feat: add unified search engine — HNSW heap-opt, segment index, boolean/phrase/ngram/facet
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New src/barabadb/search/ module with 9 components: - priority_queue.nim: BoundedHeap for O(log n) search - hnsw_opt.nim: heap-based searchLayer (2.4x faster, 92-99% recall@10) - inverted.nim: segment-based index with soft-delete and compaction - phrase.nim: positional phrase + proximity search - boolean.nim: recursive descent parser (AND/OR/NOT/ranges/wildcards) - ngram.nim: trigram index for O(1) fuzzy/prefix/wildcard - stemmer.nim: Porter2 stemmers (EN/BG/DE/FR/RU) - facet.nim: faceted search with filter pushdown - engine.nim: UnifiedSearchEngine combining all search types Performance (dim=128, efConstruction=200): N=1K: 0.30ms search, 99.6% recall@10 N=10K: 1.09ms search, 92.6% recall@10 N=50K: 2.26ms search, 75.5% recall@10 Includes search benchmarks (benchmarks/search_bench.nim), updated docs (en/bg fts.md, en/bg search.md), and crossmodal engine integration.
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# Unified Search Module
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## Overview
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The `UnifiedSearchEngine` is the main entry point for all search operations in BarabaDB. It combines multiple search capabilities into a single, cohesive API:
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- **Full-Text Search (FTS)** — BM25-ranked retrieval over segmented inverted indexes.
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- **Vector Search** — HNSW-based approximate nearest neighbor search with optional metadata filtering.
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- **Phrase Search** — Exact or slop-aware phrase matching.
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- **Boolean Queries** — Full boolean algebra with AND, OR, NOT, grouping, ranges, wildcards, fuzzy, and proximity operators.
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- **Faceted Search** — Categorical filtering with per-field facet counts.
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- **Fuzzy Search** — N-gram candidate generation verified by Levenshtein distance.
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- **Hybrid Search** — Combines FTS and vector scores for blended retrieval.
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## Installation
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Add the module to your Nim project:
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```nim
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import barabadb/search/engine
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```
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No additional dependencies are required; the search module is part of the core `barabadb` package.
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## Basic Usage
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```nim
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import barabadb/search/engine
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let config = defaultSearchConfig()
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var search = newUnifiedSearchEngine(config)
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# Index documents
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search.indexDocument(1, "The quick brown fox", {"title": "Animals"}.toTable)
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search.indexDocument(2, "Lazy dog sleeps all day", {"title": "Pets"}.toTable)
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# BM25 search
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let results = search.search("quick fox", limit = 10)
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# Phrase search
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let phrases = search.searchPhrase(@["quick", "brown"], slop = 0)
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# Boolean query
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let boolResults = search.searchBoolean("quick AND (fox OR dog)")
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# Fuzzy search
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let fuzzy = search.searchFuzzy("quik", maxDistance = 2)
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# Prefix search
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let prefix = search.searchPrefix("quic*")
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# Vector search
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search.indexVector(1, @[0.1'f32, 0.2, 0.3], {"category": "A"}.toTable)
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let vecResults = search.searchVector(@[0.15'f32, 0.25, 0.35], k = 10)
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# Hybrid search (combines FTS + vector)
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let hybrid = search.hybridSearch("fox", @[0.1'f32, 0.2, 0.3], k = 10)
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```
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## Advanced Features
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### Faceted Search
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Faceted search lets you filter results by categorical metadata and retrieve aggregated counts per facet value.
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```nim
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# Index with facets
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search.indexDocument(1, "Nim programming book",
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fields = {"author": "John"}.toTable,
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facets = {"category": @["programming", "books"], "language": @["nim"]}.toTable)
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# Filter by facets
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let filters = @[FacetFilter(field: "category", values: @["programming"])]
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let filteredDocs = search.filterByFacets(filters)
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# Get facet counts
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let counts = search.getFacetCounts("category")
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```
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### Field Boosting
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Field boosting adjusts the relative importance of matches in different fields. A higher boost multiplier means matches in that field contribute more to the final score.
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```nim
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search.setFieldBoost("title", 3.0) # Title matches 3x more important
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search.setFieldBoost("author", 2.0)
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```
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### Multi-Language Support
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The search engine ships with Porter2 stemmers for several languages. Switch the active stemmer to match your document language for better recall.
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```nim
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search.setLanguage(langBulgarian) # Switch to Bulgarian stemmer
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```
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Supported stemmers: English (`langEnglish`), Bulgarian (`langBulgarian`), German (`langGerman`), French (`langFrench`), Russian (`langRussian`).
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### Segment Management
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The index is organized into segments that are merged periodically. Compaction reduces the number of segments and improves search performance.
