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Dan RammerandClaude Opus 5 fe34eb3549 refactor!: rename LSM APIs to MemWAL and align SSTable/table shard naming (#4075)
## What

Renames the MemWAL surface in two passes, across Rust, Python,
TypeScript, and Java, including the wire format.

### 1. MemWAL APIs drop "LSM"

The write path these APIs drive is Lance's MemWAL; "LSM" described its
shape rather than naming it. Turning it on and off now reads as enabling
a feature rather than installing a spec.

| Before | After |
|---|---|
| `set_lsm_write_spec` | `enable_memwal` |
| `unset_lsm_write_spec` | `disable_memwal` |
| `get_lsm_write_spec` | `get_memwal_spec` |
| `flush_lsm` / `compact_lsm` / `checkpoint_lsm` | `flush_memwal` /
`compact_memwal` / `checkpoint_memwal` |
| `get_lsm_stats` | `get_memwal_stats` |
| `close_lsm_writers` | `close_memwal_writers` |
| `use_lsm` (query, merge insert) | `use_memwal` |
| `LsmWriteSpec` / `LsmStats` | `MemWalWriteSpec` / `MemWalStats` |
| Java `LanceDbTableLsm` | `LanceDbTableMemWal` |

TypeScript and Java use camelCase (`enableMemWal`, `getMemWalStats`,
...); the napi methods set `js_name` so the generated names keep the
`MemWal` casing. flush/compact/checkpoint keep a `_memwal` suffix so
`compact_memwal` is not confused with `compact_files` / `optimize`,
which compact the base table.

Internal names (`LsmMode`, `LsmScanner`, the `merge::lsm` / `query::lsm`
modules) are unchanged.

### 2. Stats use SSTable and table shard

Aligns the stats surface with the MemWAL naming settled upstream in
lance-format/lance#7943 and #7957, where the persisted unit became an
**SSTable**.

**Generation → SSTable.** A `GenerationStats` describes one flushed
MemTable, which is an SSTable. The generation *number* is kept — an
SSTable is identified by its generation — so only the noun moved.

**Bucket → table shard.** Each entry is one MemWAL shard. "Bucket" names
only the hash sharding *transform*, so it was already wrong for
`identity` and `year` sharding, which produce shards and no buckets at
all.

| Before | After |
|---|---|
| `GenerationStats` | `SsTableStats` |
| `BucketStats` | `TableShardStats` |
| `stats.buckets` | `stats.table_shards` |
| `BucketStats.generations` | `TableShardStats.sstables` |
| `include_generation_rows` | `include_sstable_rows` |
| `newest_generation` | `newest_sstable_generation` |
| `outstanding_generations` | `outstanding_sstables` |

Docs and comments follow suit: "seal" → "freeze", "L0" / "flushed
generations" → SSTables, "bucket" (meaning a shard) → table shard.

`MemWalWriteSpec::bucket`, `num_buckets`, and the `"Sealed"` shard
status value are **unchanged** — those name the sharding transform or a
server value, not the shard.

## Compatibility

Breaking, for an experimental API. The wire format changes with the
SDKs, so this must roll out together with the matching server change:

- Routes: `/set_lsm_write_spec/` → `/enable_memwal/`,
`/unset_lsm_write_spec/` → `/disable_memwal/`, `/get_lsm_write_spec/` →
`/get_memwal_spec/`, `/flush_lsm/` → `/flush_memwal/`, `/compact_lsm/` →
`/compact_memwal/`, `/get_lsm_stats/` → `/get_memwal_stats/`
- Response keys: `lsm_write_spec` → `memwal_spec`, `lsm_stats` →
`memwal_stats`, `buckets` → `table_shards`, `generations` → `sstables`
- Request fields: `include_generation_rows` → `include_sstable_rows`;
`use_lsm` → `use_memwal` on query and merge-insert bodies

## Validation

- Rust: `cargo test --features remote -p lancedb --lib --tests` — 1467
lib tests and all integration test targets pass; `cargo clippy` clean
- Python: rebuilt the extension; `test_remote_db`, `test_memwal_spec`,
`test_merge_insert_lsm`, `test_query`, `test_permutation`, `test_table`
— 655 passed; `ruff format` / `ruff check` clean
- TypeScript: `pnpm build`; `table`, `merge`, `query` tests — 593
passed; `biome check` clean; `docs/src/js` regenerated with `npm run
docs`
- Java: `mvn test` — 37 passed (Spotless applied with JDK 11; the pinned
google-java-format does not run on JDK 21)

