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Dan Rammer f1c4967eeb feat: bring the MemWAL LSM surface to parity across the SDKs (#3962)
## Why

Four of the eight LSM methods are **remote-only in the core**. `impl
BaseTable for NativeTable` implements only
`set`/`unset`/`get_lsm_write_spec` and `close_lsm_writers`; `flush_lsm`,
`compact_lsm` and `get_lsm_stats` fall through to trait defaults
returning `NotSupported` (`rust/lancedb/src/table.rs:679,687,696`), and
`checkpoint_lsm` is built on all three.

That explains the state of the bindings: Node had bound the four that
work against a local table and stopped, so a Cloud user could install an
LSM write spec but had no way to observe fresh-tier state or drive a
checkpoint. Java had none of it at all.

| SDK | set/unset/get spec | closeWriters | flush | compact | getStats |
checkpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rust core |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Python |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Node *(before)* |  |  | — | — | — | — |
| **Node (after)** |  |  | **new** | **new** | **new** | **new** |
| Java *(before)* | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| **Java (after)** | **new** | n/a | **new** | **new** | **new** |
**new** |

Go and C are separate repos and are out of scope here. `closeLsmWriters`
drains cached in-process shard writers, so it has no meaning for Java,
which is a pure REST client.

## Node

Adds napi bindings for `flushLsm`, `compactLsm`, `checkpointLsm` and
`getLsmStats`, plus typed `LsmStats` / `BucketStats` / `GenerationStats`
/ `MemtableStats` objects — typed rather than a JSON blob, matching the
existing `LsmWriteSpec` object in the same file, with `u64` cast to
`i64` per that file's convention.

Because these four are remote-only, the new tests assert each binding
reaches the core and surfaces `NotSupported` against a local table. That
covers the wiring; behavior against a real endpoint stays covered by the
mocked-endpoint tests in `rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs`.

## Python

No new methods. All eight are on `LanceTable`, `AsyncTable` and
`RemoteTable` — the last four landed on the sync `RemoteTable` in #3961,
which is merged into this branch.

What was missing here was reachability. `LsmWriteSpec` was importable
only from the private `lancedb._lancedb`, appearing in `table.py` solely
under `if TYPE_CHECKING:`, and `docs/src/python/python.md` had no
mention of it, which per the repo's docs guidance means it rendered
nowhere in the API reference. It is now `lancedb.LsmWriteSpec`, in
`__all__`, and documented.

## Java

Java reaches LanceDB purely over REST through the generated Lance
Namespace client, and these routes are not in that spec, so they are
issued through a small dedicated client rather than added to the spec.
That call is revisitable — LSM is one of four unspecified route families
alongside `multipart_write`, `page_cache/prewarm` and
`branches/diff|merge`. If those are ever regularized into the spec as a
group, `LanceDbTableLsm` is one file that gets deleted.

`LsmWriteSpec` here is deliberately **not**
`org.lance.memwal.InitializeMemWalParams`. That type defaults to
maintaining *no* indexes where a spec here defaults to maintaining
*every* index, and it cannot express the `null` that asks the server to
resolve the set:

| Value | On the wire | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| unset (null) | `null` | Server resolves **every** maintainable index |
| `Collections.emptyList()` | `[]` | Maintain **none** |
| `Arrays.asList("id_idx")` | `["id_idx"]` | Exactly those |

A dedicated test pins null and `[]` as distinct on the wire, since
collapsing them is the failure mode that motivated a LanceDB-owned type.

`checkpointLsm` is ported from `rust/lancedb/src/table/checkpoint.rs`
with its constants and status semantics intact: 429/503 retried in place
against an 8-budget, 421 restarting from flush against a 3-budget, 5s
poll, and a target watermark fixed after the seal so it terminates under
write load.

`getLsmStats` returns typed `LsmStats` / `BucketStats` /
`GenerationStats` / `MemtableStats`, mirroring the Rust structs in
`rust/lancedb/src/table/lsm_stats.rs` and the objects Node exposes.
Decoding is strict — see below.

## Review feedback

Both gatekeeper findings were real. Each was reproduced against the
scripted test server first, and each fix ships with the reproducer as a
regression test.

**The transport was doubling every checkpoint retry budget.**
`HttpClients.createDefault()` installs Apache's default response retry
strategy, whose retryable-status list is exactly 429 and 503 — the two
statuses `isRetryable` owns. A 429 held against `flush_lsm` issued
**18** wire requests where the loop intends 9, and `compact_lsm` was
retried in place despite the loop being built to fall through to a fresh
stats poll instead. Timing confirmed the mechanism: that run took 25.4s
≈ 16.3s of the loop's own backoff plus 9 × the transport's 1s retry
interval.

Automatic retries are now disabled, so the checkpoint loop is the sole
owner of the 421/429/503 transitions. A side effect worth noting:
`testCheckpointRetriesRetryableStatusInPlace` was passing on a
transport-absorbed 429 and never reaching `issue()`'s retry branch at
all. It now exercises the real path.

**Stats decoding failed open.** `getLsmStats` read the response with
Jackson's `path()`, which yields a missing node that iterates as an
empty array — making "malformed" indistinguishable from "no buckets",
which is indistinguishable from "drained". Four separate payloads made
`checkpointLsm()` report convergence for a checkpoint that never ran:

| Response | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| `{"lsm_stats": null}` or absent key | disabled ✓ | disabled ✓ |
| `{"lsm_stats": {}}` | **reported success** | `IllegalStateException` |
| empty response body | **reported success** | `IllegalStateException` |
| bucket missing required fields | **reported success** |
`IllegalStateException` |

The empty-body row is the one to weight: a proxy 200 with no body is a
realistic production event, and it silently reported a checkpoint that
never happened.

Decoding is now strict and fails closed, matching the serde contract on
the Rust side exactly. One deliberate deviation from the review comment,
which asked that *only* explicit JSON `null` count as disabled: Rust has
`#[serde(default)]` on `lsm_stats`, so an **absent key** decodes to
`None` there too. Java now matches that. It is an absent-or-malformed
**`buckets`** that fails closed, which is the case the comment was
actually protecting.

## Testing

- Java: **33 passing** (8 existing + 25 LSM) against a scripted
`com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer` — no new test dependency. Wire
assertions mirror `rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs:6581-6748`;
checkpoint tests cover convergence, not piling onto a latched bucket,
421 restart-from-flush, 429 retry-in-place, terminal-status propagation,
reissue exhaustion, the exact wire-request count against the retry
budget, and five malformed stats payloads.
- Node: **19 LSM tests passing**; `cargo check`, `npm run build`, `npm
run tsc`, `npm run lint`, `npm run docs` all clean.
- Python: `ruff format --check` and `ruff check` clean.
- Java formatting: `./mvnw -pl lancedb-core spotless:apply` and
`spotless:check` both clean under a JDK 11 toolchain.

## Note: spotless needs a pre-16 JDK

`./mvnw spotless:apply` fails on JDK 16+ with
`JCTree$JCImport.getQualifiedIdentifier()` — google-java-format 1.7,
pinned at `java/pom.xml:34`, predates JDK 16's compiler API change.
**This is pre-existing** and reproduces on a pristine `main` checkout.

It is not a blocker, just a toolchain requirement. Spotless was run
against these sources under JDK 11 and both `spotless:apply` and
`spotless:check` pass on the whole module:

```shell
JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk11 ./mvnw -pl lancedb-core spotless:apply
```

Bumping the plugin so it works on modern JDKs is still worth doing, but
separately from this PR.

