feat: Replace DuckDB VSS with sharded USearch HNSW indexes#146
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feat: Replace DuckDB VSS with sharded USearch HNSW indexes#146
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…tion Adds storage stats, deferred HNSW index creation, and atomic swap with lock file for crash recovery. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Encapsulates USearch index creation, viewing, clustering, multi-search, quality measurement, and medoid computation. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Provides ShardState dataclass and get_shard_state function to derive metrics from DuckDB and USearch index files without stored counters. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Coordinates shard search, insert, delete, split, merge, and fix_pass maintenance using LIRE-style convergence loop and centroid-based routing. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tracks batch state during bulk indexing with configurable quality check intervals and deferred/immediate modes. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Connection manager no longer holds persistent connections - these are now managed by the executor pattern. Simplifies WAL recovery by removing VSS-dependent recovery paths. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All database operations now delegate to provider's executor for thread-safe execution. Removes direct connection access from repositories. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces DuckDB's HNSW index with custom sharded USearch index. Adds vector_shards table, shard_id column to embeddings, and integrates ShardManager for vector search operations. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes create_vector_index, drop_vector_index, and create_deferred_indexes from the protocol. Vector indexing is now handled by provider-specific implementations. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use ImportError instead of bare Exception, properly echo request IDs, and log errors to debug file when CHUNKHOUND_DEBUG_FILE is set. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Vector indexes are now managed by sharding system via fix_pass. Removes _manage_hnsw_indexes method and related logic. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comprehensive test suite covering 13 invariants from spec section 11.5: - Data integrity (I1-I6): single assignment, shard existence, counts - Operational (I7-I10): fix pass idempotence, convergence, LIRE, NPA - Search (I11-I13): no false negatives, tombstone exclusion, centroid filter 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds create_vector_index/drop_vector_index stubs to FakeDatabaseProvider. Updates integration tests to use new API and await async operations. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Use index.keys[:] slice instead of iterating index.keys (O(n) via get_keys_in_slice vs O(n²) iterator) - Rewrite get_medoid() to use sample-mean + HNSW search in O(sample + log n) time 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Always use K-means for splits (USearch clustering doesn't guarantee constraints) - Add validation to skip splits that would create shards below merge_threshold - Use efficient key slice access for index key iteration - Change missing file log from warning to info (expected for new shards) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add compaction_utils.py with threshold-based compaction logic: - get_storage_stats: DuckDB block statistics - get_row_group_utilization: logical vs physical row counts - should_compact: three-stage decision (free ratio, min size, utilization) - compact_database: EXPORT/IMPORT/SWAP cycle 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add --run-slow CLI flag and @slow marker in conftest.py - Add generate_batch() method for bulk vector generation 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add TestMillionVectorStress: end-to-end stress test with production thresholds - Add TestSplitMergeCycleProtection: verify splits create viable children - Add batch_insert_embeddings_to_db helper and shard verification functions - Rename TestNativeUSearchClustering to TestKMeansSplitClustering - Add MockDBProvider.optimize() using shared compaction_utils 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add EMBEDDING_CHARS_PER_TOKEN (3) and LLM_CHARS_PER_TOKEN (4) constants. All embedding providers now use 3 chars/token, all LLM providers use estimate_tokens_llm() with 4 chars/token. Removes duplicate estimate_tokens_rough. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ction - nprobe config ensures minimum shard exploration (auto: sqrt(shard_count)) - Radius-aware selection uses best-case similarity (centroid - radius) - Split correction detects overlapping clusters and reassigns boundary vectors - Tests for radius caching, nprobe guarantees, and split correction invariants Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # chunkhound/parsers/svelte_parser.py # tests/unit/test_disk_usage_limit.py
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- Compute accurate radius via DuckDB full scan instead of sample-based - Add incremental radius updates O(k) during insertion hot path - Raise minimum nprobe from 1 to 2 for defense-in-depth - Make K-means deterministic with evenly-spaced sampling + numpy assignment - Build child indexes atomically before parent deletion to eliminate race window Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Track affected shards during batch deletion and trigger fix_pass when shard falls below merge threshold. Defers rebuild until transaction commits when inside a transaction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add radius epsilon buffer for floating-point precision - Add orthogonal centroid and controlled cluster generation - Rewrite lifecycle tests with focused scenarios and invariant verification Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HNSW is approximate by design. Changed 100% recall assertions to 95% threshold (industry standard). Added kmeans_random_state config for reproducible tests. Removed mock-heavy sampling tests that were testing implementation details rather than behavior. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Test was non-deterministic (missing kmeans_random_state) and redundant - coverage already provided by test_split_at_threshold using shared fixture. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The DuckDB VSS extension segfaults when compacting HNSW indexes after bulk deletions on Linux. Remove PRAGMA hnsw_compact_index calls and the _compact_hnsw_indexes helper, keeping only CHECKPOINT for space reclamation. The DuckDB HNSW index is being replaced entirely by #146. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This is a substantial architectural overhaul that replaces DuckDB's built-in VSS extension with a custom sharded USearch HNSW implementation. The core motivation: DuckDB's HNSW indexes don't scale well beyond ~100K vectors and rebuilding them on every insert was becoming a bottleneck. The new architecture uses centroid-based shard routing to group semantically similar vectors, enabling parallel search across shards while maintaining locality.
The test suite got a complete rewrite with synthetic vector generators that eliminate external API dependencies.
SyntheticEmbeddingGeneratorprovides deterministic, reproducible vectors for testing clustering, split/merge cycles, and recall validation. The newValidatingEmbeddingProviderintercepts all chunks at the embedding layer to enforce size constraints - this caught parser bugs where oversized chunks were slipping through. Speaking of which: the chunk size constraint tests now cover all 25+ language parsers end-to-end.Review focus areas:
shard_manager.py- The K-Means split logic (lines 580-680) deserves scrutiny; there's cycle prevention logic that needs to work correctlytest_sharding.py- 3000+ lines of new tests; spot-check the invariant validation tests (I1-I13) which define the correctness modelBreaking changes: None at the API level. Internal DuckDB schema adds a
shard_idcolumn to embedding tables and a newvector_shardscatalog table. Existing databases will auto-migrate on first access.See sharding in action: Run the 1M vector stress test to watch splits/merges at production thresholds (split at 100K, merge at 10K):
Takes ~15-20 minutes. Inserts 1M vectors in randomized ~1K batches, then deletes in batches, verifying invariants throughout.
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