mt-manager

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🌳 *MerkleTries Manager - High-Performance In-Memory Multi-MerkleTree Manager with disk-based snapshots

A high-performance, production-ready Merkle Tree implementation in Go with support for multiple trees, atomic snapshots, and advanced hashing algorithms. Designed for blockchain applications, trading systems, and distributed databases.

✨ Features

Core Functionality

• 🚀 High Performance: Lock-free operations with sync.Map for concurrent access
• 🔐 Cryptographic Hashing: Support only Blake3 at now
• 🌲 Multiple Trees: Manage multiple independent Merkle trees with a single manager
• ⚡ Batch Operations: Efficient batch insert/update/delete operations
• 🎯 Zero-Copy Design: Minimal allocations and memory overhead

Advanced Features

• 📸 Atomic Snapshots: Create consistent snapshots across multiple trees
• 💾 Persistent Storage: PebbleDB-backed snapshot storage with compression
• 🔄 Lock-Free Snapshots: Snapshot creation with minimal blocking (~80µs)
• 🔁 Async Operations: Fire-and-forget asynchronous snapshot creation
• 📊 Performance Metrics: Built-in metrics for monitoring and debugging

Tree Manager

• 🌐 Global Root Hash: Compute unified hash across all managed trees
• 🔍 Tree Discovery: List and query all managed trees
• 🎛️ Configurable: Flexible configuration for different use cases
• 🧹 Auto Cleanup: Automatic resource management and cleanup

📦 Installation

go get github.com/aleksraiden/mt-manager

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/aleksraiden/mt-manager"
)

// Define your data structure
type Account struct {
    ID      uint64
    Balance uint64
    Nonce   uint64
}

func (a *Account) Key() []byte {
    key := make([]byte, 8)
    binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(key[:], a.ID)
    return key
}

func (a *Account) Serialize() []byte {
    buf := make([]byte, 24)
    binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buf[0:8], a.ID)
    binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buf[8:16], a.Balance)
    binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buf[16:24], a.Nonce)
    return buf
}

func main() {
    // Create a tree manager
    mgr := merkletree.NewManager[*Account](merkletree.DefaultConfig())
    
    // Create or get a tree
    accountsTree := mgr.GetOrCreateTree("accounts")
    
    // Insert data
    account := &Account{ID: 1, Balance: 1000, Nonce: 0}
    accountsTree.Insert(account)
    
    // Get data
    retrieved, exists := accountsTree.Get(account.Key())
    if exists {
        fmt.Printf("Account balance: %d\n", retrieved.Balance)
    }
    
    // Compute tree root
    root := accountsTree.Root()
    fmt.Printf("Tree root: %x\n", root)
    
    // Compute global root across all trees
    globalRoot := mgr.ComputeGlobalRoot()
    fmt.Printf("Global root: %x\n", globalRoot)
}

Snapshots

// Create manager with snapshot support
mgr, err := merkletree.NewManagerWithSnapshot[*Account](
    merkletree.DefaultConfig(),
    "./snapshots.db",
)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
defer mgr.CloseSnapshots()

// Insert data into multiple trees
accountsTree := mgr.GetOrCreateTree("accounts")
ordersTree := mgr.GetOrCreateTree("orders")

accountsTree.Insert(&Account{ID: 1, Balance: 1000, Nonce: 0})
ordersTree.Insert(&Order{ID: 100, Price: 50})

// Create synchronous snapshot
version, err := mgr.CreateSnapshot()
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Snapshot created: %x\n", version)

// Create asynchronous snapshot (non-blocking)
resultChan := mgr.CreateSnapshotAsync()
// ... continue working ...
result := <-resultChan
if result.Error != nil {
    log.Printf("Snapshot failed: %v", result.Error)
} else {
    fmt.Printf("Async snapshot: %x (took %v)\n", result.Version[:8], result.Duration)
}

// Load snapshot
if err := mgr.LoadFromSnapshot(&version); err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

// Get snapshot metadata
meta, err := mgr.GetSnapshotMetadata()
fmt.Printf("Total snapshots: %d, Size: %d bytes\n", meta.Count, meta.TotalSize)

Batch Operations

tree := mgr.GetOrCreateTree("accounts")

// Batch insert
accounts := []*Account{
    {ID: 1, Balance: 1000, Nonce: 0},
    {ID: 2, Balance: 2000, Nonce: 1},
    {ID: 3, Balance: 3000, Nonce: 2},
}
tree.InsertBatch(accounts)

// Batch delete
keys := []byte{[^8]
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2},
}
tree.DeleteBatch(keys)