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Python

# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
import importlib.metadata
import os
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from datetime import timedelta
from typing import Dict, Optional, Union, Any, List, Iterable
__version__ = importlib.metadata.version("lancedb")
from ._lancedb import connect as lancedb_connect
from ._lancedb import FtsToken
from ._lancedb import LsmWriteSpec
from ._lancedb import tokenize as _tokenize
from .common import URI, sanitize_uri
from urllib.parse import urlparse
from .db import AsyncConnection, DBConnection, LanceDBConnection
from .remote import ClientConfig
from .remote.db import RemoteDBConnection
from .expr import Expr, col, lit, func
from .schema import blob, vector, BlobType
from .job import AsyncJob, Job
from .table import AsyncTable, Table
from .types import BaseTokenizerType
from ._lancedb import Session
from .namespace import (
connect_namespace,
connect_namespace_async,
LanceNamespaceDBConnection,
AsyncLanceNamespaceDBConnection,
)
def _check_s3_bucket_with_dots(
uri: str, storage_options: Optional[Dict[str, str]]
) -> None:
"""
Check if an S3 URI has a bucket name containing dots and warn if no region
is specified. S3 buckets with dots cannot use virtual-hosted-style URLs,
which breaks automatic region detection.
See: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1898
"""
if not isinstance(uri, str) or not uri.startswith("s3://"):
return
parsed = urlparse(uri)
bucket = parsed.netloc
if "." not in bucket:
return
# Check if region is provided in storage_options
region_keys = {"region", "aws_region"}
has_region = storage_options and any(k in storage_options for k in region_keys)
if not has_region:
raise ValueError(
f"S3 bucket name '{bucket}' contains dots, which prevents automatic "
f"region detection. Please specify the region explicitly via "
f"storage_options={{'region': '<your-region>'}} or "
f"storage_options={{'aws_region': '<your-region>'}}. "
f"See https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1898 for details."
)
def connect(
uri: Optional[URI] = None,
*,
api_key: Optional[str] = None,
region: str = "us-east-1",
host_override: Optional[str] = None,
read_consistency_interval: Optional[timedelta] = None,
request_thread_pool: Optional[Union[int, ThreadPoolExecutor]] = None,
client_config: Union[ClientConfig, Dict[str, Any], None] = None,
storage_options: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
session: Optional[Session] = None,
manifest_enabled: bool = False,
namespace_client_impl: Optional[str] = None,
namespace_client_properties: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
namespace_client_pushdown_operations: Optional[List[str]] = None,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> DBConnection:
"""Connect to a LanceDB database.
Parameters
----------
uri: str or Path, optional
The uri of the database. When ``namespace_client_impl`` is provided you may
omit ``uri`` and connect through a namespace client instead.
api_key: str, optional
If presented, connect to LanceDB cloud.
Otherwise, connect to a database on file system or cloud storage.
Can be set via environment variable `LANCEDB_API_KEY`.
OAuth configuration is currently supported only by ``connect_async``;
synchronous LanceDB Cloud connections require an API key.
region: str, default "us-east-1"
The region to use for LanceDB Cloud.
host_override: str, optional
The override url for LanceDB Cloud.
read_consistency_interval: timedelta, default None
The interval at which to check for updates to the table from other
processes. If None, then consistency is not checked. For performance
reasons, this is the default. For strong consistency, set this to
zero seconds. Then every read will check for updates from other
processes. As a compromise, you can set this to a non-zero timedelta
for eventual consistency. If more than that interval has passed since
the last check, then the table will be checked for updates. Note: this
consistency only applies to read operations. Write operations are
always consistent.
Stronger consistency is not free. The smaller the interval, the more
often each read pays the cost of checking for updates against object