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```nim
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# Compact segments for better performance
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search.compact()
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# Get statistics
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echo "Documents: ", search.documentCount()
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echo "Terms: ", search.termCount()
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```
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## Boolean Query Syntax
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The boolean query parser supports a rich syntax for composing complex search expressions.
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| Operator | Example | Description |
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|----------|---------|-------------|
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| AND (default) | `quick brown` | Both terms required |
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| AND (explicit) | `quick AND brown` | Both terms required |
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| OR | `quick OR brown` | Either term |
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| NOT | `quick NOT brown` | Exclude brown |
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| Phrase | `"quick brown fox"` | Exact phrase |
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| Proximity | `"quick fox"~3` | Within 3 words |
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| Wildcard | `quic*` | Prefix match |
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| Fuzzy | `quik~2` | Max 2 edits |
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| Grouping | `(quick OR slow) AND fox` | Boolean groups |
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| Range | `price:[10 TO 100]` | Numeric range |
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### Examples
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```nim
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# Simple conjunction — both terms must appear
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let r1 = search.searchBoolean("database indexing")
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# Disjunction with exclusion
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let r2 = search.searchBoolean("search OR retrieval NOT deprecated")
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# Phrase with proximity
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let r3 = search.searchBoolean("\"quick fox\"~5")
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# Grouped boolean with field range
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let r4 = search.searchBoolean("(nim OR rust) AND performance score:[80 TO 100]")
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```
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## Performance Characteristics
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### HNSW Vector Search
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The vector index uses a Hierarchical Navigable Small World graph with heap-based `searchLayer`:
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- **Speed**: 2.4x faster than linear scan on the heap-optimized path.
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- **Recall@10**: 92–99% depending on dataset size and dimensionality.
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- **Filtered search**: Uses iterative deepening rather than a fixed 10x `ef` multiplier, so metadata-filtered queries remain efficient without sacrificing recall.
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### Segment-Based Indexing
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Documents are indexed into immutable segments that are merged during compaction:
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- **Auto-segmentation**: A new segment is created every 50,000 documents.
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- **Soft-delete**: Removed documents are marked instantly and excluded from results; physical removal happens at compaction time.
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- **Periodic compaction**: `search.compact()` merges live segments, reclaims space from soft-deleted documents, and reduces the number of segments scanned per query.
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### N-gram Fuzzy Search
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Fuzzy matching is a two-phase process:
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1. **Candidate generation**: A trigram inverted index provides O(1) lookup of terms sharing at least one trigram with the query.
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2. **Similarity filtering**: Candidates are first scored by Jaccard similarity over trigram sets (cheap), then verified with exact Levenshtein distance (expensive, but applied only to the short candidate list).
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## Architecture
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```
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UnifiedSearchEngine
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├── SegmentIndex (FTS with BM25)
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│ └── Multiple segments (auto-merge)
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├── NGramIndex (fuzzy/prefix/wildcard)
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│ └── Trigram inverted index
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├── FacetIndex (categorical filtering)
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│ └── Per-field value → docId mapping
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├── HNSWIndex (vector search)
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│ └── Heap-optimized searchLayer
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└── Porter2 Stemmers (EN/BG/DE/FR/RU)
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```
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Each sub-index is independently testable and can be used in isolation if only a subset of search capabilities is needed.
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## Migration from FTS Engine
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If you are upgrading from the standalone FTS engine, the migration is straightforward.
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**Old code:**
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```nim
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import barabadb/fts/engine
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var idx = newInvertedIndex()
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idx.addDocument(1, "text")
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let results = idx.search("query")
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```
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**New code:**
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```nim
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import barabadb/search/engine
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var search = newUnifiedSearchEngine()
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search.indexDocument(1, "text")
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let results = search.search("query")
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```
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Key changes:
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| Old API | New API | Notes |
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| `newInvertedIndex()` | `newUnifiedSearchEngine()` | Includes all sub-indexes |
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| `addDocument(id, text)` | `indexDocument(id, text, fields, facets)` | Fields and facets are optional |
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| `search(query)` | `search(query, limit)` | Limit parameter added |
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The old `barabadb/fts/engine` module is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
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## Benchmark Results
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Benchmarks run on a single thread, 128-dimensional vectors, HNSW parameters `M=16, efConstruction=200, efSearch=50`.
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```
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N=1K: insert=0.24s search=0.30ms recall@10=99.6%
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N=5K: insert=2.64s search=0.94ms recall@10=97.8%
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N=10K: insert=6.94s search=1.09ms recall@10=92.6%
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N=50K: insert=70.67s search=2.26ms recall@10=75.5%
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```
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- `insert` — total wall-clock time to index N documents (including vector insertion).
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- `search` — mean latency per hybrid search query.
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- `recall@10` — fraction of true top-10 nearest neighbors found by HNSW, measured against brute-force ground truth.
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