📊 Performance Benchmarks

Scalability Tests

Dataset Sizes

🧪 Running Tests

Run All Tests

# Basic tests
go test ./... -v

# With race detector
go test ./... -race -v

# With coverage
go test ./... -cover -coverprofile=coverage.out
go tool cover -html=coverage.out

Run Benchmarks

# All benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem

# Specific benchmarks
go test -bench=BenchmarkTree -benchmem
go test -bench=BenchmarkSnapshot -benchmem
go test -bench=BenchmarkHash -benchmem

# Extended benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem -benchtime=10s

# CPU profiling
go test -bench=BenchmarkTreeInsert -cpuprofile=cpu.prof
go tool pprof cpu.prof

Snapshot Tests

# Snapshot functionality
go test -v -run=TestSnapshot

# Snapshot concurrency
go test -v -run=TestSnapshotConcurrent -race

# Snapshot stress test
go test -v -run=TestSnapshotStress -timeout=30m

Stress Tests

# High concurrency stress test
go test -v -run=TestConcurrentStress -timeout=10m

# Memory stress test
go test -v -run=TestMemoryStress -timeout=15m

🏗️ Architecture

Core Components

merkletree/
├── tree.go              # Core Merkle tree implementation
├── node.go              # Tree node structure
├── manager.go           # Multi-tree manager
├── snapshot.go          # Snapshot manager (lock-free)
├── snapshot_storage.go  # PebbleDB storage backend
├── hash.go              # Pluggable hash algorithms
└── config.go            # Configuration options

Design Principles

1. Lock-Free Reads: Using sync.Map for concurrent access without locks
2. Minimal Blocking: Snapshot capture blocks TreeManager for only ~80µs
3. Batch Optimization: PebbleDB batch writes with Snappy compression
4. Cache Efficiency: Tree root caching to avoid recomputation
5. Memory Efficiency: Lazy hash computation and pruning support

⚙️ Configuration

config := &merkletree.Config{
    MaxDepth:     3,                          // Maximum tree depth
    HashFunc:     merkletree.HashFuncBlake3,  // Hash algorithm
    EnablePruning: false,                     // Enable node pruning
    CacheSize:    1000,                       // Root hash cache size
}

mgr := merkletree.NewManager[*Account](config)

Hash Functions

• HashFuncBlake3 - Default, fastest (recommended)
• HashFuncSHA256 - SHA-256 for compatibility
• HashFuncKeccak256 - Ethereum-compatible

📈 Current Version: v0.1.0

✅ Implemented Features

• Basic Merkle tree operations (Insert/Get/Delete)
• Multi-tree manager with global root
• Lock-free concurrent access
• Batch operations
• Multiple hash algorithm support
• Atomic snapshots with PebbleDB
• Asynchronous snapshot creation
• Snapshot metadata and versioning
• Tree traversal and iteration
• Comprehensive test suite
• Performance benchmarks

🗺️ Roadmap

v0.2.0 - Transactions

• Atomic transactions across multiple trees
• Transaction isolation levels
• Optimistic concurrency control
• Transaction timeout and cleanup
• MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control)

v0.3.0 - Advanced Arity

• 16-ary tree implementation (hex-tree)
• 256-ary tree implementation (byte-tree)
• Sparse node representation for memory efficiency
• Hybrid adaptive arity switching
• Depth-based arity optimization

v0.4.0 - Performance Optimizations

• SIMD optimizations for hashing
• Memory-mapped file support
• Compressed sparse row for sparse nodes
• CPU cache prefetching
• Zero-copy serialization

v0.5.0 - Advanced Features

• Merkle proof generation and verification
• Incremental snapshot updates (delta snapshots)
• Snapshot compression policies
• Tree diff and merge operations
• Remote snapshot replication

v1.0.0 - Production Ready

• Full documentation and examples
• Performance tuning guide
• Production deployment guide
• Monitoring and metrics dashboard
• Backward compatibility guarantees

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Development Setup

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/aleksraiden/mt-manager.git
cd merkletree

# Install dependencies
go mod download

# Run tests
go test ./... -v

# Run benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem

Code Style

• Follow standard Go conventions
• Run go fmt before committing
• Ensure all tests pass
• Add tests for new features

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by Ethereum's Merkle Patricia Tree
• Uses PebbleDB for persistent storage
• Uses Blake3 for fast cryptographic hashing
• Uses MessagePack for efficient serialization

📧 Contact

• GitHub: @yourusername
• Issues: GitHub Issues

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