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-16 13:33:57 -05:00

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TypeScript

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
import {
Connection,
LocalConnection,
cleanseStorageOptions,
} from "./connection";
import {
ConnectNamespaceOptions,
ConnectionOptions,
Connection as LanceDbConnection,
JsHeaderProvider as NativeJsHeaderProvider,
Session,
tokenize as nativeTokenize,
} from "./native.js";
import { HeaderProvider } from "./header";
import type { BaseTokenizer } from "./indices";
import type { FtsToken } from "./table";
// Re-export native header provider for use with connectWithHeaderProvider
export {
MaterializedView,
MaterializedViewDefinition,
MaterializedViewSelect,
} from "./materialized_view";
export { ViewDescription } from "./view";
export { JsHeaderProvider as NativeJsHeaderProvider } from "./native.js";
// OpenTelemetry metrics bridge. Only the high-level entry point is public; the
// underlying recorder/catalog/snapshot functions remain internal plumbing that
// `otel.ts` consumes from the native module.
export { instrumentLanceDbMetrics } from "./otel";
export {
AddColumnsSql,
ConnectionOptions,
ConnectNamespaceOptions,
IndexStatistics,
IndexConfig,
ClientConfig,
TimeoutConfig,
RetryConfig,
TlsConfig,
OptimizeStats,
CompactionStats,
RemovalStats,
TableStatistics,
FragmentStatistics,
FragmentSummaryStats,
Tags,
TagContents,
BranchContents,
MergeResult,
AddResult,
AddColumnsResult,
RefreshColumnResult,
FunctionErrors,
FunctionErrorsOptions,
FunctionErrorRecord,
FunctionErrorFragment,
RefreshMaterializedViewResult,
AlterColumnsResult,
UpdateFieldMetadataResult,
DeleteResult,
DropColumnsResult,
UpdateResult,
SplitCalculatedOptions,
SplitRandomOptions,
SplitHashOptions,
SplitSequentialOptions,
ShuffleOptions,
OAuthConfig as NativeOAuthConfig,
} from "./native.js";
export {
makeArrowTable,
makeJsonField,
MakeArrowTableOptions,
Data,
VectorColumnOptions,
} from "./arrow";
export { blob, isBlobField, BlobFile } from "./blob";
export type {
BlobData,
BlobInput,
BlobOptions,
BlobRange,
BlobReadOptions,
BlobUri,
} from "./blob";
export {
Connection,
CreateTableOptions,
TableNamesOptions,
ListTablesOptions,
OpenTableOptions,
ListNamespacesOptions,
CreateNamespaceOptions,
DropNamespaceOptions,
ListNamespacesResponse,
ListTablesResponse,
CreateNamespaceResponse,
DropNamespaceResponse,
DescribeNamespaceResponse,
RenameTableOptions,
} from "./connection";
export { JobFailureInfo, JobInfo, Session } from "./native.js";
export { Job, JobEventsOptions } from "./job";
export {
AutoQuery,
ExecutableQuery,
Query,
QueryBase,
VectorQuery,
TakeQuery,
AnalyzePlanDistributedMetrics,
QueryExecutionOptions,
ColumnOrdering,
FullTextSearchOptions,
RecordBatchIterator,
FullTextQuery,
MatchQuery,
PhraseQuery,
BoostQuery,
MultiMatchQuery,
BooleanQuery,
FullTextQueryType,
Operator,
Occur,
} from "./query";
export {
Index,
IndexOptions,
IvfPqOptions,
IvfRqOptions,
IvfFlatOptions,
HnswPqOptions,
HnswSqOptions,
FtsOptions,
BaseTokenizer,
} from "./indices";
export {
Table,
Branches,
BranchColumnSummary,
BranchColumnChange,
BranchIndexSummary,
BranchRowCountSummary,
CherryPickError,
BranchDiff,
CherryPickPreview,
CherryPickResult,
AddDataOptions,
UpdateOptions,
OptimizeOptions,
Version,
WriteProgress,
FtsToken,
TokenizeTableOptions,
MemWalWriteSpec,
MemWalStats,
TableShardStats,
SsTableStats,
MemtableStats,
ColumnAlteration,
FieldMetadataUpdate,
} from "./table";
export {
HeaderProvider,
StaticHeaderProvider,
OAuthHeaderProvider,
TokenResponse,
} from "./header";
export {
ClientAuthMethod,
OAuthConfig,
OAuthFlowType,
OAuthSession,
SessionLogout,
SessionStatus,
TokenCacheOptions,
} from "./oauth";
export { MergeInsertBuilder, WriteExecutionOptions } from "./merge";
export * as embedding from "./embedding";
export { permutationBuilder, PermutationBuilder } from "./permutation";
export { Scannable, ScannableOptions } from "./scannable";
export * as rerankers from "./rerankers";
export {
SchemaLike,
TableLike,
DataTypeLike,
FieldLike,
RecordBatchLike,
DataLike,
