feat: Enable Vector database and retrieve_online_documents API

Makefile

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ test-python-universal-postgres-offline:
 test-python-universal-postgres-online:
 	PYTHONPATH='.' \
 		FULL_REPO_CONFIGS_MODULE=sdk.python.feast.infra.online_stores.contrib.postgres_repo_configuration \
-		PYTEST_PLUGINS=sdk.python.feast.infra.offline_stores.contrib.postgres_offline_store.tests \
+		PYTEST_PLUGINS=sdk.python.tests.integration.feature_repos.universal.online_store.postgres \
 		python -m pytest -n 8 --integration \
  			-k "not test_universal_cli and \
  				not test_go_feature_server and \

sdk/python/feast/feature_store.py

@@ -1690,6 +1690,72 @@ def _get_online_features(
         )
         return OnlineResponse(online_features_response)
 
+    @log_exceptions_and_usage
+    def retrieve_online_documents(
+        self,
+        feature: str,
+        query: Union[str, List[float]],
+        top_k: int,
+    ) -> OnlineResponse:
+        """
+        Retrieves the top k closest document features. Note, embeddings are a subset of features.
+
+        Args:
+            feature: The list of document features that should be retrieved from the online document store. These features can be
+                specified either as a list of string document feature references or as a feature service. String feature
+                references must have format "feature_view:feature", e.g, "document_fv:document_embeddings".
+            query: The query to retrieve the closest document features for.
+            top_k: The number of closest document features to retrieve.
+        """
+        return self._retrieve_online_documents(
+            feature=feature,
+            query=query,
+            top_k=top_k,
+        )
+
+    def _retrieve_online_documents(
+        self,
+        feature: str,
+        query: Union[str, List[float]],
+        top_k: int,
+    ):
+        if isinstance(query, str):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Using embedding functionality is not supported for document retrieval. Please embed the query before calling retrieve_online_documents."
+            )
+        (
+            requested_feature_views,
+            _,
+        ) = self._get_feature_views_to_use(
+            features=[feature], allow_cache=True, hide_dummy_entity=False
+        )
+        requested_feature = (
+            feature.split(":")[1] if isinstance(feature, str) else feature
+        )
+        provider = self._get_provider()
+        document_features = self._retrieve_from_online_store(
+            provider,
+            requested_feature_views[0],
+            requested_feature,
+            query,
+            top_k,
+        )
+        document_feature_vals = [feature[2] for feature in document_features]
+        document_feature_distance_vals = [feature[3] for feature in document_features]
+        online_features_response = GetOnlineFeaturesResponse(results=[])
+
+        # TODO Refactor to better way of populating result
+        # TODO populate entity in the response after returning entity in document_features is supported
+        self._populate_result_rows_from_columnar(
+            online_features_response=online_features_response,
+            data={requested_feature: document_feature_vals},
+        )
+        self._populate_result_rows_from_columnar(
+            online_features_response=online_features_response,
+            data={"distance": document_feature_distance_vals},
+        )
+        return OnlineResponse(online_features_response)
+
     @staticmethod
     def _get_columnar_entity_values(
         rowise: Optional[List[Dict[str, Any]]], columnar: Optional[Dict[str, List[Any]]]
@@ -1906,6 +1972,43 @@ def _read_from_online_store(
             read_row_protos.append((event_timestamps, statuses, values))
         return read_row_protos
 
+    def _retrieve_from_online_store(
+        self,
+        provider: Provider,
+        table: FeatureView,
+        requested_feature: str,
+        query: List[float],
+        top_k: int,
+    ) -> List[Tuple[Timestamp, "FieldStatus.ValueType", Value, Value]]:
+        """
+        Search and return document features from the online document store.
+        """
+        documents = provider.retrieve_online_documents(
+            config=self.config,
+            table=table,
+            requested_feature=requested_feature,
+            query=query,
+            top_k=top_k,
+        )
+
+        read_row_protos = []
+        row_ts_proto = Timestamp()
+
+        for row_ts, feature_val, distance_val in documents:
+            # Reset timestamp to default or update if row_ts is not None
+            if row_ts is not None:
+                row_ts_proto.FromDatetime(row_ts)
+
+            if feature_val is None or distance_val is None:
+                feature_val = Value()
+                distance_val = Value()
+                status = FieldStatus.NOT_FOUND
+            else:
+                status = FieldStatus.PRESENT
+
+            read_row_protos.append((row_ts_proto, status, feature_val, distance_val))
+        return read_row_protos
+
     @staticmethod
     def _populate_response_from_feature_data(
         feature_data: Iterable[

