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Path Based Merkelized Radix Trie

TODOs

  • Remove special casing around the root node from the physical structure of the hashed tree.
  • Analyze performance impact of needing to skip intermediate nodes when generating range and change proofs
    • Consider moving nodes with values to a separate db prefix
  • Analyze performance of using database snapshots rather than in-memory history
  • Improve intermediate node regeneration after ungraceful shutdown by reusing successfully written subtrees

Introduction

The Merkle Trie is a data structure that allows efficient and secure verification of the contents. It is a combination of a Merkle Tree and a Radix Trie.

The trie contains Merkle Nodes, which store key/value and children information.

Each Merkle Node represents a key path into the trie. It stores the key, the value (if one exists), its ID, and the IDs of its children nodes. The children have keys that contain the current node's key path as a prefix, and the index of each child indicates the next nibble in that child's key. For example, if we have two nodes, Node 1 with key path 0x91A and Node 2 with key path 0x91A4, Node 2 is stored in index 0x4 of Node 1's children (since 0x4 is the first value after the common prefix).

To reduce the depth of nodes in the trie, a Merkle Node utilizes path compression. Instead of having a long chain of nodes each containing only a single nibble of the key, we can "compress" the path by recording additional key information with each of a node's children. For example, if we have three nodes, Node 1 with key path 0x91A, Node 2 with key path 0x91A4, and Node 3 with key path 0x91A5132, then Node 1 has a key of 0x91A. Node 2 is stored at index 0x4 of Node 1's children since 4 is the next nibble in Node 2's key after skipping the common nibbles from Node 1's key. Node 3 is stored at index 0x5 of Node 1's children. Rather than have extra nodes for the remainder of Node 3's key, we instead store the rest of the key (132) in Node 1's children info.

+-----------------------------------+
| Merkle Node                       | 
|                                   |
| ID: 0x0131                        |  an id representing the current node, derived from the node's value and all children ids
| Key: 0x91                         |  prefix of the key path, representing the location of the node in the trie
| Value: 0x00                       |  the value, if one exists, that is stored at the key path (pathPrefix + compressedPath)
| Children:                         |  a map of children node ids for any nodes in the trie that have this node's key path as a prefix 
|   0: [:0x00542F]                  |  child 0 represents a node with key 0x910 with ID 0x00542F
|   1: [0x432:0xA0561C]             |  child 1 represents a node with key 0x911432 with ID 0xA0561C
|   ...                             |
|   15: [0x9A67B:0x02FB093]         |  child 15 represents a node with key 0x91F9A67B with ID 0x02FB093
+-----------------------------------+

Design choices

[]byte copying

Nodes contain a []byte which represents its value. This slice should never be edited internally. This allows usage without having to make copies of it for safety. Anytime these values leave the library, for example in Get, GetValue, GetProof, GetRangeProof, etc, they need to be copied into a new slice to prevent edits made outside of the library from being reflected in the DB/TrieViews.

Single node type

A Merkle Node holds the IDs of its children, its value, as well as any path extension. This simplifies some logic and allows all of the data about a node to be loaded in a single database read. This trades off a small amount of storage efficiency (some fields may be nil but are still stored for every node).

Validity

A trieView is built atop another trie, and that trie could change at any point. If it does, all descendants of the trie will be marked invalid before the edit of the trie occurs. If an operation is performed on an invalid trie, an ErrInvalid error will be returned instead of the expected result. When a view is committed, all of its sibling views (the views that share the same parent) are marked invalid and any child views of the view have their parent updated to exclude any committed views between them and the db.

Locking

Database has a RWMutex named lock. Its read operations don't store data in a map, so a read lock suffices for read operations. Database has a Mutex named commitLock. It enforces that only a single view/batch is attempting to commit to the database at one time. lock is insufficient because there is a period of view preparation where read access should still be allowed, followed by a period where a full write lock is needed. The commitLock ensures that only a single goroutine makes the transition from read->write.

A trieView is built atop another trie, which may be the underlying Database or another trieView. It's important to guarantee atomicity/consistency of trie operations. That is, if a view method is executing, the views/database underneath the view shouldn't be changing. To prevent this, we need to use locking.

trieView has a RWMutex named lock that's held when methods that access the trie's structure are executing. It is responsible for ensuring that writing/reading from a trieView or from any ancestor is safe. It also has a RWMutex named validityTrackingLock that is held during methods that change the view's validity, tracking of child views' validity, or of the trieView parent trie. This lock ensures that writing/reading from trieView or any of its descendants is safe. The Commit function also grabs the Database's commitLock lock. This is the only trieView method that modifies the underlying Database. If an ancestor is modified during this time, the commit will error with ErrInvalid.