IntoVector,
MultiVector,
} from "./arrow";
export { IntoSql, packBits } from "./util";
/**
* Options for tokenizing a full-text search query without a table index.
*/
export interface TokenizeOptions {
/**
* The tokenizer to use. The default is "simple".
*/
baseTokenizer?: BaseTokenizer;
/** Language for stemming and stop words. */
language?: string;
/** Maximum token length; tokens longer than this are ignored. */
maxTokenLength?: number;
/** Whether to lowercase tokens. */
lowercase?: boolean;
/** Whether to stem tokens. */
stem?: boolean;
/** Whether to remove stop words. */
removeStopWords?: boolean;
/**
* Custom stop words that replace the built-in list for `language`.
*
* This option only affects tokenization when `removeStopWords` is true.
*
* `undefined` keeps the built-in language list. An empty array explicitly
* replaces it with no stop words.
*/
customStopWords?: string[];
/** Whether to fold ASCII characters. */
asciiFolding?: boolean;
/** N-gram minimum length. */
ngramMinLength?: number;
/** N-gram maximum length. */
ngramMaxLength?: number;
/** Whether to only emit token prefixes for the n-gram tokenizer. */
prefixOnly?: boolean;
}
/**
* Tokenize a full-text search query using an explicit tokenizer.
*
* This does not require a table or FTS index. The tokenizer options match
* {@link Index.fts}.
*/
export async function tokenize(
query: string,
options?: Partial<TokenizeOptions>,
): Promise<FtsToken[]> {
return await nativeTokenize(
query,
options?.baseTokenizer,
options?.language,
options?.maxTokenLength,
options?.lowercase,
options?.stem,
options?.removeStopWords,
options?.customStopWords,
options?.asciiFolding,
options?.ngramMinLength,
options?.ngramMaxLength,
options?.prefixOnly,
);
}
/**
* Connect to a LanceDB instance at the given URI.
*
* Accepted formats:
*
* - `/path/to/database` - local database
* - `s3://bucket/path/to/database` or `gs://bucket/path/to/database` - database on cloud storage
* - `db://host:port` - remote database (LanceDB cloud)
* @param {string} uri - The uri of the database. If the database uri starts
* with `db://` then it connects to a remote database.
* @see {@link ConnectionOptions} for more details on the URI format.
* @param options - The options to use when connecting to the database
* @example
* ```ts
* const conn = await connect("/path/to/database");
* ```
* @example
* ```ts
* const conn = await connect(
* "s3://bucket/path/to/database",
* {storageOptions: {timeout: "60s"}
* });
* ```
* @example
* Using with a header provider for per-request authentication:
* ```ts
* const provider = new StaticHeaderProvider({
* "X-API-Key": "my-key"
* });
* const conn = await connectWithHeaderProvider(
* "db://host:port",
* options,
* provider
* );
* ```
*/
export async function connect(
uri: string,
options?: Partial<ConnectionOptions>,
session?: Session,
headerProvider?:
| HeaderProvider
| (() => Record<string, string>)
| (() => Promise<Record<string, string>>),
): Promise<Connection>;
/**
* Connect to a LanceDB instance at the given URI.
*
* Accepted formats:
*
* - `/path/to/database` - local database
* - `s3://bucket/path/to/database` or `gs://bucket/path/to/database` - database on cloud storage
* - `db://host:port` - remote database (LanceDB cloud)
* @param options - The options to use when connecting to the database
* @see {@link ConnectionOptions} for more details on the URI format.
* @example
* ```ts
* const conn = await connect({
* uri: "/path/to/database",
* storageOptions: {timeout: "60s"}
* });
* ```
*
* @example
* ```ts
* const session = Session.default();
* const conn = await connect({
* uri: "/path/to/database",
* session: session
* });
* ```
*/
export async function connect(
options: Partial<ConnectionOptions> & { uri: string },
): Promise<Connection>;
export async function connect(
uriOrOptions: string | (Partial<ConnectionOptions> & { uri: string }),
optionsOrSession?: Partial<ConnectionOptions> | Session,
sessionOrHeaderProvider?:
| Session
| HeaderProvider
| (() => Record<string, string>)
| (() => Promise<Record<string, string>>),
