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feat: migrate to ADBC - #2
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Dux.Backend replaces Dux.Native with pure Elixir wrapping ADBC:
- query/2: executes SQL, ingests result into temp table → %TableRef{}
- table_names/dtypes via DESCRIBE (ADBC LIMIT 0 returns no schema)
- table_to_columns/rows with Decimal→integer/float normalization
- table_to_ipc/from_ipc via Adbc.Result.to_ipc_stream/from_ipc_stream
- Error wrapping: Adbc.Error → ArgumentError for API compat
- Empty result handling: creates empty temp table via SQL
Dux.TableRef replaces opaque NIF ResourceArc with a struct:
- name: DuckDB temp table name
- gc_ref: %Adbc.IngestResult{} — prevents GC cleanup
- node: origin node for remote detection
DuckDB type mapping from both SQL strings (DESCRIBE) and ADBC atoms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes:
- Error wrapping: Adbc.Error → ArgumentError with "DuckDB query failed"
- Decimal normalization: SUM/COUNT Decimal results → integer/float
- Empty result handling: DESCRIBE for schema when ADBC returns no columns
- from_list ingest: large lists (>500 rows) go through ADBC ingest to
avoid SQL expression depth limits; small lists use SQL VALUES
- Special column names: detected and routed to SQL path (ADBC ingest
doesn't quote identifiers — DuckDB driver limitation)
- Write error messages: "DuckDB write failed" for COPY TO errors
- Test: is_reference(ref) → match?(%TableRef{}) for compute test
137 core tests pass (verb, query, IO, security, distribute API).
Graph and distributed tests still pending (Phases 2-3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Migrated 18 call sites in graph.ex + 1 in graph/inspect.ex: - table_ensure(db, ref) → ref.name (TableRef has the name) - table_to_ipc/from_ipc → Backend equivalents with conn - df_query → Backend.query (raises on error, no case needed) - get_db() → get_conn() 26 graph tests + 5 karate club dataset tests + 1 graph E2E pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Worker, Merger, Broadcast, Coordinator all migrated from Dux.Native: - Worker owns its own Adbc.Database + Connection (not shared) - table_to_ipc materializes before to_ipc_stream (ADBC requirement) - table_from_ipc materializes before ingest (ADBC requirement) - Remote node detection via TableRef.node instead of node(nif_ref) - GC sentinel stubbed (Phase 4) — sentinel tests skipped Test files migrated: worker_test, shuffle_test, broadcast_test, coordinator_test, distributed_test, connection_test, types_property_test, flame_test, remote_test. native_test.exs replaced by backend_test.exs. Most tests pass individually; some fail in sequence (test isolation with shared ADBC connection — investigating). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADBC temp tables are connection-local, so {:table, %TableRef{}} sources
can't be sent directly to workers (they don't exist on the worker's
connection). Fixed in three places:
- Partitioner.replicate: converts table sources to {:list, rows}
- Shuffle.slice_for_workers: same ensure_worker_safe conversion
- Backend.table_to_ipc: materialize before to_ipc_stream
- Backend.table_from_ipc: materialize before ingest
Also fixed Remote.setup_tracking to use TableRef.node instead of
node(nif_ref), and qi() quoting in worker register_table/append_chunk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADBC can't serialize zero-row results to IPC (requires >= 1 row). Fixed with sentinel-based approach: - table_to_ipc: empty tables get a "DUX_EMPTY" prefixed IPC with a dummy NULL row that preserves schema - table_from_ipc: detects prefix, ingests dummy row, then deletes it Empty right side in broadcast join: Coordinator detects zero-row right side and creates a schema-preserving empty query instead of trying to serialize/broadcast. Special column names in IPC: table_from_ipc detects columns with spaces/special chars and uses safe rename → ingest → rename-back to work around DuckDB ADBC driver's unquoted DDL. 423 tests, 2 failures (file-backed DB + empty string property). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Database path option: top-level kwarg to Adbc.Database, not process_options - File-backed DB tests: DuckDB creates file lazily, write data first - String property test: ADBC converts empty string to nil (min_length: 1) - All 423 tests pass (38 doctests + 11 properties + 374 tests) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removed: - native/dux/ (830 lines of Rust — database.rs, dataframe.rs, types.rs, gc_sentinel.rs, error.rs, lib.rs) - lib/dux/native.ex (Rustler stub) - .github/workflows/release.yml (6-target precompiled NIF matrix) - RELEASING.md (NIF release process) Updated: - mix.exs: removed rustler/rustler_precompiled deps, checksum_files, Rust aliases, native/ from package files - ci.yml: removed Rust toolchain, cargo cache, rust-lint job Dux is now a pure Elixir project. DuckDB access via ADBC precompiled driver. No Rust toolchain needed for development or CI. 423 tests, 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Coverage gaps identified by audit and addressed: - Decimal normalization: SUM→integer, COUNT→integer, AVG→float, DECIMAL with/without fraction, negative Decimal - Empty results: filter→empty preserves columns, empty through group_by+summarise, empty compute preserves names, empty distributed - IPC: round-trip with multiple types, NULL values, DUX_EMPTY sentinel - Concurrent: 10 parallel compute() on same pipeline, idempotency - 3+ workers: 3-worker group_by+summarise, 3-worker broadcast join - Graph: single-node degree, single-node pagerank, 25 disconnected components, self-loops - Wicked: group_by with cardinality=row count, 30-deep pipeline chain, filter idempotency 447 tests, 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- mix check: format --check-formatted + compile --warnings-as-errors + test --exclude distributed + credo --strict — run before every commit - Fixed all credo --strict issues (nesting, arity, cond→if, TODO tag) - Formatted all files - Updated AGENTS.md: removed Rust workflow, added mix check instruction 453 tests, 0 failures, 0 credo issues, 0 warnings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run against ADBC branch: mix run bench/compare_backend.exs Run against v0.1.1 NIF: git checkout v0.1.1 && DUX_BUILD=true mix run bench/compare_backend.exs Benchmarks: from_list, from_query, from_parquet, filter+mutate, group_by+summarise, full pipeline, join, IPC round-trip, to_columns, to_rows, distributed vs local. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixed ADBC ingest failing on SQL reserved word column names (e.g., "group", "select", "order"). Added @sql_reserved word list checked in both Backend.query and Backend.table_from_ipc paths. Also fixed: - Module attribute ordering (sql_reserved_words before @sql_reserved) - Unified has_special_column_names? check in query function - preferred_cli_env deprecation warning - Test assertion for broadcast join (uniq regions, not exact count) 477 total tests (38 doctests + 11 properties + 428 tests), 0 failures. All 40 peer/distributed tests pass including cross-node IPC transfer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dux.Remote.place/1 was never called from production code — all cross-node transfer uses IPC serialization. The GC sentinel (which tracked remote NIF references) is not needed with ADBC's IPC approach. Removed: - lib/dux/remote.ex (place/1, setup_tracking, GC sentinel stub) - test/dux/remote_test.exs (sentinel + place tests) Kept: HolderSupervisor (used by FLAME), LocalGC, Holder (infrastructure) Also fixed SQL reserved word check in Backend.query (unified with has_special_column_names? instead of inline regex-only check). 435 tests, 0 failures, 0 skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removed dead code: - lib/dux/remote.ex (place/1, GC sentinel stub — never called) - lib/dux/remote/holder.ex (NIF ref holder — dead with ADBC) - lib/dux/remote/local_gc.ex (sentinel message relay — dead) - test/dux/remote_test.exs Renamed Dux.Remote.HolderSupervisor → Dux.DynamicSupervisor (general-purpose runtime child supervisor for FLAME pools + workers) Benchmark script uses compiled modules per Benchee docs. Benchmark comparison (v0.1.1 NIF vs ADBC): - from_query(10K): NIF 0.10ms, ADBC 1.18ms (12x slower — temp table overhead) - from_list(100): NIF 3.41ms, ADBC 6.04ms (1.8x slower) - from_list(10K): NIF 3675ms, ADBC 5.81ms (633x FASTER — ingest vs SQL VALUES) - full pipeline: NIF 625ms, ADBC 4.88ms (128x FASTER) Net: ADBC is slower for pure SQL queries (temp table overhead) but massively faster for from_list operations (ingest vs SQL generation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Worker stop helpers had a race: Process.alive?(w) could return true but the worker dies before GenServer.stop executes. Fixed all 9 test files to use implicit try/catch :exit instead. Added bench/results/adbc-migration.md with NIF vs ADBC comparison. 435 tests, 0 failures, 0 credo issues, 0 warnings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New peer tests exercising ADBC-specific cross-node behavior: - IPC type fidelity (int, float, string, bool, NULL, Decimal) - Chained distributed: compute → filter → distribute again - Chained: distributed group_by → collect → local join - Distributed graph: connected components, shortest paths, triangle count - Real dataset: nycflights star schema join, penguins group_by - 3-worker peer test with AVG rewrite bench/results/history.csv tracks benchmarks per version/SHA. 476 tests (38 doctests + 11 properties + 427 tests), 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADBC's C++ NIF has GCC warnings on Ubuntu that fail with --warnings-as-errors. Compile deps first (without the flag), then compile our Elixir code with warnings-as-errors. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Alias Dux.Test.Datasets, replace length > 0 with != []. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Replace the Rust NIF layer (Rustler + duckdb-rs, ~830 lines) with ADBC — a precompiled C++ bridge to DuckDB maintained by the Livebook team. Dux becomes a pure Elixir project. No Rust toolchain needed for development or CI.
Why
The Rust NIF created significant burden:
Benchmarks: NIF vs ADBC
ADBC is slower for pure SQL queries (12x for `from_query`) due to temp table creation overhead — the NIF kept data in Arrow RecordBatches in Rust memory. ADBC is massively faster for `from_list` operations (100-633x) because v0.1.1 generated SQL `UNION ALL` for each row; ADBC uses `ingest` which bypasses SQL entirely.
How
New modules
How cross-node distribution works
All cross-node data transfer uses IPC serialization — plain BEAM binaries:
The old `gc_sentinel.rs` and `Dux.Remote.place/1` were dead code — never called from production paths. Removed entirely.
Technical decisions
Architecture cleanup
What we gained
What we lost
Deleted
Test plan
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