In some of Database's methods, we create a trieView and call unexported methods on it without locking it. We do so because the exported counterpart of the method read locks the Database, which is already locked. This pattern is safe because the Database is locked, so no data under the view is changing, and nobody else has a reference to the view, so there can't be any concurrent access.

To prevent deadlocks, trieView and Database never acquire the lock of any descendant views that are built atop it. That is, locking is always done from a view down to the underlying Database, never the other way around. The validityTrackingLock goes the opposite way. Views can validityTrackingLock their children, but not their ancestors. Because of this, any function that takes the validityTrackingLock should avoid taking the lock as this will likely trigger a deadlock. Keeping lock solely in the ancestor direction and validityTrackingLock solely in the descendant direction prevents deadlocks from occurring.

Documentation

Index

Constants

View Source 
const (
	NodeBranchFactor = 16
	HashLength       = 32
)
View Source 
const EmptyPath path = ""
View Source 
const (
	RootPath = EmptyPath
)

Variables

View Source 
var (
	ErrStartRootNotFound = errors.New("start root is not before end root in history")
	ErrRootIDNotPresent  = errors.New("root id is not present in history")
)
View Source 
var (
	ErrInvalidProof                = errors.New("proof obtained an invalid root ID")
	ErrInvalidMaxLength            = errors.New("expected max length to be > 0")
	ErrNonIncreasingValues         = errors.New("keys sent are not in increasing order")
	ErrStateFromOutsideOfRange     = errors.New("state key falls outside of the start->end range")
	ErrNonIncreasingProofNodes     = errors.New("each proof node key must be a strict prefix of the next")
	ErrExtraProofNodes             = errors.New("extra proof nodes in path")
	ErrDataInMissingRootProof      = errors.New("there should be no state or deleted keys in a change proof that had a missing root")
	ErrNoMerkleProof               = errors.New("empty key response must include merkle proof")
	ErrShouldJustBeRoot            = errors.New("end proof should only contain root")
	ErrNoStartProof                = errors.New("no start proof")
	ErrNoEndProof                  = errors.New("no end proof")
	ErrNoProof                     = errors.New("proof has no nodes")
	ErrProofNodeNotForKey          = errors.New("the provided node has a key that is not a prefix of the specified key")
	ErrProofValueDoesntMatch       = errors.New("the provided value does not match the proof node for the provided key's value")
	ErrProofNodeHasUnincludedValue = errors.New("the provided proof has a value for a key within the range that is not present in the provided key/values")
)
View Source 
var (
	ErrCommitted          = errors.New("view has been committed")
	ErrInvalid            = errors.New("the trie this view was based on has changed, rendering this view invalid")
	ErrOddLengthWithValue = errors.New(
		"the underlying db only supports whole number of byte keys, so cannot record changes with odd nibble length",
	)
	ErrGetPathToFailure = errors.New("GetPathTo failed to return the closest node")
	ErrStartAfterEnd    = errors.New("start key > end key")
	ErrViewIsNotAChild  = errors.New("passed in view is required to be a child of the current view")
	ErrNoValidRoot      = errors.New("a valid root was not provided to the trieView constructor")
)
View Source 
var (
	Codec, Version = newCodec()
)

Functions

This section is empty.

Types

type ChangeProof 

type ChangeProof struct {
	// If false, the node that created this doesn't have
	// sufficient history to generate a change proof and
	// all other fields must be empty.
	// Otherwise at least one other field is non-empty.
	HadRootsInHistory bool
	// A proof that the smallest key in the requested range does/doesn't
	// exist in the trie with the requested start root.
	// Empty if no lower bound on the requested range was given.
	// Note that this may not be an entire proof -- nodes are omitted if
	// they are also in [EndProof].
	StartProof []ProofNode
	// A proof that the largest key in [KeyValues] and [DeletedKeys]
	// does/doesn't exist in the trie with the requested start root.
	// Empty iff no upper bound on the requested range was given
	// and [KeyValues] and [DeletedKeys] are empty.
	EndProof []ProofNode
	// A subset of key-values that were added or had their values modified
	// between the requested start root (exclusive) and the requested
	// end root (inclusive).
	// Sorted by increasing key.
	KeyValues []KeyValue
	// A subset of keys that were removed from the trie between the requested
	// start root (exclusive) and the requested end root (inclusive).
	// Sorted by increasing key.
	DeletedKeys [][]byte
}

func (*ChangeProof) Empty 

func (proof *ChangeProof) Empty() bool

func (*ChangeProof) Verify 

func (proof *ChangeProof) Verify(
	ctx context.Context,
	db *Database,
	start []byte,
	end []byte,
	expectedEndRootID ids.ID,
) error