storage, raising per-read latency and cost.
client_config: ClientConfig or dict, optional
Configuration options for the LanceDB Cloud HTTP client. If a dict, then
the keys are the attributes of the ClientConfig class. If None, then the
default configuration is used.
storage_options: dict, optional
Additional options for the storage backend. See available options at
<https://docs.lancedb.com/storage/>
manifest_enabled : bool, default False
When true for local/native connections, use directory namespace
manifests as the source of truth for table metadata. Existing
directory-listed root tables are migrated into the manifest on access.
session: Session, optional
(For LanceDB OSS only)
A session to use for this connection. Sessions allow you to configure
cache sizes for index and metadata caches, which can significantly
impact memory use and performance. They can also be re-used across
multiple connections to share the same cache state.
namespace_client_impl : str, optional
When provided along with ``namespace_client_properties``, ``connect``
returns a namespace-backed connection by delegating to
:func:`connect_namespace`. The value identifies which namespace
implementation to load (e.g., ``"dir"`` or ``"rest"``).
namespace_client_properties : dict, optional
Configuration to pass to the namespace client implementation. Required
when ``namespace_client_impl`` is set.
namespace_client_pushdown_operations : list[str], optional
Only used when ``namespace_client_properties`` is provided. Forwards to
:func:`connect_namespace` to control which operations are executed on the
namespace service (e.g., ``["QueryTable", "CreateTable"]``).
Examples
--------
For a local directory, provide a path for the database:
>>> import lancedb
>>> db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
For object storage, use a URI prefix:
>>> db = lancedb.connect( # doctest: +SKIP
... "s3://my-bucket/lancedb",
... storage_options={
... "aws_access_key_id": "***",
... "aws_secret_access_key": "***",
... "aws_region": "us-east-1",
... },
... )
For tests and temporary data, use an in-memory database:
>>> db = lancedb.connect("memory://")
In-memory databases are not persisted. Tables are dropped when the last
connection or table handle referencing them is closed.
Connect to LanceDB cloud:
>>> db = lancedb.connect("db://my_database", api_key="ldb_...",
... client_config={"retry_config": {"retries": 5}})
Connect to a namespace-backed database:
>>> db = lancedb.connect(namespace_client_impl="dir",
... namespace_client_properties={"root": "/tmp/ns"})
Returns
-------
conn : DBConnection
A connection to a LanceDB database.
"""
if namespace_client_impl is not None:
if namespace_client_properties is None:
raise ValueError(
"namespace_client_properties must be provided when "
"namespace_client_impl is set"
)
if kwargs:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown keyword arguments: {kwargs}")
return connect_namespace(
namespace_client_impl,
namespace_client_properties,
read_consistency_interval=read_consistency_interval,
storage_options=storage_options,
session=session,
namespace_client_pushdown_operations=namespace_client_pushdown_operations,
)
if namespace_client_properties is not None and not manifest_enabled:
raise ValueError(
"namespace_client_impl must be provided when using "
"namespace_client_properties unless manifest_enabled=True"
)
if namespace_client_pushdown_operations is not None:
raise ValueError(
"namespace_client_pushdown_operations is only valid when "
"connecting through a namespace"
)
if uri is None:
raise ValueError(
"uri is required when not connecting through a namespace client"
)
if isinstance(uri, str) and uri.startswith("db://"):
if api_key is None:
api_key = os.environ.get("LANCEDB_API_KEY")
if api_key is None:
raise ValueError(f"api_key is required to connect to LanceDB cloud: {uri}")
if isinstance(request_thread_pool, int):
request_thread_pool = ThreadPoolExecutor(request_thread_pool)
return RemoteDBConnection(
uri,
api_key,
region,
host_override,
# TODO: remove this (deprecation warning downstream)
request_thread_pool=request_thread_pool,
client_config=client_config,
storage_options=storage_options,
read_consistency_interval=read_consistency_interval,
**kwargs,
)
