Jim Paris
5130ab7e6a
Current/old design has specific layouts: RawData, PrepData,
RawNotchedData.
Let's get rid of this entirely and switch to simpler data types that
are
just collections and counts of a single type. We'll still use strings
to describe them, with format:
type_count
where type is "uint16", "float32", or "float64", and count is an
integer.
nilmdb.layout.named() will parse these strings into the appropriate
handlers. For compatibility:
"RawData" == "uint16_6"
"RawNotchedData" == "uint16_9"
"PrepData" == "float32_8"
git-svn-id: https://bucket.mit.edu/svn/nilm/nilmdb@10981 ddd99763-3ecb-0310-9145-efcb8ce7c51f
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Structure
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nilmdb.nilmdb is the NILM database interface. It tracks a PyTables
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database holds actual rows of data, and a SQL database tracks metadata
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and ranges.
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Access to the nilmdb must be single-threaded. This is handled with
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the nilmdb.serializer class.
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nilmdb.server is a HTTP server that provides an interface to talk,
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thorugh the serialization layer, to the nilmdb object.
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nilmdb.client is a HTTP client that connects to this.
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Sqlite performance
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Committing a transaction in the default sync mode (PRAGMA synchronous=FULL)
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takes about 125msec. sqlite3 will commit transactions at 3 times:
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1: explicit con.commit()
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2: between a series of DML commands and non-DML commands, e.g.
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after a series of INSERT, SELECT, but before a CREATE TABLE or
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PRAGMA.
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3: at the end of an explicit transaction, e.g. "with self.con as con:"
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To speed up testing, or if this transaction speed becomes an issue,
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the sync=False option to NilmDB will set PRAGMA synchronous=OFF.
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Inserting streams
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We need to send the contents of "data" as POST. Do we need chunked
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transfer?
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- Don't know the size in advance, so we would need to use chunked if
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we send the entire thing in one request.
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- But we shouldn't send one chunk per line, so we need to buffer some
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anyway; why not just make new requests?
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- Consider the infinite-streaming case, we might want to send it
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immediately? Not really -- server still should do explicit inserts
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of fixed-size chunks.
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- Even chunked encoding needs the size of each chunk beforehand, so
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everything still gets buffered. Just a tradeoff of buffer size.
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Before timestamps are added:
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- Raw data is about 440 kB/s (9 channels)
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- Prep data is about 12.5 kB/s (1 phase)
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- How do we know how much data to send?
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- Remember that we can only do maybe 8-50 transactions per second on
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the sqlite database. So if one block of inserted data is one
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transaction, we'd need the raw case to be around 64kB per request,
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ideally more.
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- Maybe use a range, based on how long it's taking to read the data
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- If no more data, send it
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- If data > 1 MB, send it
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- If more than 10 seconds have elapsed, send it
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- Should those numbers come from the server?
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Converting from ASCII to PyTables:
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- For each row getting added, we need to set attributes on a PyTables
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Row object and call table.append(). This means that there isn't a
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particularly efficient way of converting from ascii.
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- Could create a function like nilmdb.layout.Layout("foo".fillRow(asciiline)
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- But this means we're doing parsing on the serialized side
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- Let's keep parsing on the threaded server side so we can detect
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errors better, and not block the serialized nilmdb for a slow
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parsing process.
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- Client sends ASCII data
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- Server converts this ACSII data to a list of values
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- Maybe:
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# threaded side creates this object
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parser = nilmdb.layout.Parser("layout_name")
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# threaded side parses and fills it with data
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parser.parse(textdata)
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# serialized side pulls out rows
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for n in xrange(parser.nrows):
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parser.fill_row(rowinstance, n)
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table.append()
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Inserting streams, inside nilmdb
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- First check that the new stream doesn't overlap.
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- Get minimum timestamp, maximum timestamp from data parser.
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- (extend parser to verify monotonicity and track extents)
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- Get all intervals for this stream in the database
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- See if new interval overlaps any existing ones
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- If so, bail
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- Question: should we cache intervals inside NilmDB?
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- Assume database is fast for now, and always rebuild fom DB.
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- Can add a caching layer later if we need to.
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- `stream_get_ranges(path)` -> return IntervalSet?
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Speed
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- First approach was quadratic. Adding four hours of data:
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$ time zcat /home/jim/bpnilm-data/snapshot-1-20110513-110002.raw.gz | ./nilmtool.py insert -s 20110513-110000 /bpnilm/1/raw
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real 24m31.093s
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$ time zcat /home/jim/bpnilm-data/snapshot-1-20110513-110002.raw.gz | ./nilmtool.py insert -s 20110513-120001 /bpnilm/1/raw
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real 43m44.528s
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$ time zcat /home/jim/bpnilm-data/snapshot-1-20110513-110002.raw.gz | ./nilmtool.py insert -s 20110513-130002 /bpnilm/1/raw
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real 93m29.713s
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$ time zcat /home/jim/bpnilm-data/snapshot-1-20110513-110002.raw.gz | ./nilmtool.py insert -s 20110513-140003 /bpnilm/1/raw
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real 166m53.007s
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- Disabling pytables indexing didn't help:
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real 31m21.492s
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real 52m51.963s
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real 102m8.151s
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real 176m12.469s
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- Server RAM usage is constant.
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- Speed problems were due to IntervalSet speed, of parsing intervals
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from the database and adding the new one each time.
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- First optimization is to cache result of `nilmdb:_get_intervals`,
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which gives the best speedup.
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- Also switched to internally using bxInterval from bx-python package.
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Speed of `tests/test_interval:TestIntervalSpeed` is pretty decent
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and seems to be growing logarithmically now. About 85μs per insertion
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for inserting 131k entries.
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- Storing the interval data in SQL might be better, with a scheme like:
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http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/blog/01235197474
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- Next slowdown target is nilmdb.layout.Parser.parse().
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- Rewrote parsers using cython and sscanf
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- Stats (rev 10831), with _add_interval disabled
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layout.pyx.Parser.parse:128 6303 sec, 262k calls
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layout.pyx.parse:63 13913 sec, 5.1g calls
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numpy:records.py.fromrecords:569 7410 sec, 262k calls
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- Probably OK for now.
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IntervalSet speed
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- Initial implementation was pretty slow, even with binary search in
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sorted list
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- Replaced with bxInterval; now takes about log n time for an insertion
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- TestIntervalSpeed with range(17,18) and profiling
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- 85 μs each
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- 131072 calls to `__iadd__`
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- 131072 to bx.insert_interval
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- 131072 to bx.insert:395
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- 2355835 to bx.insert:106 (18x as many?)
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- Tried blist too, worse than bxinterval.
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- Might be algorithmic improvements to be made in Interval.py,
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like in `__and__`
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Layouts
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-------
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Current/old design has specific layouts: RawData, PrepData, RawNotchedData.
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Let's get rid of this entirely and switch to simpler data types that are
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just collections and counts of a single type. We'll still use strings
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to describe them, with format:
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type_count
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where type is "uint16", "float32", or "float64", and count is an integer.
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nilmdb.layout.named() will parse these strings into the appropriate
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handlers. For compatibility:
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"RawData" == "uint16_6"
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"RawNotchedData" == "uint16_9"
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"PrepData" == "float32_8"
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