headerProvider?:
| HeaderProvider
| (() => Record<string, string>)
| (() => Promise<Record<string, string>>),
): Promise<Connection> {
let uri: string | undefined;
let finalOptions: Partial<ConnectionOptions> = {};
let finalHeaderProvider:
| HeaderProvider
| (() => Record<string, string>)
| (() => Promise<Record<string, string>>)
| undefined;
if (typeof uriOrOptions !== "string") {
// First overload: connect(options)
const { uri: uri_, ...opts } = uriOrOptions;
uri = uri_;
finalOptions = opts;
} else {
// Second overload: connect(uri, options?, session?, headerProvider?)
uri = uriOrOptions;
// Handle optionsOrSession parameter
if (optionsOrSession && "inner" in optionsOrSession) {
// Second param is session, so no options provided
finalOptions = {};
} else {
// Second param is options
finalOptions = (optionsOrSession as Partial<ConnectionOptions>) || {};
}
// Handle sessionOrHeaderProvider parameter
if (
sessionOrHeaderProvider &&
(typeof sessionOrHeaderProvider === "function" ||
"getHeaders" in sessionOrHeaderProvider)
) {
// Third param is header provider
finalHeaderProvider = sessionOrHeaderProvider as
| HeaderProvider
| (() => Record<string, string>)
| (() => Promise<Record<string, string>>);
} else {
// Third param is session, header provider is fourth param
finalHeaderProvider = headerProvider;
}
}
if (!uri) {
throw new Error("uri is required");
}
finalOptions = (finalOptions as ConnectionOptions) ?? {};
(<ConnectionOptions>finalOptions).storageOptions = cleanseStorageOptions(
(<ConnectionOptions>finalOptions).storageOptions,
);
// Create native header provider if one was provided
let nativeProvider: NativeJsHeaderProvider | undefined;
if (finalHeaderProvider) {
if (typeof finalHeaderProvider === "function") {
nativeProvider = new NativeJsHeaderProvider(async () =>
finalHeaderProvider(),
);
} else if (
finalHeaderProvider &&
typeof finalHeaderProvider.getHeaders === "function"
) {
nativeProvider = new NativeJsHeaderProvider(async () =>
finalHeaderProvider.getHeaders(),
);
}
}
const nativeConn = await LanceDbConnection.new(
uri,
finalOptions,
nativeProvider,
);
return new LocalConnection(nativeConn);
}
/**
* Configuration for the built-in directory namespace (`"dir"`).
*
* The directory namespace stores tables under a single root path (local
* filesystem or object storage URI). See
* {@link https://docs.lancedb.com/namespaces} for the documented surface;
* less-common knobs live under {@link DirNamespaceConfig.extraProperties}.
*/
export interface DirNamespaceConfig {
/** Root path or URI containing the LanceDB tables. */
root: string;
/**
* Whether to maintain a namespace manifest at the root. Required for
* child namespaces. Defaults to true on the impl side.
*/
manifestEnabled?: boolean;
/**
* Additional raw properties passed verbatim to the namespace
* implementation (e.g. `storage.*`, `credential_vendor.*`). Typed
* fields above take precedence on key collision.
*/
extraProperties?: Record<string, string>;
}
/**
* Configuration for the built-in REST namespace (`"rest"`).
*
* The REST namespace talks to a remote catalog server over HTTP. See
* {@link https://docs.lancedb.com/namespaces} for the documented surface;
* less-common knobs (TLS, metrics) live under
* {@link RestNamespaceConfig.extraProperties}.
*/
export interface RestNamespaceConfig {
/** Catalog endpoint URL. */
uri: string;
/**
* HTTP headers forwarded with each request. Keys are passed through
* as-is (e.g. `"x-api-key"`, `"Authorization"`).
*/
headers?: Record<string, string>;
/**
* Additional raw properties passed verbatim to the namespace
* implementation (e.g. `tls.*`, `ops_metrics_enabled`, `delimiter`).
* Typed fields above take precedence on key collision.
*/
extraProperties?: Record<string, string>;
}
function dirConfigToProperties(
config: DirNamespaceConfig,
): Record<string, string> {
// Spread the whole input so that unknown keys (e.g. a raw `manifest_enabled`
// passed via the dynamic-impl path) flow through instead of being dropped.
// Typed transformations layer on top.
const { manifestEnabled, extraProperties, ...rest } = config;