Returns nil iff all of the following hold:

  • [start] <= [end].
  • [proof] is non-empty iff [proof.HadRootsInHistory].
  • All keys in [proof.KeyValues] and [proof.DeletedKeys] are in [start, end]. If [start] is empty, all keys are considered > [start]. If [end] is empty, all keys are considered < [end].
  • [proof.KeyValues] and [proof.DeletedKeys] are sorted in order of increasing key.
  • [proof.StartProof] and [proof.EndProof] are well-formed.
  • When the keys in [proof.KeyValues] are added to [db] and the keys in [proof.DeletedKeys] are removed from [db], the root ID of [db] is [expectedEndRootID].

Assumes [db.lock] isn't held.

type Config 

type Config struct {
	// The number of changes to the database that we store in memory in order to
	// serve change proofs.
	HistoryLength int
	NodeCacheSize int
	// If [Reg] is nil, metrics are collected locally but not exported through
	// Prometheus.
	// This may be useful for testing.
	Reg    prometheus.Registerer
	Tracer trace.Tracer
}

type Database 

type Database struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Can only be edited by committing changes from a trieView.

func New 

func New(ctx context.Context, db database.Database, config Config) (*Database, error)

New returns a new merkle database.

func (*Database) Close 

func (db *Database) Close() error

func (*Database) CommitChangeProof 

func (db *Database) CommitChangeProof(ctx context.Context, proof *ChangeProof) error

Commits the key/value pairs within the [proof] to the db.

func (*Database) CommitRangeProof 

func (db *Database) CommitRangeProof(ctx context.Context, start []byte, proof *RangeProof) error

Commits the key/value pairs within the [proof] to the db. [start] is the smallest key in the range this [proof] covers.

func (*Database) CommitToDB added in v1.9.12 

func (*Database) CommitToDB(context.Context) error

CommitToDB is a no-op for db since it is already in sync with itself. This exists to satisfy the TrieView interface.

func (*Database) CommitToParent added in v1.9.12 

func (*Database) CommitToParent(context.Context) error

CommitToParent is a no-op for the db because it has no parent

func (*Database) Compact 

func (db *Database) Compact(start []byte, limit []byte) error

func (*Database) Delete 

func (db *Database) Delete(key []byte) error

func (*Database) Get 

func (db *Database) Get(key []byte) ([]byte, error)

func (*Database) GetChangeProof 

func (db *Database) GetChangeProof(
	ctx context.Context,
	startRootID ids.ID,
	endRootID ids.ID,
	start []byte,
	end []byte,
	maxLength int,
) (*ChangeProof, error)

Returns a proof for a subset of the key/value changes in key range [start, end] that occurred between [startRootID] and [endRootID]. Returns at most [maxLength] key/value pairs.

func (*Database) GetMerkleRoot 

func (db *Database) GetMerkleRoot(ctx context.Context) (ids.ID, error)

Returns the ID of the root node of the merkle trie.

func (*Database) GetProof 

func (db *Database) GetProof(ctx context.Context, key []byte) (*Proof, error)

Returns a proof of the existence/non-existence of [key] in this trie.

func (*Database) GetRangeProof 

func (db *Database) GetRangeProof(
	ctx context.Context,
	start,
	end []byte,
	maxLength int,
) (*RangeProof, error)

Returns a proof for the key/value pairs in this trie within the range [start, end].

func (*Database) GetRangeProofAtRoot 

func (db *Database) GetRangeProofAtRoot(
	ctx context.Context,
	rootID ids.ID,
	start,
	end []byte,
	maxLength int,
) (*RangeProof, error)

Returns a proof for the key/value pairs in this trie within the range [start, end] when the root of the trie was [rootID].

func (*Database) GetValue 

func (db *Database) GetValue(ctx context.Context, key []byte) ([]byte, error)

GetValue returns the value associated with [key]. Returns database.ErrNotFound if it doesn't exist.

