::

::: tab Others If you're using another development language, please refer to the immugw option. :::

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