Summary:
This is a redesign of the API for RocksJava comparators with the aim of improving performance. It also simplifies the class hierarchy.
**NOTE**: This breaks backwards compatibility for existing 3rd party Comparators implemented in Java... so we need to consider carefully which release branches this goes into.
Previously when implementing a comparator in Java the developer had a choice of subclassing either `DirectComparator` or `Comparator` which would use direct and non-direct byte-buffers resepectively (via `DirectSlice` and `Slice`).
In this redesign there we have eliminated the overhead of using the Java Slice classes, and just use `ByteBuffer`s. The `ComparatorOptions` supplied when constructing a Comparator allow you to choose between direct and non-direct byte buffers by setting `useDirect`.
In addition, the `ComparatorOptions` now allow you to choose whether a ByteBuffer is reused over multiple comparator calls, by setting `maxReusedBufferSize > 0`. When buffers are reused, ComparatorOptions provides a choice of mutex type by setting `useAdaptiveMutex`.
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[JMH benchmarks previously indicated](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6241#issue-356398306) that the difference between C++ and Java for implementing a comparator was ~7x slowdown in Java.
With these changes, when reusing buffers and guarding access to them via mutexes the slowdown is approximately the same. However, these changes offer a new facility to not reuse mutextes, which reduces the slowdown to ~5.5x in Java. We also offer a `thread_local` mechanism for reusing buffers, which reduces slowdown to ~5.2x in Java (closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4425).
These changes also form a good base for further optimisation work such as further JNI lookup caching, and JNI critical.
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These numbers were captured without jemalloc. With jemalloc, the performance improves for all tests, and the Java slowdown reduces to between 4.8x and 5.x.
```
ComparatorBenchmarks.put native_bytewise thrpt 25 124483.795 ± 2032.443 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put native_reverse_bytewise thrpt 25 114414.536 ± 3486.156 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 17228.250 ± 1288.546 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_non-adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 16035.865 ± 1248.099 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_thread-local thrpt 25 21571.500 ± 871.521 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_direct_reused-64_adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 23613.773 ± 8465.660 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_direct_reused-64_non-adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 16768.172 ± 5618.489 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_direct_reused-64_thread-local thrpt 25 23921.164 ± 8734.742 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_non-direct_no-reuse thrpt 25 17899.684 ± 839.679 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_bytewise_direct_no-reuse thrpt 25 22148.316 ± 1215.527 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 11311.126 ± 820.602 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_non-adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 11421.311 ± 807.210 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_non-direct_reused-64_thread-local thrpt 25 11554.005 ± 960.556 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_direct_reused-64_adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 22960.523 ± 1673.421 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_direct_reused-64_non-adaptive-mutex thrpt 25 18293.317 ± 1434.601 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_direct_reused-64_thread-local thrpt 25 24479.361 ± 2157.306 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_non-direct_no-reuse thrpt 25 7942.286 ± 626.170 ops/s
ComparatorBenchmarks.put java_reverse_bytewise_direct_no-reuse thrpt 25 11781.955 ± 1019.843 ops/s
```
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6252
Differential Revision: D19331064
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 1f3b794e6a14162b2c3ffb943e8c0e64a0c03738
Note: This uses a specific build of RocksDB that is set in the <version> element of the dependencies section of the pom.xml file. If you are testing local changes you should build and install a SNAPSHOT version of rocksdbjni, and update the pom.xml of rocksdbjni-jmh file to test with this.
Adam Retter
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