func (*Database) GetValues 

func (db *Database) GetValues(ctx context.Context, keys [][]byte) ([][]byte, []error)

func (*Database) Has 

func (db *Database) Has(k []byte) (bool, error)

func (*Database) HealthCheck 

func (db *Database) HealthCheck(ctx context.Context) (interface{}, error)

func (*Database) Insert 

func (db *Database) Insert(ctx context.Context, k, v []byte) error

func (*Database) NewBatch 

func (db *Database) NewBatch() database.Batch

func (*Database) NewIterator 

func (db *Database) NewIterator() database.Iterator

func (*Database) NewIteratorWithPrefix 

func (db *Database) NewIteratorWithPrefix(prefix []byte) database.Iterator

func (*Database) NewIteratorWithStart 

func (db *Database) NewIteratorWithStart(start []byte) database.Iterator

func (*Database) NewIteratorWithStartAndPrefix 

func (db *Database) NewIteratorWithStartAndPrefix(start, prefix []byte) database.Iterator

func (*Database) NewPreallocatedView 

func (db *Database) NewPreallocatedView(estimatedSize int) (TrieView, error)

Returns a new view preallocated to hold at least [estimatedSize] value changes at a time. If more changes are made, additional memory will be allocated. The returned view is added to [db.childViews]. Assumes [db.lock] isn't held.

func (*Database) NewView 

func (db *Database) NewView() (TrieView, error)

Returns a new view on top of this trie. Changes made to the view will only be reflected in the original trie if Commit is called. Assumes [db.lock] isn't held.

func (*Database) Put 

func (db *Database) Put(k, v []byte) error

Inserts the key/value pair into the db.

func (*Database) Remove 

func (db *Database) Remove(ctx context.Context, key []byte) error

type Decoder 

type Decoder interface {
	DecodeProof(bytes []byte, p *Proof) (uint16, error)
	DecodeChangeProof(bytes []byte, p *ChangeProof) (uint16, error)
	DecodeRangeProof(bytes []byte, p *RangeProof) (uint16, error)
	// contains filtered or unexported methods
}

type Encoder 

type Encoder interface {
	EncodeProof(version uint16, p *Proof) ([]byte, error)
	EncodeChangeProof(version uint16, p *ChangeProof) ([]byte, error)
	EncodeRangeProof(version uint16, p *RangeProof) ([]byte, error)
	// contains filtered or unexported methods
}

type EncoderDecoder 

type EncoderDecoder interface {
	Encoder
	Decoder
}

EncoderDecoder defines the interface needed by merkleDB to marshal and unmarshal relevant types.

type KeyValue 

type KeyValue struct {
	Key   []byte
	Value []byte
}

type Maybe 

type Maybe[T any] struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Maybe T = Some T | Nothing. A data wrapper that allows values to be something [Some T] or nothing Nothing. Maybe is used to wrap types: * That can't be represented by nil. * That use nil as a valid value instead of an indicator of a missing value. For more info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type

func Clone added in v1.9.12 

func Clone(m Maybe[[]byte]) Maybe[[]byte]

func Nothing 

func Nothing[T any]() Maybe[T]

Returns a new Maybe[T] with no value.

func Some 

func Some[T any](val T) Maybe[T]

Returns a new Maybe[T] with the value val.

func (Maybe[T]) IsNothing 

func (m Maybe[T]) IsNothing() bool

Returns true iff [m] has a value.

func (Maybe[T]) Value 

func (m Maybe[T]) Value() T

Returns the value of [m].

type Proof 

type Proof struct {
	// Nodes in the proof path from root --> target key
	// (or node that would be where key is if it doesn't exist).
	// Must always be non-empty (i.e. have the root node).
	Path []ProofNode
	// This is a proof that [key] exists/doesn't exist.
	Key []byte

	// Nothing if [Key] isn't in the trie.
	// Otherwise the value corresponding to [Key].
	Value Maybe[[]byte]
}

An inclusion/exclustion proof of a key.

func (*Proof) Verify 

func (proof *Proof) Verify(ctx context.Context, expectedRootID ids.ID) error

Returns nil if the trie given in [proof] has root [expectedRootID]. That is, this is a valid proof that [proof.Key] exists/doesn't exist in the trie with root [expectedRootID].

type ProofNode 

type ProofNode struct {
	KeyPath SerializedPath
	// Nothing if this is an intermediate node.
	// The value in this node if its length < [HashLen].
	// The hash of the value in this node otherwise.
	ValueOrHash Maybe[[]byte]
	Children    map[byte]ids.ID
}

type RangeProof 

type RangeProof struct {
	// A proof that the smallest key in the requested range does/doesn't exist.
	// Note that this may not be an entire proof -- nodes are omitted if
	// they are also in [EndProof].
	StartProof []ProofNode

