| Name |
Meaning |
| Abstract* |
An incomplete class used for dynamic polymorphism (i.e., OOP with run-time resolved virtual methods). It has pure virtual methods that need to be implemented by subclasses. |
| Base* |
An incomplete class used for static polymorphism (i.e., compile-time resolved templates). It implements methods shared by all implementations. Mostly, it is used so that we have a non-templated superclass, which can be stored in, e.g., a vector. |
| *Node |
An entry in a Logical Query Plan, for example a Predicate or a Join. |
| *Operator |
An entry in a Physical Query Plan, for example a Table Scan or a Sort-Merge Join. Currently, each operator is the physical representation of exactly one node. This is not a hard limitation. |
We limit the use of abbreviations to very few cases. Unless an abbreviation is listed here or is something that we can expect every Computer Science Graduate to know (e.g., CSV, NUMA), do not use it in interfaces, code, or documentation.
| Name |
Short for |
| ART |
Adaptive Radix Tree (only for internal use of that data structure) |
| cid |
Commit-ID (used for MVCC) |
| dict_segment |
Dictionary Segment |
| expr |
Expression, but only ok if used for an expression as described below |
| impl |
Implementation, mainly used for the Pimpl Pattern |
| *_it |
Iterator (in variable names) |
| LQP |
Logical Query Plan |
| MVCC |
Multi-Version Concurrency Control |
| PMR |
Polymorphic Memory Resource (see types.hpp) |
| PQP |
Physical Query Plan |
| PosList |
Position List (as used in ReferenceSegment) |
| ref_segment |
Reference Segment |
| tid |
Transaction ID (used for MVCC) |
| val_segment |
Value Segment |
This explains high-level terms that have a specific meaning within Hyrise and that are used all over the code base. We do not want to document every class name here.
| Name |
Description |
| Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) |
The old name of the Logical Query Plan. It was renamed when the LQP stopped being a tree and became a DAG. Shoot this old term on sight. |
| Column |
A column within a table (e.g., customer.name) |
| Chunk |
Each table in Hyrise is horizontally partitioned into one or more chunks. |
| Segment Type |
Type of a class inheriting from BaseSegment (mostly used as template parameter name) |
| Data Type |
One of the currently five supported column data types (int, long, float, double, std::string) |
| Expression |
Any type of SQL expression that is either logical or creates a new column (e.g., col_a = 3, col_a + 4). |
| Iterable |
A good way to iterate over different types of segments. See segment_iterables.hpp to start. |
| Logical Query Plan |
The logical representation of a query plan. It includes nodes like "Predicate" (a filter) or "Join" but does not describe what implementation is used for executing these. |
| Node (LQP) |
A node in a logical query plan. |
| Node (NUMA) |
A NUMA memory node (usually a CPU socket). |
| Operator |
A class that usually takes 0-2 input tables and creates one output table. Example: TableScan, Join, Insert. |
| Physical Query Plan |
The physical representation of a query plan. It holds the actual operators used to execute the query. Usually created by a translator from the LQP. |
| Rule |
A rule in our optimizer. For instance, pushing all predicates as far down as possible is a rule. |
| Segment |
The part of a column that is stored in a chunk. E.g., the column customer.name with 10 entries might be split over two chunks, with 5 entries in two segments |
| Task |
Everything that can be scheduled. |