const properties: Record<string, string> = {
...(extraProperties ?? {}),
...(rest as Record<string, string>),
};
if (manifestEnabled !== undefined) {
properties.manifest_enabled = String(manifestEnabled);
}
return properties;
}
function restConfigToProperties(
config: RestNamespaceConfig,
): Record<string, string> {
const { headers, extraProperties, ...rest } = config;
const properties: Record<string, string> = {
...(extraProperties ?? {}),
...(rest as Record<string, string>),
};
if (headers) {
for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(headers)) {
properties[`headers.${name}`] = value;
}
}
return properties;
}
/**
* Connect to a LanceDB database through a namespace.
*
* Unlike {@link connect}, which routes by URI scheme (local path vs.
* `db://` cloud), `connectNamespace` always returns a namespace-backed
* connection. The `implName` selects the namespace implementation:
*
* - `"dir"` — directory namespace, configured with {@link DirNamespaceConfig}.
* - `"rest"` — remote REST catalog, configured with {@link RestNamespaceConfig}.
* - Any other string — full module path for a custom implementation,
* configured with a free-form string-keyed `properties` map.
*
* @example Typed dir namespace
* ```ts
* const db = await connectNamespace("dir", { root: "/path/to/db" });
* await db.createTable("users", [{ id: 1 }]);
* ```
*
* @example Typed REST namespace with auth headers
* ```ts
* const db = await connectNamespace("rest", {
* uri: "https://catalog.example.com",
* headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.CATALOG_KEY ?? "" },
* });
* ```
*
* @example Custom implementation with raw properties
* ```ts
* const db = await connectNamespace("my.custom.Namespace", {
* endpoint: "...",
* });
* ```
*/
export function connectNamespace(
implName: "dir",
config: DirNamespaceConfig,
options?: Partial<ConnectNamespaceOptions>,
): Promise<Connection>;
/**
* Connect through the built-in REST namespace.
*
* Configured with {@link RestNamespaceConfig}. See the function-level
* documentation above for the full surface, examples, and how this
* relates to {@link connect}.
*
* @example
* ```ts
* const db = await connectNamespace("rest", {
* uri: "https://catalog.example.com",
* headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.CATALOG_KEY ?? "" },
* });
* ```
*/
export function connectNamespace(
implName: "rest",
config: RestNamespaceConfig,
options?: Partial<ConnectNamespaceOptions>,
): Promise<Connection>;
/**
* Connect through a custom namespace implementation by full module path,
* configured with a free-form string-keyed `properties` map. Use the
* typed overloads above for the built-in `"dir"` and `"rest"` impls.
*
* See the function-level documentation above for examples and how this
* relates to {@link connect}.
*
* @example
* ```ts
* const db = await connectNamespace("my.custom.Namespace", {
* endpoint: "...",
* });
* ```
*/
export function connectNamespace(
implName: string,
properties: Record<string, string>,
options?: Partial<ConnectNamespaceOptions>,
): Promise<Connection>;
export async function connectNamespace(
implName: string,
configOrProperties:
| DirNamespaceConfig
| RestNamespaceConfig
| Record<string, string>,
options?: Partial<ConnectNamespaceOptions>,
): Promise<Connection> {
let properties: Record<string, string>;
if (implName === "dir") {
properties = dirConfigToProperties(
configOrProperties as DirNamespaceConfig,
);
} else if (implName === "rest") {
properties = restConfigToProperties(
configOrProperties as RestNamespaceConfig,
);
} else {
properties = configOrProperties as Record<string, string>;
}
const finalOptions: ConnectNamespaceOptions = (options ??
{}) as ConnectNamespaceOptions;
finalOptions.storageOptions = cleanseStorageOptions(
finalOptions.storageOptions,
);
const nativeConn = await LanceDbConnection.newWithNamespace(
implName,
properties,
finalOptions,
);
return new LocalConnection(nativeConn);
}
export {
Catalog,
CatalogOptions,
DatabaseNames,
connectCatalog,
} from "./catalog";
export { Listing, ListingOptions } from "./listing";