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Papers by Oleg Bartunov

Jsonb is popular data type in postgres and there is demand from users to improve its performance.... more Jsonb is popular data type in postgres and there is demand from users to improve its performance. In particular, we want to optimise a typical pattern of using jsonb as a storage for relatively short metadata and big blobs, which is currently highly inefficient. We will discuss several approaches to improve jsonb and present results of experiments.

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2006

One of the main goals of the Virtual Observatory activities right now is to provide the simple an... more One of the main goals of the Virtual Observatory activities right now is to provide the simple and powerful access to the large existing astronomical datasets in the VO compatible way. That is why we want present the results of the recent development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalogue Access Services (SAI CAS) project – the first and the only project in Russia, which provides on-line access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. It is developed by a group of astronomers in a framework of SAI Astronet project, funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CASjobs & OpenSkyQuery projects), based on original algorithms and open-source software. We decided to build our own system providing an effective access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services including cone-searches and cross-matching of user data with hosted ca...

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JSONB in PostgreSQL is one of the main attractive feature for modern application developers, no m... more JSONB in PostgreSQL is one of the main attractive feature for modern application developers, no matter what some RDBMS purists are thinking. PG12 and upcoming PG13 complete the implementation of SQL/JSON standard, which is a great feature itself, but now it is time to think about improving the implementation in both directions - functionality and performance. For example, PostgreSQL recognized for its extensibility and it is natural to add support of user's data types and operators to JSONPATH, make use of JSONPATH to index json data, optimize access to specific key:value pairs for large json, and so on. Another important topic I want to discuss - is the single JSON data type. Historically, we have two JSON data types - textual and binary (better), the latter, called JSONB, is actually the most usable and popular data type. Now, looking forward to expected specification of JSON data type in future SQL standard, we have to decide how to make JSON data type to be generic and cover...

Json - is an ubiquitous data format, which supported in almost any popular databases. PostgreSQL ... more Json - is an ubiquitous data format, which supported in almost any popular databases. PostgreSQL was the first relational database, which received support of native textual json and very efficient binary jsonb data types. Recently published SQL 2016 standard describes the JSON data type and specifies the functions and operators to work with json in SQL, which greatly simplifies the further development of json support in PostgreSQL. We compare existing features of json/jsonb data types with proposed SQL standard and discuss the ways how we could improve json/jsonb support in PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL offers to application developers a rich support of json data type, providing known advantages of the json data model with traditional benefits of relational databases, such as declarative query language, rich query processing, transaction management providing ACID safety guarantees. However, current support of json is far from ideal, for example, json is still "foreign" data type ...

Jsonb is a popular data type in PostgreSQL, it provides the web developers an ability to work wit... more Jsonb is a popular data type in PostgreSQL, it provides the web developers an ability to work with ubiquitous json inside the database and use all the power of proven relational database. Fast querying of jsonb data is a challenge for database and PostgreSQL provides several options for indexing jsonb. We present the new way of efficient indexing of jsonb, based on improvement of indexing infrastructure. It's known, that json is a greedy data type, it may contains many auxiliary data not interesting for searching and that affects the size of index. Partial index will not helps, since it filters the rows before indexing, while we are interested in extracting of parts of jsonb. Functional indexes on specific keys could introduce too big overhead. We present an improvement of indexing infrastructure, which allows to control the index behaviour by passing parameters to operator class at index creation. For example, to index a user-defined subset of jsonb it is possible to pass to op...

When considering database indexing, many people are confused by the many Postgres indexing struct... more When considering database indexing, many people are confused by the many Postgres indexing structures available, and the many data-type-specific index lookup methods. For example, brin allows for efficient indexing of many columns. gin indexing specializes in the rapid lookup of keys with many duplicates — an area where traditional btree indexes perform poorly. This is particularly useful for json and full text searching. GiST allows for efficient indexing of two-dimensional values and range types. This talk explores the various indexing features of Postgres and when to use them. This is ideal when presented after my Non-Relational Postgres presentation.

