mentat/query-algebrizer
Richard Newman f42ae35b70 Update cache on write. (#566) r=emily
* Use the cache to make constant queries super fast.
* Fix translate tests to match: we no longer generate SQL for many of them!
* Accumulate additions and removals into the cache.
    * Make attribute cache clone-on-write; store it in Metadata.
    * Allow caching of fulltext attributes, interning strings.
2018-03-06 09:01:20 -08:00
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src Update cache on write. (#566) r=emily 2018-03-06 09:01:20 -08:00
tests Rework caching and use it inside the query engine. (#553) r=emily 2018-02-21 11:51:45 -08:00
Cargo.toml Partial work from simple aggregates work (#497) r=nalexander 2017-11-30 15:02:07 -08:00
README.md Partly flesh out query algebrizer. (#243) r=nalexander 2017-02-15 16:10:59 -08:00

This crate turns a parsed query, as defined by the query crate and produced by the query-parser crate, into an algebrized tree, also called a query processor tree.

This is something of a wooly definition: a query algebrizer in a traditional relational database is the component that combines the schema — including column type constraints — with the query, resolving names and that sort of thing. Much of that work is unnecessary in our model; for example, we don't need to resolve column aliases, deal with table names, or that sort of thing. But the similarity is strong enough to give us the name of this crate.

The result of this process is traditionally handed to the query optimizer to yield an execution plan. In our case the execution plan is deterministically derived from the algebrized tree, and the real optimization (such as it is) takes place within the underlying SQLite database.