_check_s3_bucket_with_dots(str(uri), storage_options)
if kwargs:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown keyword arguments: {kwargs}")
return LanceDBConnection(
uri,
read_consistency_interval=read_consistency_interval,
storage_options=storage_options,
session=session,
manifest_enabled=manifest_enabled,
namespace_client_properties=namespace_client_properties,
)
def tokenize(
query: str,
*,
base_tokenizer: BaseTokenizerType = "simple",
language: str = "English",
max_token_length: Optional[int] = 40,
lower_case: bool = True,
stem: bool = True,
remove_stop_words: bool = True,
custom_stop_words: Optional[List[str]] = None,
ascii_folding: bool = True,
ngram_min_length: int = 3,
ngram_max_length: int = 3,
prefix_only: bool = False,
) -> Iterable[FtsToken]:
"""Tokenize a full-text search query using an explicit tokenizer.
This does not require an FTS index. The tokenizer options match
:class:`lancedb.index.FTS`. ``custom_stop_words`` accepts a list of strings.
"""
return _tokenize(
query,
base_tokenizer=base_tokenizer,
language=language,
max_token_length=max_token_length,
lower_case=lower_case,
stem=stem,
remove_stop_words=remove_stop_words,
custom_stop_words=custom_stop_words,
ascii_folding=ascii_folding,
ngram_min_length=ngram_min_length,
ngram_max_length=ngram_max_length,
prefix_only=prefix_only,
)
WORKER_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "_lancedb_worker_"
def _apply_worker_overrides(props: dict[str, str]) -> dict[str, str]:
"""Apply worker property overrides.
Any key starting with ``_lancedb_worker_`` is extracted, the prefix
is stripped, and the resulting key-value pair is put back into the
map (overriding the existing value if present). The original
prefixed key is removed.
"""
worker_keys = [k for k in props if k.startswith(WORKER_PROPERTY_PREFIX)]
if not worker_keys:
return props
result = dict(props)
for key in worker_keys:
value = result.pop(key)
real_key = key[len(WORKER_PROPERTY_PREFIX) :]
result[real_key] = value
return result
def deserialize_conn(
data: str,
*,
for_worker: bool = False,
) -> DBConnection:
"""Reconstruct a DBConnection from a serialized string.
The string must have been produced by
:meth:`DBConnection.serialize`.
Parameters
----------
data : str
String produced by ``serialize()``.
for_worker : bool, default False
When ``True``, any namespace client property whose key starts
with ``_lancedb_worker_`` has that prefix stripped and the
value overrides the corresponding property. For example,
``_lancedb_worker_uri`` replaces ``uri``.
Returns
-------
DBConnection
A new connection matching the serialized state.
"""
import json
parsed = json.loads(data)
connection_type = parsed.get("connection_type")
rci_secs = parsed.get("read_consistency_interval_seconds")
rci = timedelta(seconds=rci_secs) if rci_secs is not None else None
storage_options = parsed.get("storage_options")
if connection_type == "namespace":
props = dict(parsed.get("namespace_client_properties") or {})
if for_worker:
props = _apply_worker_overrides(props)
return connect_namespace(
namespace_client_impl=parsed["namespace_client_impl"],
namespace_client_properties=props,
read_consistency_interval=rci,
storage_options=storage_options,
namespace_client_pushdown_operations=parsed.get(
"namespace_client_pushdown_operations"
),
)
elif connection_type == "local":
return LanceDBConnection(
parsed["uri"],
read_consistency_interval=rci,
storage_options=storage_options,
manifest_enabled=parsed.get("manifest_enabled", False),
namespace_client_properties=parsed.get("namespace_client_properties"),
)
elif connection_type == "remote":
return RemoteDBConnection(
parsed["db_url"],
parsed["api_key"],
parsed.get("region", "us-east-1"),
host_override=parsed.get("host_override"),
client_config=parsed.get("client_config"),
storage_options=storage_options,
)
else:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown connection_type: {connection_type}")
async def connect_async(
uri: URI,
*,
api_key: Optional[str] = None,
region: str = "us-east-1",
host_override: Optional[str] = None,
read_consistency_interval: Optional[timedelta] = None,
client_config: Optional[Union[ClientConfig, Dict[str, Any]]] = None,
storage_options: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
session: Optional[Session] = None,