PostgreSQL is the first relational database which recognized the need of non-atomic data types to... more PostgreSQL is the first relational database which recognized the need of non-atomic data types to support developers of applications from science to Web. Jsonb in Postgres is the attractive feature for modern application developers, who want to work with json documents without sacrificing a strong consistency and ability to use all the power of proven relational technology. Finally, SQL world has recognized the NoSQL and released the new SQL-2016 standard, which includes specification of SQL/JSON data model and path language, as well as SQL commands for storing, publishing and querying JSON data. We will present the implementation of jsonpath, the path language for querying json in PostgreSQL and discuss possible extensions, such as new indexing mode for non-atomic data, which allows to index only specified parts, for example, those parts of jsonb which matches given jsonpath[s] to opclass.

Long time ago we introduced full-text search in PostgreSQL, but since then it's development w... more Long time ago we introduced full-text search in PostgreSQL, but since then it's development was stopped. It's popular feature of postgres and it has to be enhanced and improved to match users experience and wishes. We will present several new improvements in FTS, which addresses some of them. From time to time we get messages from users about full-text search we developed many years ago. People ask about new features they would like to have in future version of FTS. Most popular were an ability to search for phrases, better support of *spell dictionaries and easier use. There were also complains about performance of FTS, comparison with other external search engines and questions about "fuzzy" search with FTS. Several people asked about ranking functions and underlying algorithms. Postgres becomes better and better with every release, but FTS even if it got benefit from index improvements, was still the same as we developed about 10 years ago. In this talk we will ...

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1993

We present hydrodynamic computations of light curves of linear type II supernovae (SNe II-L) acco... more We present hydrodynamic computations of light curves of linear type II supernovae (SNe II-L) accounting for multi-frequency-group time-dependent radiation transfer. We briefly discuss the computation method which involves implicit hydrodynamics coupled to radiation. The equation of state and the absorption coefficient including the Lyman jump describe ionization balance without the assumption of equilibrium between matter and radiation. Our set of hydrodynamical models shows that the observations of weak SNe II-L are well described by the explosion of a supergiant presupernova with a radius ∼ 600 R ○ . and with a small hydrogen envelope mass ∼ 1 − 2 M ○ .. We pay special attention to the exceptionally bight Supernova 1979C

Astronomy Letters, 2004

... 30 No. 11 2004 Page 7. THE SAI CATALOG OF SUPERNOVAE 735 3 1 0 log σ Rc 0 10 20 30 40 2 3 4 ... more ... 30 No. 11 2004 Page 7. THE SAI CATALOG OF SUPERNOVAE 735 3 1 0 log σ Rc 0 10 20 30 40 2 3 4 5 2 1 Fig. 8. Surface density of SNe of various types versus galactocentric distanceRc in kiloparsecs for the following samples: (1) IAS, (2) IIS, (3) IBCS, (4) AE, (5) AL. ...

Astronomy Letters, 2007

ABSTRACT Type Ib/c supernovae are shown to be concentrated to the inner edges of the spiral arms,... more ABSTRACT Type Ib/c supernovae are shown to be concentrated to the inner edges of the spiral arms, with the distributions for type Ib and Ic supernovae being identical. We have found differences between the distributions of type II and Ib/c supernovae relative to spiral arms, suggesting that the type Ib/c presupernovae are, on average, younger.

Astronomy Letters, 2005

We compare the radial distributions of known localized gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to the ce... more We compare the radial distributions of known localized gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to the centers of their host galaxies with the distributions of known objects in nearby galaxies (supernovae of various types, X-ray binaries), the hypothetical dark-matter profiles, and the distribution of luminous matter in galaxies in the model of an exponential disk. By comparing the moments of empirical distributions, we show that the radial distribution of GRBs in galaxies differs significantly from that of other sources. We suggest a new statistical method for comparing empirical samples that is based on estimating the number of objects within a given radius. The exponential disk profile was found to be in best agreement with the radial distribution of GRBs. The distribution of GRBs relative to the centers of their host galaxies also agrees with the dark matter profile at certain model parameters.

Arxiv preprint astro-ph/ …, 1996

Abstract. With the purpose to obtain new estimates of the rate of supernovae we joined the logs o... more Abstract. With the purpose to obtain new estimates of the rate of supernovae we joined the logs of five SN searches, namely the Asiago, Crimea, Calán-Tololo and OCA photographic surveys and the visual search by Evans. In this way we improved the SN statistics (the sam-ple ...

Rethinking JSONB PostgreSQL 9.4 has introduced JSONB, a structured format for storing JSON, wh... more Rethinking JSONB

PostgreSQL 9.4 has introduced JSONB, a structured format for storing JSON, which provides many users with the new opportunity: an effective storing and querying JSON documents inside ACID relational database. While users have notice a great jsonb performance, their feedback also reveals some hidden problems with current jsonb implementation. We want to discuss different approaches to resolve aforementioned problems and present several proof-of-conceps, so we could rethink jsonb for 9.6.

