Backport tenant-leading ClickHouse sort key + LowCardinality (2.4.x → 2.4.3)

[lohanidamodar]

Why

Appwrite Cloud is locked to utopia-php/database 5.* (via server-ce), so it cannot consume audit 2.5.0/2.6.0, both of which require database ^6.0.0. This backports the tenant-leading ClickHouse sort-key work from #126 (released in 2.6.0) onto the 2.4.x maintenance line, which stays on database 5.*.

What

Same logical change as #126, adapted to the 2.4.2 adapter structure:

• Tenant-leading sort key in setup()'s CREATE TABLE: ORDER BY (tenant, time, id) when sharedTables is enabled, otherwise ORDER BY (time, id).
• allow_nullable_key = 1 appended to SETTINGS only for shared tables (tenant is Nullable(UInt64)).
• LowCardinality columns in the CREATE TABLE column definitions only: event, actorType, resourceType → LowCardinality(String); country → LowCardinality(Nullable(String)) (nullable wrapped inside).
• Live test ClickHouseTest::testSharedTableSortKeyLeadsWithTenant() asserts system.tables.sorting_key leads with tenant (runs against the docker-compose ClickHouse in CI).

No projection / getSortingKey / migration logic is introduced — the library stays fresh-schema-only. Index set and query() visibility are unchanged.

Verification

• composer install resolves utopia-php/database 5.0.0 (database stays on 5.*).
• phpunit tests/Audit/QueryTest.php → 11 passed.
• pint --test → pass; phpstan analyse --level max src tests → no errors.
• php -l clean on changed files. The live ClickHouse test passes in CI; locally it errors only on connection.

Release

Should be released as 2.4.3.

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

• Backports the ClickHouse shared-table schema improvements to the 2.4.x maintenance line.
• Updates fresh ClickHouse table creation so shared tables use a tenant-leading sort key and enable nullable-key support for nullable tenant values.
• Changes selected string dimension columns to LowCardinality types in the generated schema.
• Adds a live ClickHouse test that verifies shared-table sorting starts with tenant.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The changes are focused on fresh ClickHouse schema creation and include targeted coverage for the shared-table sorting key behavior.

The touched adapter logic matches the described backport scope, existing query behavior is unchanged, and the added live test covers the key schema invariant.

T-Rex Logs

What T-Rex did

• Ran a baseline ClickHouse schema check on the base branch to establish the initial contract state; observed php_available is False and most contract markers report no, with the only exception being the existing plain SETTINGS index_granularity = 8192.
• Attempted the same run on the head after changes; the environment showed /bin/sh: php: not found, no docker binary, and apt installation blocked by permission errors; php remains unavailable and the run would expect contract markers to be yes for several features (shared_order_expr, shared_allow_nullable_key_conditional, low_cardinality_const, low_cardinality_required_nullable_logic, live_sort_key_test, and system_tables_sorting_key_query) once environment constraints are resolved.

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