sdk/python/feast/infra/key_encoding_utils.py

@@ -72,3 +72,11 @@ def serialize_entity_key(
         output.append(val_bytes)
 
     return b"".join(output)
+
+
+def get_val_str(val):
+    accept_value_types = ["float_list_val", "double_list_val", "int_list_val"]
+    for accept_type in accept_value_types:
+        if val.HasField(accept_type):
+            return str(getattr(val, accept_type).val)
+    return None

sdk/python/feast/infra/offline_stores/contrib/postgres_offline_store/tests/data_source.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from testcontainers.core.waiting_utils import wait_for_logs
 
 from feast.data_source import DataSource
+from feast.feature_logging import LoggingDestination
 from feast.infra.offline_stores.contrib.postgres_offline_store.postgres import (
     PostgreSQLOfflineStoreConfig,
     PostgreSQLSource,
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@ def postgres_container():
 
 
 class PostgreSQLDataSourceCreator(DataSourceCreator, OnlineStoreCreator):
+    def create_logged_features_destination(self) -> LoggingDestination:
+        return None  # type: ignore
+
     def __init__(
         self, project_name: str, fixture_request: pytest.FixtureRequest, **kwargs
     ):

sdk/python/feast/infra/online_stores/contrib/postgres.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import logging
 from collections import defaultdict
 from datetime import datetime
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Union
 
 import psycopg2
 import pytz
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 from feast import Entity
 from feast.feature_view import FeatureView
-from feast.infra.key_encoding_utils import serialize_entity_key
+from feast.infra.key_encoding_utils import get_val_str, serialize_entity_key
 from feast.infra.online_stores.online_store import OnlineStore
 from feast.infra.utils.postgres.connection_utils import _get_conn, _get_connection_pool
 from feast.infra.utils.postgres.postgres_config import ConnectionType, PostgreSQLConfig
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
 class PostgreSQLOnlineStoreConfig(PostgreSQLConfig):
     type: Literal["postgres"] = "postgres"
 
+    # Whether to enable the pgvector extension for vector similarity search
+    pgvector_enabled: Optional[bool] = False
+
+    # If pgvector is enabled, the length of the vector field
+    vector_len: Optional[int] = 512
+
 
 class PostgreSQLOnlineStore(OnlineStore):
     _conn: Optional[psycopg2._psycopg.connection] = None
@@ -68,11 +74,19 @@ def online_write_batch(
                     created_ts = _to_naive_utc(created_ts)
 
                 for feature_name, val in values.items():
+                    val_str: Union[str, bytes]
+                    if (
+                        "pgvector_enabled" in config.online_config
+                        and config.online_config["pgvector_enabled"]
+                    ):
+                        val_str = get_val_str(val)
+                    else:
+                        val_str = val.SerializeToString()
                     insert_values.append(
                         (
                             entity_key_bin,
                             feature_name,
-                            val.SerializeToString(),
+                            val_str,
                             timestamp,
                             created_ts,
                         )
@@ -212,14 +226,20 @@ def update(
 
             for table in tables_to_keep:
                 table_name = _table_id(project, table)
+                value_type = "BYTEA"
+                if (
+                    "pgvector_enabled" in config.online_config
+                    and config.online_config["pgvector_enabled"]
+                ):
+                    value_type = f'vector({config.online_config["vector_len"]})'
                 cur.execute(
                     sql.SQL(
                         """
                         CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {}
                         (
                             entity_key BYTEA,
                             feature_name TEXT,
-                            value BYTEA,
+                            value {},
                             event_ts TIMESTAMPTZ,
                             created_ts TIMESTAMPTZ,
                             PRIMARY KEY(entity_key, feature_name)
@@ -228,6 +248,7 @@ def update(
                         """
                     ).format(
                         sql.Identifier(table_name),
+                        sql.SQL(value_type),
                         sql.Identifier(f"{table_name}_ek"),
                         sql.Identifier(table_name),
                     )
@@ -251,6 +272,74 @@ def teardown(
             logging.exception("Teardown failed")
             raise
 
