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Class grendel.storage.intertwingle.SimpleDB

java.lang.Object
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   +----grendel.storage.intertwingle.BaseDB
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           +----grendel.storage.intertwingle.SimpleDB

Simplistic implementation of a RDF-ish database. This is basically a massive hashtable hack. Almost certainly we shouldn't ship this, but it ought to be good enough to play with for a while.

Here's how it works:

There are five files. One is the "store", and it stores the data. All data is accessed via a hash table, so each entry in the store contains one or two pointers to other entries with the same hash. ("two" is in the case where there are two hash tables into the same data.)

The other four files are head pointers into the hashtable, for various hashes.

Random strings are stored in the store. They get hashed using String.hashCode(), the hash value is masked off to HASHMASK, and the first pointer to the hashtable appear in the "strhead" file. Each entry consists of a pointer to the next string with the same hashcode, and then a refcount, and then the UTF version of the string itself.

Assertions are stored in the store. Each assertion is three strings: name, slot, and value. The strings are first put into the store, and then the assertion is recorded by writing down the location of the strings. Each assertion is hashed twice: once by combining the name and slot, and once by combining the value and slot. So, each assertion records the next value for both hash tables, followed by the three string locations. So, each assertion costs 20 bytes on disk, not counting the string storage. The "head[]" files are the first pointers for each hashtable.

Finally, a free list of unused chunks in the store are kept. The "freehead" file points to the first free entry of a given size; each free entry points to the next free entry of the same size.

public final class  SimpleDB
     extends grendel.storage.intertwingle.BaseDB
{
          // Fields 8
     private static final int HASHMASK;
     private static final int MAXALLOC;
     private static final int MINALLOC;
     private RandomAccessFile freehead;
     private RandomAccessFile[] head;
     private RandomAccessFile store;
     private File storename;
     private RandomAccessFile strhead;

          // Constructors 1
     public SimpleDB(File) throws IOException;

          // Methods 11
     private int LookupString(String, boolean) throws IOException;
     private void addStringRef(int) throws IOException;
     private int alloc(int) throws IOException;
     public synchronized void assert(String, String, String) throws IOException;
     public synchronized void dump(PrintStream) throws IOException;
     private void dumpString(int) throws IOException;
     public synchronized Enumeration findAll(String, String, boolean) throws IOException;
     public synchronized String findFirst(String, String, boolean) throws IOException;
     private void free(int, int) throws IOException;
     private void removeStringRef(int) throws IOException;
     public synchronized void unassert(String, String, String) throws IOException;

          // Inner Classes 1
     class AllEnumerator
}

• storename

   private File storename

• store

   private RandomAccessFile store

• head

   private RandomAccessFile[] head

• strhead

   private RandomAccessFile strhead

• freehead

   private RandomAccessFile freehead

• MINALLOC

   private static final int MINALLOC

• MAXALLOC

   private static final int MAXALLOC

• HASHMASK

   private static final int HASHMASK

• SimpleDB

   public SimpleDB(File f)  throws IOException

• alloc

   private int alloc(int length)  throws IOException

• free

   private void free(int ptr, 
                     int length)  throws IOException

• LookupString

   private int LookupString(String str, 
                            boolean create)  throws IOException

• addStringRef

   private void addStringRef(int loc)  throws IOException

• removeStringRef

   private void removeStringRef(int loc)  throws IOException

• assert

   public synchronized void assert(String name, 
                                   String slot, 
                                   String value)  throws IOException

• unassert

   public synchronized void unassert(String name, 
                                     String slot, 
                                     String value)  throws IOException

• findFirst

   public synchronized String findFirst(String name, 
                                        String slot, 
                                        boolean reverse)  throws IOException

• findAll

   public synchronized Enumeration findAll(String name, 
                                           String slot, 
                                           boolean reverse)  throws IOException

• dumpString

   private void dumpString(int loc)  throws IOException

• dump

   public synchronized void dump(PrintStream out)  throws IOException

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