manifest_enabled: bool = False,
namespace_client_properties: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
oauth_config=None,
) -> AsyncConnection:
"""Connect to a LanceDB database.
Parameters
----------
uri: str or Path
The uri of the database.
api_key: str, optional
If present, connect to LanceDB cloud.
Otherwise, connect to a database on file system or cloud storage.
Can be set via environment variable `LANCEDB_API_KEY`.
region: str, default "us-east-1"
The region to use for LanceDB Cloud.
host_override: str, optional
The override url for LanceDB Cloud.
read_consistency_interval: timedelta, default None
The interval at which to check for updates to the table from other
processes. If None, then consistency is not checked. For performance
reasons, this is the default. For strong consistency, set this to
zero seconds. Then every read will check for updates from other
processes. As a compromise, you can set this to a non-zero timedelta
for eventual consistency. If more than that interval has passed since
the last check, then the table will be checked for updates. Note: this
consistency only applies to read operations. Write operations are
always consistent.
Stronger consistency is not free. The smaller the interval, the more
often each read pays the cost of checking for updates against object
storage, raising per-read latency and cost.
client_config: ClientConfig or dict, optional
Configuration options for the LanceDB Cloud HTTP client. If a dict, then
the keys are the attributes of the ClientConfig class. If None, then the
default configuration is used.
storage_options: dict, optional
Additional options for the storage backend. See available options at
<https://docs.lancedb.com/storage/>
session: Session, optional
(For LanceDB OSS only)
A session to use for this connection. Sessions allow you to configure
cache sizes for index and metadata caches, which can significantly
impact memory use and performance. They can also be re-used across
multiple connections to share the same cache state.
manifest_enabled : bool, default False
When true for local/native connections, use directory namespace
manifests as the source of truth for table metadata. Existing
directory-listed root tables are migrated into the manifest on access.
namespace_client_properties : dict, optional
Additional directory namespace client properties to use with
``manifest_enabled=True``.
oauth_config : OAuthConfig, optional
OAuth configuration for LanceDB Cloud/Enterprise. This is supported by
``connect_async`` only; synchronous ``connect`` uses API key
authentication for ``db://`` URIs.
Examples
--------
>>> import lancedb
>>> async def doctest_example():
... # For a local directory, provide a path to the database
... db = await lancedb.connect_async("~/.lancedb")
... # For object storage, use a URI prefix
... db = await lancedb.connect_async("s3://my-bucket/lancedb",
... storage_options={
... "aws_access_key_id": "***"})
... # For tests and temporary data, use an in-memory database
... db = await lancedb.connect_async("memory://")
... # Connect to LanceDB cloud
... db = await lancedb.connect_async("db://my_database", api_key="ldb_...",
... client_config={
... "retry_config": {"retries": 5}})
Returns
-------
conn : AsyncConnection
A connection to a LanceDB database.
"""
if read_consistency_interval is not None:
read_consistency_interval_secs = read_consistency_interval.total_seconds()
else:
read_consistency_interval_secs = None
if isinstance(client_config, dict):
client_config = ClientConfig(**client_config)
_check_s3_bucket_with_dots(str(uri), storage_options)
return AsyncConnection(
await lancedb_connect(
sanitize_uri(uri),
api_key,
region,
host_override,
read_consistency_interval_secs,
client_config,
storage_options,
session,
manifest_enabled,
namespace_client_properties,
oauth_config,
)
)
__all__ = [
"connect",
"connect_async",
"tokenize",
"connect_namespace",
"connect_namespace_async",
"AsyncConnection",
"AsyncJob",
"AsyncLanceNamespaceDBConnection",
"AsyncTable",
"FtsToken",
"col",
"Expr",
"func",
"lit",
"URI",
"sanitize_uri",
"blob",
"BlobType",
"vector",
"DBConnection",
"Job",
"LanceDBConnection",
"LanceNamespaceDBConnection",
"LsmWriteSpec",
"RemoteDBConnection",
"Session",
"Table",
"__version__",
]