Implement UnionArray logical_nulls (#6303)

* fix: implement UnionArray logical_nulls

* fix: allow false positive clippy warning

* fix: replace unstable functions

* improve docs, perf, validate sparse, revert msrv

* simplify benches

* fine tune fast path threshold

* update docs

* fix fast path check, improve perf and docs

* fix: remove rust 1.65 code

* simplify mask_sparse_

* apply suggestions from review

* Update arrow-array/src/array/union_array.rs

Co-authored-by: wiedld <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: wiedld <[email protected]>

arrow-arith/src/boolean.rs

@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ pub fn is_not_null(input: &dyn Array) -> Result<BooleanArray, ArrowError> {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    use arrow_buffer::ScalarBuffer;
+    use arrow_schema::{DataType, Field, UnionFields};
+
     use super::*;
     use std::sync::Arc;
 
@@ -911,4 +914,61 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(expected, res);
         assert!(res.nulls().is_none());
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_dense_union_is_null() {
+        // union of [{A=1}, {A=}, {B=3.2}, {B=}, {C="a"}, {C=}]
+        let int_array = Int32Array::from(vec![Some(1), None]);
+        let float_array = Float64Array::from(vec![Some(3.2), None]);
+        let str_array = StringArray::from(vec![Some("a"), None]);
+        let type_ids = [0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2].into_iter().collect::<ScalarBuffer<i8>>();
+        let offsets = [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]
+            .into_iter()
+            .collect::<ScalarBuffer<i32>>();
+
+        let children = vec![
+            Arc::new(int_array) as Arc<dyn Array>,
+            Arc::new(float_array),
+            Arc::new(str_array),
+        ];
+
+        let array = UnionArray::try_new(union_fields(), type_ids, Some(offsets), children).unwrap();
+
+        let result = is_null(&array).unwrap();
+
+        let expected = &BooleanArray::from(vec![false, true, false, true, false, true]);
+        assert_eq!(expected, &result);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_sparse_union_is_null() {
+        // union of [{A=1}, {A=}, {B=3.2}, {B=}, {C="a"}, {C=}]
+        let int_array = Int32Array::from(vec![Some(1), None, None, None, None, None]);
+        let float_array = Float64Array::from(vec![None, None, Some(3.2), None, None, None]);
+        let str_array = StringArray::from(vec![None, None, None, None, Some("a"), None]);
+        let type_ids = [0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2].into_iter().collect::<ScalarBuffer<i8>>();
+
+        let children = vec![
+            Arc::new(int_array) as Arc<dyn Array>,
+            Arc::new(float_array),
+            Arc::new(str_array),
+        ];
+
+        let array = UnionArray::try_new(union_fields(), type_ids, None, children).unwrap();
+
+        let result = is_null(&array).unwrap();
+
+        let expected = &BooleanArray::from(vec![false, true, false, true, false, true]);
+        assert_eq!(expected, &result);
+    }
+
+    fn union_fields() -> UnionFields {
+        [
+            (0, Arc::new(Field::new("A", DataType::Int32, true))),
+            (1, Arc::new(Field::new("B", DataType::Float64, true))),
+            (2, Arc::new(Field::new("C", DataType::Utf8, true))),
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect()
+    }
 }

arrow-array/Cargo.toml

@@ -75,3 +75,7 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "decimal_overflow"
 harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "union_array"
+harness = false

arrow-array/benches/union_array.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use std::{
+    iter::{repeat, repeat_with},
+    sync::Arc,
+};
+
+use arrow_array::{Array, ArrayRef, Int32Array, UnionArray};
+use arrow_buffer::{NullBuffer, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_schema::{DataType, Field, UnionFields};
+use criterion::*;
+use rand::{thread_rng, Rng};
+
+fn array_with_nulls() -> ArrayRef {
+    let mut rng = thread_rng();
+
+    let values = ScalarBuffer::from_iter(repeat_with(|| rng.gen()).take(4096));
+
+    // nulls with at least one null and one valid
+    let nulls: NullBuffer = [true, false]
+        .into_iter()
+        .chain(repeat_with(|| rng.gen()))
+        .take(4096)
+        .collect();
+
+    Arc::new(Int32Array::new(values.clone(), Some(nulls)))
+}
+
+fn array_without_nulls() -> ArrayRef {
+    let mut rng = thread_rng();
+
+    let values = ScalarBuffer::from_iter(repeat_with(|| rng.gen()).take(4096));
+
+    Arc::new(Int32Array::new(values.clone(), None))
+}
+
+fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    for with_nulls in 1..12 {
+        for without_nulls in [0, 1, 10] {
+            c.bench_function(
+                &format!("union logical nulls 4096 {with_nulls} children with nulls, {without_nulls} without nulls"),
+                |b| {
+                    let type_ids = 0..with_nulls+without_nulls;
+
+                    let fields = UnionFields::new(
+                        type_ids.clone(),
+                        type_ids.clone().map(|i| Field::new(format!("f{i}"), DataType::Int32, true)),
+                    );
+
+                    let array = UnionArray::try_new(
+                        fields,
+                        type_ids.cycle().take(4096).collect(),
+                        None,
+                        repeat(array_with_nulls())
+                            .take(with_nulls as usize)
+                            .chain(repeat(array_without_nulls()).take(without_nulls as usize))
+                            .collect(),
+                    )
+                    .unwrap();
+
+                    b.iter(|| black_box(array.logical_nulls()))
+                },
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
+criterion_main!(benches);

arrow-array/src/array/mod.rs

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ pub trait Array: std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync {
     ///
     /// The physical representation is efficient, but is sometimes non intuitive
     /// for certain array types such as those with nullable child arrays like
-    /// [`DictionaryArray::values`] or [`RunArray::values`], or without a
+    /// [`DictionaryArray::values`], [`RunArray::values`] or [`UnionArray`], or without a
     /// null buffer, such as [`NullArray`].
     ///
     /// To determine if each element of such an array is "logically" null,
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ pub trait Array: std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync {
     /// * [`DictionaryArray`] where [`DictionaryArray::values`] contains nulls
     /// * [`RunArray`] where [`RunArray::values`] contains nulls
     /// * [`NullArray`] where all indices are nulls
+    /// * [`UnionArray`] where the selected values contains nulls
     ///
     /// In these cases a logical [`NullBuffer`] will be computed, encoding the
     /// logical nullability of these arrays, beyond what is encoded in
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ pub trait Array: std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync {
     ///
     /// Note: For performance reasons, this method returns nullability solely as determined by the
     /// null buffer. This difference can lead to surprising results, for example, [`NullArray::is_null`] always
-    /// returns `false` as the array lacks a null buffer. Similarly [`DictionaryArray`] and [`RunArray`] may
+    /// returns `false` as the array lacks a null buffer. Similarly [`DictionaryArray`], [`RunArray`] and [`UnionArray`] may
     /// encode nullability in their children. See [`Self::logical_nulls`] for more information.
     ///
     /// # Example: