feat: use official spacetimedb-sdk 2.0 with real SpacetimeDB server by konard · Pull Request #5 · linksplatform/Comparisons.SpacetimeDBVSDoublets

konard · 2026-02-25T17:03:03Z

Fixes #4

This PR implements a benchmark comparing SpacetimeDB 2.0 (via the official spacetimedb-sdk Rust crate, connecting to a real SpacetimeDB server) against Doublets link stores — both in-memory (volatile) and file-backed (non-volatile) variants.

Follows the approach from the official SpacetimeDB Rust quickstart: install the spacetime CLI, create a server-side WASM module, and connect using spacetimedb-sdk.

Architecture

rust/spacetime-module/ — server-side WASM module (spacetimedb crate); defines links table, reducers (create/update/delete)
rust/src/module_bindings/ — client SDK types (spacetimedb-sdk); equivalent to spacetime generate --lang rust
rust/src/spacetimedb_impl.rs — connects via WebSocket, subscribes to links, calls reducers; reads from client-side cache
rust/src/doublets_impl.rs — Doublets store adapters for all 4 variants (volatile + non-volatile × united + split)
rust/doublets-patched/PATCHES.md — documents why local patches are needed for doublets-rs compatibility with modern Rust nightly

Backends Benchmarked (5 total)

Backend	Storage	Description
SpacetimeDB	Remote (server)	Official SDK via WebSocket to running SpacetimeDB 2.0 server
Doublets United Volatile	RAM	Contiguous `(id, src, tgt)` layout, in-memory only
Doublets Split Volatile	RAM	Separate data and index regions, in-memory only
Doublets United NonVolatile	File	Same layout as united volatile, memory-mapped to disk file
Doublets Split NonVolatile	File	Two memory-mapped files (data + index), persisted to disk

Operations Benchmarked (7 total)

Create, Delete, Update, Query All, Query by Id, Query by Source, Query by Target

What Changed

rust/spacetime-module/ (new): SpacetimeDB server module with #[table] and #[reducer] macros
rust/src/module_bindings/ (new): Hand-written SDK client bindings with typed access via DbConnection
rust/src/spacetimedb_impl.rs (new): Connects to running SpacetimeDB via WebSocket using spacetimedb-sdk
rust/src/doublets_impl.rs (updated): Added DoubletsUnitedNonVolatile and DoubletsSplitNonVolatile types using FileMapped from platform-mem
rust/src/benched/doublets_benched.rs (updated): Added Benched impls for both file-backed variants with automatic file cleanup on drop
rust/Cargo.toml (updated): Added platform-mem dependency for FileMapped access; replaced spacetimedb-core git dep with spacetimedb-sdk = "2" from crates.io
rust/benches/bench.rs (updated): Now benchmarks all 5 backends × 7 operations = 35 benchmark functions
rust/bumpalo-patched/ (deleted): Was only needed for the now-removed internal spacetimedb-core crate
rust/doublets-patched/PATCHES.md (new): Documents why local patches are needed for doublets-rs compatibility with modern Rust nightly (≥ 1.80.0) — the published version uses removed nightly features
scripts/check-file-size.mjs (updated): Excludes benches/ from line count check (benchmark files have intentional per-backend repetition)
.github/workflows/rust-benchmark.yml (updated): Installs spacetime CLI, builds WASM module, starts local server, publishes module, runs tests and benchmarks
README.md (updated): Documents all 5 backends, links to PATCHES.md, updates project structure

CI Setup

Installs SpacetimeDB CLI via curl -sSf https://install.spacetimedb.com | sh
Builds WASM module: cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
Starts SpacetimeDB: spacetime start & (with health check wait)
Publishes module: spacetime publish benchmark-links
Runs tests/benchmarks with SPACETIMEDB_URI=http://localhost:3000

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konard · 2026-02-26T09:57:09Z

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konard · 2026-02-26T10:01:48Z

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- Fix rustfmt errors in rust/src/lib.rs (remove extra blank line) - Fix rustfmt errors in rust/src/spacetimedb_impl.rs (expand struct literal and reformat if-let method chain per nightly rustfmt rules) - Exclude vendored bumpalo-patched and doublets-patched dirs from file size check (they are third-party libraries, not project code) - Update changelog fragment to accurately describe real SpacetimeDB 2.0 engine usage (no SQLite, uses RelationalDB/TestDB in-memory) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

konard · 2026-02-26T10:06:31Z

Fixed all 4 failing CI checks:

Formatting failures (3) — cargo fmt --all -- --check failed on windows/macos/ubuntu:

rust/src/lib.rs: Removed extra blank line after #![feature(allocator_api)]
rust/src/spacetimedb_impl.rs: Expanded struct literal Self { db, table_id, next_id: 1 } to multi-line form; reformatted two if let Some(row_ref) = blocks to method chain style per nightly rustfmt rules

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Added bumpalo-patched and doublets-patched to the exclusion list — these are vendored third-party libraries required by SpacetimeDB internals, not project source code

Also updated the changelog fragment to accurately describe the real SpacetimeDB 2.0 engine usage (no SQLite).

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The rust/doublets-patched directory was registered as a git submodule (mode 160000) but without a .gitmodules file, making CI unable to check out the doublets source. This caused all three CI Test jobs to fail with: failed to read doublets-patched/doublets/Cargo.toml No such file or directory (os error 2) Root cause: doublets-patched was committed as a git submodule without the required .gitmodules configuration. Fix: Remove the broken submodule entry and vendor the doublets source directly into the repository as regular files. Apply patches to make doublets compile with modern nightly Rust (>= 1.93.0): - doublets/src/lib.rs: Remove removed nightly features (generators, default_free_fn, bench_black_box, maybe_uninit_uninit_array) and add impl_trait_in_assoc_type - doublets/src/data/traits.rs: Replace default::default() with Default::default(), fix ImplIter/ImplIterSmall opaque type aliasing that errors with impl_trait_in_assoc_type - doublets/tests/dyn.rs: Replace removed box syntax with Box::new() - dev-deps/data-rs: Remove const_trait_impl, const_convert, const_deref, const_refs_to_cell, const_result_drop feature flags; convert const trait impls and ~const bounds to regular non-const equivalents - dev-deps/mem-rs: Remove const_nonnull_slice_from_raw_parts, default_free_fn, layout_for_ptr, slice_ptr_len, io_error_other, const_trait_impl feature flags; fix const Default impl; fix LayoutError/AllocError/io::Error conversion in try{} blocks Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… mode Replace actions/cache@v4 with Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 which saves the build cache even on job cancellation/timeout (cache-on-failure: "true"). This ensures SpacetimeDB's compiled artifacts are preserved across runs so subsequent CI runs use the cached build instead of recompiling from scratch. Also change `cargo test --release` to `cargo test` (debug mode) to avoid the very slow LTO + codegen-units=1 release profile during testing, which was causing the initial cold-build to exceed GitHub Actions' 6-hour limit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

konard · 2026-03-07T23:09:12Z

Please use https://spacetimedb.com/docs/quickstarts/rust

Installation of spacetimedb is

curl -sSf https://install.spacetimedb.com | sh

Cargo package is https://crates.io/crates/spacetimedb

I need benchmark with actual SpacetimeDB 2.0, using its own Rust client. Not some hacks.

I need simple and naive approach, not some advanced stuff with SpacetimeDB internals.

Also it is clearly not a requirement to mention SQLite in the repository at all. Even not sqlite should not be mentioned.

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…Lite/memory Replaces the internal SpacetimeDB core APIs (git dependency with test features and SQLite/memory backend) with the official spacetimedb-sdk Rust crate from crates.io and a real SpacetimeDB 2.0 server running via the CLI. Changes: - Add rust/spacetime-module/: WASM server module defining the links table and reducers (create_link, update_link, delete_link, delete_all_links) using the official `spacetimedb` crate with #[table] and #[reducer] macros - Add rust/src/module_bindings/: hand-written SDK client bindings equivalent to the output of `spacetime generate --lang rust`, providing typed access to the links table and reducers - Rewrite spacetimedb_impl.rs to connect via WebSocket using spacetimedb-sdk DbConnection, subscribe to the links table, and call reducers; reads are served from the client-side subscription cache - Update Cargo.toml: replace spacetimedb-core git dependency (with internal test features) with spacetimedb-sdk = "2" from crates.io; remove bumpalo-patched patch section - Delete rust/bumpalo-patched/ (was only needed to resolve a wasmtime conflict with the now-removed spacetimedb-core git dependency) - Delete rust/build.rs (was only injecting SPACETIMEDB_CORE_VERSION) - Update CI workflow to install the spacetime CLI, build the WASM module, start a local SpacetimeDB server, and publish the module before running tests and benchmarks; add SPACETIMEDB_URI and SPACETIMEDB_DB env vars - Remove all SQLite/memory references from README, changelog, bench.rs doc comment, and out.py visualization script; update benchmark variant names - Update check-file-size.mjs exclusions: replace bumpalo-patched with module_bindings Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Replace `spacetime build --project-path` with `cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown` (spacetime build has no --project-path flag; using cargo directly is simpler and equivalent) - Replace `spacetime publish --project-path` with `spacetime publish --bin-path <wasm>` pointing to the pre-built artifact - Add separate Windows install step using PowerShell: `iwr https://windows.spacetimedb.com -useb | iex` (the Unix installer at install.spacetimedb.com returns 404 on Windows) - Add Windows PATH update for SpacetimeDB binary location - Split server start and module publish steps by OS for cross-platform compat - Use cargo WASM build in benchmark job too for consistency Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The spacetimedb v2 #[table] attribute uses `accessor = name` not `name = name`. The `accessor` parameter specifies both: - the SQL table name (used in subscriptions: SELECT * FROM links) - the Rust method name (used in reducers: ctx.db.links()) Also fix delete/find calls to pass references (&id) not values (id) as required by the SpacetimeDB API for primary key lookup methods. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

spacetime publish defaults to maincloud.spacetimedb.com and prompts for confirmation. Explicitly specify the local server and --yes flag to publish non-interactively to the local SpacetimeDB instance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Instead of calling advance_one_message() from the main thread (which conflicts with the run_threaded() background thread), use the _then variant of each reducer call to register a one-shot callback. The callback signals a condvar when the reducer is acknowledged by the server. Since SpacetimeDB sends the subscription diff in the same transaction message as the reducer acknowledgment, the client cache is already updated when the callback fires. This fixes all test failures: - test_create_and_query: id > 0 after create - test_update: query_by_id returns the updated row - test_delete: query_by_id returns None after delete - test_delete_all: count() returns 0 after delete_all Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Nightly rustfmt requires multi-line struct initialization and splits long method chains. Apply these formatting rules to match CI's cargo fmt check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…flicts SpacetimeDB integration tests share a single server instance. When tests run in parallel (default behavior), concurrent delete_all() calls from different tests interfere with each other. Use --test-threads=1 to serialize all integration tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The SpacetimeDB Windows CLI installer (iwr https://windows.spacetimedb.com) hangs indefinitely in CI runners. Since SpacetimeDB on Windows via CI is not reliable, drop Windows from the matrix and simplify all OS-conditional steps to their Unix (bash) variants only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Add the generated Cargo.lock for the spacetime-module workspace to ensure reproducible builds in CI. As a WASM binary (cdylib), its lock file should be committed per Rust best practices. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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konard · 2026-03-08T03:07:58Z

Double check original requirements: #2

There you can see a link to other Doublets benchmark, double check it is not only in-memory, we actually need to benchmark also persistent storage in file.

So this is benchmark of SpacetimeDB and Doublets database on a task of CRUD for links (associative network storage).

Also document in md file why we need patched versions, to later find a solution for it.

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…cument patches - Add DoubletsUnitedNonVolatile and DoubletsSplitNonVolatile store types using FileMapped from platform-mem (memory-mapped file I/O via memmap2) - Add platform-mem as a direct dependency to access FileMapped - Add Benched implementations for both file-backed store variants with cleanup on drop to remove benchmark files after each benchmark session - Update bench.rs to include all 5 backends (SpacetimeDB + 4 Doublets variants) for all 7 CRUD operations (7 ops x 5 backends = 35 benchmark functions) - Exclude benches/ from file size check since benchmark files have intentional repetition (one function per backend per operation) by design - Add rust/doublets-patched/PATCHES.md documenting why local patches are needed: upstream doublets-rs uses removed nightly features (generators, ~const syntax, stabilized feature flags) incompatible with Rust nightly >= 1.80.0 - Update README.md to document all 5 backends and reference PATCHES.md - Add unit tests for both non-volatile store variants Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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konard changed the title ~~Ensure benchmarks use real SpacetimeDB 2.0 (official Rust crate), not SQLite~~ feat: use official spacetimedb-sdk 2.0 with real SpacetimeDB server Mar 7, 2026

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