The first problem of jsonb is its size overhead (4-5 times) in comparison with storing decomposed json data in multiple plain tables, whereas binary format of jsonb has very low storage overhead with regard to a plain text (<4%). The overhead comes mainly from redundant storing of keys names, which can be quite long, in each document. One possible solution could be a persistent key dictionary cached in shared memory. Such solution has several infrastructure problems and it wouldn't work in general case. For example, one can use keys names as values and dictionary may wouldn't fit shared memory because of high cardinality of keys.

The second problem of jsonb is its querying. According to current SQLfacilities in PostgreSQL user can search for array element inside using subselect and jsonbarrayelements function. However, such queries are quite awkward and lack indexing support. Another way for querying jsonb documents is contains (@>) operator which is compact and has indexing support. Also jsquery is very suitable using in check constraints over jsonb, which could validates document schema. For example, constraint "CHECK(jb @@ 'a is numeric and b is string and c = *'::jsquery)" insures that value of key "a" is integer, value of key "b" is string and key "c" exists.

However, jsquery is not extendable, while we need an elegant and extendable way to query json documents with indexing support. We propose to solve this problem by introducing special SQL constructions (ANYELEMENT, ANYVALUE, ANYKEY, ALL) to query json documents. Extendability comes from the ability to use any SQL-expression inside proposed constructions. Indexing suport for such queries is a challenge for PostgreSQL infrastructure, but we think it's feasible.

Another missing feature of jsonb is lack of suitable way to update it. Users have to implement kluges to do it. It's possible to develop a set of functions to provide flexible way to update jsonb or extend current SQL syntax to implement elegant syntax similar to ones for array update.

Our goal is to discuss different approaches to resolve aforementioned problems and present several proof-of-concepts, so we could rethink jsonb for 9.6.

This talk presents set of GIN advances in PostgreSQL 9.4 and further which brings GIN to new leve... more This talk presents set of GIN advances in PostgreSQL 9.4 and further which brings GIN to new level of performance and extendability. Most important advances are: posting lists compression, fast-scan algorithm, storing additional information and index-based ranking. This talk presents set of GIN advances: Compression posting lists. Indexes become 2 times smaller without any work in opclass. pg_upgrade is supported, old indexes will be recompressed on the fly. Fast scan algorithm. Fast scan allows GIN to skip parts of large posting trees during index scan. It dramatically improve performance of hstore and json search operators as well as FTS "frequentterm & rareterm" case. In order to use this improvement three-state logic support required in "consistent" opclass method. Storing additional (opclass defined) information in posting lists. Usage of additional information for filtering enables new features for GIN opclasses: better phrase search, better array similarit...

An efficient indexing of nested structures We present a prototype of new access method, heavily b... more An efficient indexing of nested structures We present a prototype of new access method, heavily based on GIN and optimized for efficient indexing of nested structures like hstore and json(b). Introducing of the nested hstore and jsonb in PostgreSQL brought new challenge to the developers, namely, an efficient indexing of hierarchical keys. Those keys are consist of duplicated strings, which made index to be uselessly huge if store key-value pairs independently. We propose to replace btree data structure, which used in GIN to index keys, by digital tree. To do this in 'right way', we would like to experiment with hybrid access method based on of SP-GiST and GIN. This is a first step in making GIN more flexible to support richer set of queries. In principle, one could be able to use other than btree data structure to index not just keys, but also the posting lists.

Nested hstore with arrays support. We present a prototype of nested hstore data type with arrays ... more Nested hstore with arrays support. We present a prototype of nested hstore data type with arrays support. We consider the new hstore as a step forward true json data type. Recently, PostgreSQL got json data type, which basically is a string storage with validity checking for stored values and some related functions. To be a real data type, it has to have a binary representation, development of which could be a big project if started from scratch. Hstore is a popular data type, we developed years ago to facilitate working with semi-structured data in PostgreSQL. It is mature and widely used data type with indexing support. Our idea is to extend hstore to be nested (value can be also hstore) data type and add support of arrays, so its binary representation can be shared with json. We present a working prototype of a new hstore data type and discuss some design and implementation issues.