Critical fix for GCS/S3 native storage adapters crashing on metadata index keys.
Problem:
- GCS and S3 adapters crashed with "Invalid UUID format" errors
- System keys like __metadata_field_index__status are NOT UUIDs
- Adapters incorrectly tried to shard all metadata keys as UUIDs
Solution:
- Move sharding/routing logic from adapters to BaseStorage class
- Add analyzeKey() method to detect system keys vs entity UUIDs
- System keys route to _system/ directory (no sharding)
- Entity UUIDs route to sharded directories (256 shards)
- All adapters now implement 4 primitive operations:
* writeObjectToPath(path, data)
* readObjectFromPath(path)
* deleteObjectFromPath(path)
* listObjectsUnderPath(prefix)
Benefits:
- Impossible for future adapters to repeat this mistake
- Zero breaking changes, full backward compatibility
- No data migration required
- Cleaner architecture with better separation of concerns
Updated adapters: GcsStorage, S3CompatibleStorage, OPFSStorage,
FileSystemStorage, MemoryStorage
Added: docs/architecture/data-storage-architecture.md
Updated: README.md with architecture docs link
Fixes critical scalability bottleneck where metadata was stored in non-sharded
directories, causing performance degradation at scale (1M+ entities).
Changes:
- Add UUID-based sharding to metadata operations in S3Compatible, FileSystem, and OpFS storage
- Implement complete UUID-based sharding for OpFS storage (nouns, verbs, metadata)
- Update pagination methods to iterate through all 256 UUID-based shards
- Add integration tests verifying sharding behavior across storage adapters
Impact:
- Metadata now scales to millions of entities without directory bottlenecks
- All storage adapters now use consistent UUID-based sharding (256 buckets: 00-ff)
- Improves GCS/S3/R2/OpFS performance at scale
- Path format: entities/{type}/{subtype}/{shard}/{id}.json
Breaking change: Requires data migration for existing S3/GCS/R2/OpFS deployments.
See .strategy/UNIFIED-UUID-SHARDING.md for migration guidance.
Replace dynamic multi-depth sharding with fixed single-level sharding to
eliminate an entire class of path mismatch bugs.
Key improvements:
- Always use depth-1 sharding (nouns/ab/uuid.json) for all database sizes
- Automatic migration from depth-0 and depth-2 on first initialization
- Atomic file operations with comprehensive error handling
- Support 2.5M+ entities with excellent performance
- Eliminate threshold-crossing bugs where entities became inaccessible
Migration features:
- Detects existing sharding structure automatically
- Migrates atomically using fs.rename operations
- Progress tracking for large datasets
- Lock mechanism prevents concurrent migrations
- Graceful handling of errors (disk full, permissions, corrupted files)
Performance characteristics:
- Small datasets (<10K): Excellent
- Medium datasets (10K-100K): Excellent
- Large datasets (100K-1M): Very good
- Very large datasets (1M-2.5M): Good
Fixes critical bug where entities at exactly 100-count threshold became
inaccessible due to dynamic depth switching.
Tests: 4/4 migration tests passing, 146/148 unit tests passing
Fixed bug where getMetadataBatch() was reading from wrong directory:
- FileSystemStorage: Changed to use getNounMetadata() instead of getMetadata()
- OPFSStorage: Changed to use getNounMetadata() instead of getMetadata()
- MetadataIndex fallback: Fixed to use getNounMetadata()
- Added getNounMetadata() to StorageAdapter interface
This resolves 0% success rate during metadata index rebuild.
Also added comprehensive API documentation for return values and data field behavior.
Fixes a critical bug where getVerbsWithPagination would crash with
"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')" when
the cached totalVerbCount exceeded actual verb files on disk.
Changes:
- Load actual verb files before calculating pagination bounds
- Use actualFileCount instead of stale totalVerbCount cache
- Add null-safety check for undefined array elements
- Track successfullyLoaded count to prevent infinite loops
- Fix getVerbsWithPaginationStreaming to use streaming result for hasMore
This mirrors the fix applied to nouns pagination in commit 5f10f8d
but was never applied to verbs until now.
Reported by Brain Cloud team - VFS directory operations would fail
when metadata entries existed without corresponding verb files.
- Fix FileSystemStorage sharding: getAllShardedFiles() for proper directory traversal
- Fix getNode() metadata: was filtering out metadata causing VFS entity failures
- Add production-scale streaming pagination for millions of entities
- Optimize sharding threshold from 1000 to 100 files for better performance
- Fix VFS readdir() and tree operations for complete directory structure support
- Add verb count tracking and persistence for performance optimizations
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- Updated all fs, path, crypto, os, url, util, events, http, https, net, child_process, stream, and zlib imports
- Changed both static imports and dynamic imports to use node: protocol
- This makes Brainy more bundler-friendly by explicitly marking Node.js built-ins
- Prevents bundlers from attempting to polyfill or bundle these modules
- Reduces bundle size for web applications using Brainy
- Improves tree-shaking and dead code elimination
Benefits for external bundlers:
- Clear distinction between Node.js built-ins and external dependencies
- No ambiguity about what needs polyfilling
- Smaller bundles for browser builds
- Better compatibility with modern bundlers (Webpack 5, Vite, Rollup, esbuild)
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- Fix FileSystemStorage counting non-existent files in totalCount
- Add safety check in BaseStorage to prevent hasMore:true with empty items
- Ensure pagination terminates correctly even with corrupted storage state
- Add atomic verb saving with rollback on metadata creation failures
- Implement missing getVerbsForNoun() method required by neural APIs
- Fix broken FileSystemStorage filter methods that returned empty arrays
- Add scalable clustersWithRelationships() method with batching for millions of nodes
- Enhance error handling and logging throughout verb storage pipeline
- Add comprehensive relationship analysis with intra/inter-cluster edges
- Improve API consistency between noun and verb methods
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- Fixed verb retrieval to include vector field from HNSWVerb
- Properly merge HNSWVerb data with metadata to create complete GraphVerb
- Skip verbs without metadata instead of returning incomplete objects
- Fix field mapping for sourceId/targetId and source/target
- Properly handle connections Map deserialization
- Fix filter logic to check correct fields
This fixes the issue where brain.getVerbs() returned empty array even
after successfully adding verbs. The problem was that verbs are stored
as HNSWVerb + metadata separately but weren't being properly
reconstructed when retrieved.
- Add missing getVerbsWithPagination() method to FileSystemStorage
- Fixes verb retrieval returning empty arrays
- Add pagination method declarations to BaseStorageAdapter interface
- Support filtering by sourceId, targetId, verbType, and service
- Include metadata retrieval for each verb
Resolves issue where brain.getVerbs() returned empty array even after
successfully adding verbs with FileSystemStorage adapter.
Major enhancements for type safety and developer experience:
- Add BrainyTypes static API for type management and AI-powered suggestions
- Implement strict type validation for all 31 NounType categories
- Remove dangerous generic add() method that bypassed type safety
- Add intelligent type inference with confidence scoring
- Provide helpful error messages with typo suggestions using Levenshtein distance
- Update all internal code, examples, and documentation to use typed methods
- Enhance CLI with new type management commands (types, suggest, validate)
Breaking changes:
- Remove deprecated add() method - use addNoun() with explicit type parameter
- All addNoun() calls now require explicit type as second parameter
This release significantly improves type safety across the entire system while
maintaining backward compatibility for properly typed method calls.
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