+    def retrieve_online_documents(
+        self,
+        config: RepoConfig,
+        table: FeatureView,
+        requested_feature: str,
+        embedding: List[float],
+        top_k: int,
+    ) -> List[Tuple[Optional[datetime], Optional[ValueProto], Optional[ValueProto]]]:
+        """
+
+        Args:
+            config: Feast configuration object
+            table: FeatureView object as the table to search
+            requested_feature: The requested feature as the column to search
+            embedding: The query embedding to search for
+            top_k: The number of items to return
+        Returns:
+            List of tuples containing the event timestamp and the document feature
+
+        """
+        project = config.project
+
+        # Convert the embedding to a string to be used in postgres vector search
+        query_embedding_str = f"[{','.join(str(el) for el in embedding)}]"
+
+        result: List[
+            Tuple[Optional[datetime], Optional[ValueProto], Optional[ValueProto]]
+        ] = []
+        with self._get_conn(config) as conn, conn.cursor() as cur:
+            table_name = _table_id(project, table)
+
+            # Search query template to find the top k items that are closest to the given embedding
+            # SELECT * FROM items ORDER BY embedding <-> '[3,1,2]' LIMIT 5;
+            cur.execute(
+                sql.SQL(
+                    """
+                    SELECT
+                        entity_key,
+                        feature_name,
+                        value,
+                        value <-> %s as distance,
+                        event_ts FROM {table_name}
+                    WHERE feature_name = {feature_name}
+                    ORDER BY distance
+                    LIMIT {top_k};
+                    """
+                ).format(
+                    table_name=sql.Identifier(table_name),
+                    feature_name=sql.Literal(requested_feature),
+                    top_k=sql.Literal(top_k),
+                ),
+                (query_embedding_str,),
+            )
+            rows = cur.fetchall()
+
+            for entity_key, feature_name, value, distance, event_ts in rows:
+                # TODO Deserialize entity_key to return the entity in response
+                # entity_key_proto = EntityKeyProto()
+                # entity_key_proto_bin = bytes(entity_key)
+
+                # TODO Convert to List[float] for value type proto
+                feature_value_proto = ValueProto(string_val=value)
+
+                distance_value_proto = ValueProto(float_val=distance)
+                result.append((event_ts, feature_value_proto, distance_value_proto))
+
+        return result
+
 
 def _table_id(project: str, table: FeatureView) -> str:
     return f"{project}_{table.name}"

sdk/python/feast/infra/online_stores/contrib/postgres_repo_configuration.py

@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
-from feast.infra.offline_stores.contrib.postgres_offline_store.tests.data_source import (
-    PostgreSQLDataSourceCreator,
-)
 from tests.integration.feature_repos.integration_test_repo_config import (
     IntegrationTestRepoConfig,
 )
+from tests.integration.feature_repos.universal.online_store.postgres import (
+    PGVectorOnlineStoreCreator,
+    PostgresOnlineStoreCreator,
+)
 
 FULL_REPO_CONFIGS = [
-    IntegrationTestRepoConfig(online_store_creator=PostgreSQLDataSourceCreator),
+    IntegrationTestRepoConfig(
+        online_store="postgres", online_store_creator=PostgresOnlineStoreCreator
+    ),
+    IntegrationTestRepoConfig(
+        online_store="pgvector", online_store_creator=PGVectorOnlineStoreCreator
+    ),
 ]
+
+AVAILABLE_ONLINE_STORES = {"pgvector": PGVectorOnlineStoreCreator}

sdk/python/feast/infra/online_stores/online_store.py

@@ -134,3 +134,30 @@ def teardown(
             entities: Entities whose corresponding infrastructure should be deleted.
         """
         pass
+
+    def retrieve_online_documents(
+        self,
+        config: RepoConfig,
+        table: FeatureView,
+        requested_feature: str,
+        embedding: List[float],
+        top_k: int,
+    ) -> List[Tuple[Optional[datetime], Optional[ValueProto], Optional[ValueProto]]]:
+        """
+        Retrieves online feature values for the specified embeddings.
+
+        Args:
+            config: The config for the current feature store.
+            table: The feature view whose feature values should be read.
+            requested_feature: The name of the feature whose embeddings should be used for retrieval.
+            embedding: The embeddings to use for retrieval.
+            top_k: The number of nearest neighbors to retrieve.
+
+        Returns:
+            object: A list of top k closest documents to the specified embedding. Each item in the list is a tuple
+            where the first item is the event timestamp for the row, and the second item is a dict of feature
+            name to embeddings.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            f"Online store {self.__class__.__name__} does not support online retrieval"
+        )

sdk/python/feast/infra/passthrough_provider.py

@@ -190,6 +190,23 @@ def online_read(
             )
         return result
 
+    @log_exceptions_and_usage(sampler=RatioSampler(ratio=0.001))
+    def retrieve_online_documents(
+        self,
+        config: RepoConfig,
+        table: FeatureView,
+        requested_feature: str,
+        query: List[float],
+        top_k: int,
+    ) -> List:
+        set_usage_attribute("provider", self.__class__.__name__)
+        result = []
+        if self.online_store:
+            result = self.online_store.retrieve_online_documents(
+                config, table, requested_feature, query, top_k
+            )
+        return result
+
     def ingest_df(
         self,
         feature_view: FeatureView,