This change turns zap.MergeToWriter() into a public func, so that it's
now directly callable from outside packages (such as from scorch's
top-level merger or persister). And, MergerToWriter() now takes input
of SegmentBases instead of Segments, so that it can now work on either
in-memory zap segments or file-based zap segments.
This is yet another stepping stone towards in-memory merging of zap
segments.
Instead of sorting docNum keys from a hashmap, this change instead
iterates from docNum 0 to N and uses an array instead of hashmap.
The array is also reused across outer loop iterations.
This optimizes for when there's a lot of structural similarity between
docs, where many/most docs have the same fields. i.e., beers,
breweries. If every doc has completely different fields, then this
change might produce worse behavior compared to the previous sparse
hashmap approach.
Instead of allocating a govarint.U64Base128Encoder in the inner loop,
allocate it just once on the outside, as it appears that it's just a
thin wrapper around binary.PutUvarint().
The zap SegmentBase struct is a refactoring of the zap Segment into
the subset of fields that are needed for read-only ops, without any
persistence related info. This allows us to use zap's optimized data
encoding as scorch's in-memory segments.
The zap Segment struct now embeds a zap SegmentBase struct, and layers
on persistence. Both the zap Segment and zap SegmentBase implement
scorch's Segment interface.
docValues are persisted along with the index,
in a columnar fashion per field with variable
sized chunking for quick look up.
-naive chunk level caching is added per field
-data part inside a chunk is snappy compressed
-metaHeader inside the chunk index the dv values
inside the uncompressed data part
-all the fields are docValue persisted in this iteration