	// A proof of the greatest key in [KeyValues], or, if this proof contains
	// no [KeyValues], just the root.
	// Empty if the request for this range proof gave no upper bound
	// on the range to fetch, unless this proof contains no [KeyValues]
	// and [StartProof] is empty.
	EndProof []ProofNode

	// This proof proves that the key-value pairs in [KeyValues] are in the trie.
	// Sorted by increasing key.
	KeyValues []KeyValue
}

A proof that a given set of key-value pairs are in a trie.

func (*RangeProof) Verify 

func (proof *RangeProof) Verify(
	ctx context.Context,
	start []byte,
	end []byte,
	expectedRootID ids.ID,
) error

Returns nil iff all the following hold:

  • [start] <= [end].
  • [proof] is non-empty.
  • All keys in [proof.KeyValues] are in the range [start, end]. If [start] is empty, all keys are considered > [start]. If [end] is empty, all keys are considered < [end].
  • [proof.KeyValues] is sorted by increasing key.
  • [proof.StartProof] and [proof.EndProof] are well-formed.
  • One of the following holds: [end] and [proof.EndProof] are empty. [proof.StartProof], [start], [end], and [proof.KeyValues] are empty and [proof.EndProof] is just the root. [end] is non-empty and [proof.EndProof] is a valid proof of a key <= [end].
  • [expectedRootID] is the root of the trie containing the given key-value pairs and start/end proofs.

type ReadOnlyTrie 

type ReadOnlyTrie interface {
	// GetValue gets the value associated with the specified key
	// database.ErrNotFound if the key is not present
	GetValue(ctx context.Context, key []byte) ([]byte, error)

	// GetValues gets the values associated with the specified keys
	// database.ErrNotFound if the key is not present
	GetValues(ctx context.Context, keys [][]byte) ([][]byte, []error)

	// GetMerkleRoot returns the merkle root of the Trie
	GetMerkleRoot(ctx context.Context) (ids.ID, error)

	// GetProof generates a proof of the value associated with a particular key, or a proof of its absence from the trie
	GetProof(ctx context.Context, bytesPath []byte) (*Proof, error)

	// GetRangeProof generates a proof of up to maxLength smallest key/values with keys between start and end
	GetRangeProof(ctx context.Context, start, end []byte, maxLength int) (*RangeProof, error)
	// contains filtered or unexported methods
}

type SerializedPath 

type SerializedPath struct {
	NibbleLength int
	Value        []byte
}

SerializedPath contains a path from the trie. The trie branch factor is 16, so the path may contain an odd number of nibbles. If it did contain an odd number of nibbles, the last 4 bits of the last byte should be discarded.

func (SerializedPath) AppendNibble 

func (s SerializedPath) AppendNibble(nibble byte) SerializedPath

func (SerializedPath) Equal 

func (s SerializedPath) Equal(other SerializedPath) bool

func (SerializedPath) HasPrefix 

func (s SerializedPath) HasPrefix(prefix SerializedPath) bool

Returns true iff [prefix] is a prefix of [s] or equal to it.

func (SerializedPath) HasStrictPrefix 

func (s SerializedPath) HasStrictPrefix(prefix SerializedPath) bool

Returns true iff [prefix] is a prefix of [s] but not equal to it.

func (SerializedPath) NibbleVal 

func (s SerializedPath) NibbleVal(nibbleIndex int) byte

type Trie 

type Trie interface {
	ReadOnlyTrie

	// Remove will delete a key from the Trie
	Remove(ctx context.Context, key []byte) error

	// NewPreallocatedView returns a new view on top of this Trie with space allocated for changes
	NewPreallocatedView(estimatedChanges int) (TrieView, error)

	// NewView returns a new view on top of this Trie
	NewView() (TrieView, error)

	// Insert a key/value pair into the Trie
	Insert(ctx context.Context, key, value []byte) error
}

type TrieView 

type TrieView interface {
	Trie

	// CommitToDB takes the changes of this trie and commits them down the view stack
	// until all changes in the stack commit to the database
	// Takes the DB commit lock
	CommitToDB(ctx context.Context) error

	// CommitToParent takes changes of this TrieView and commits them to its parent Trie
	// Takes the DB commit lock
	CommitToParent(ctx context.Context) error
	// contains filtered or unexported methods
}

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