bloomfilter

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v0.0.0-...-a65877b Latest Latest Go to latest Published: Jul 21, 2021 License: MIT Imports: 17 Imported by: 0

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Repository

github.com/alsm/bloomfilter

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Important: Zeroth, consider if a Cuckoo filter could be right for your use-case.

Face-meltingly fast, thread-safe, marshalable, unionable, probability- and optimal-size-calculating Bloom filter in go

MIT license

WTF is a bloom filter

**TL;DR: **Probabilistic, extra lookup table to track a set of elements kept elsewhere to reduce expensive, unnecessary set element retrieval and/or iterator operations when an element is not present in the set. It's a classic time-storage tradeoff algoritm.

Properties

See wikipedia for algorithm details

Impact	What	Description
Good	No false negatives	know for certain if a given element is definitely NOT in the set
Bad	False positives	uncertain if a given element is in the set
Bad	Theoretical potential for hash collisions	in very large systems and/or badly hash.Hash64-conforming implementations
Bad	Add only	Cannot remove an element, it would destroy information about other elements
Good	Constant storage	uses only a fixed amount of memory

Naming conventions

(Similar to algorithm)

Variable/function	Description	Range
m/M()	number of bits in the bloom filter (memory representation is about m/8 bytes in size)	>=2
n/N()	number of elements present	>=0
k/K()	number of keys to use (keys are kept private to user code but are de/serialized to Marshal and file I/O)	>=0
maxN	maximum capacity of intended structure	>0
p	maximum allowed probability of collision (for computing m and k for optimal sizing)	>0..<1

Memory representation should be exactly 24 + 8*(k + (m+63)/64) + unsafe.Sizeof(RWMutex) bytes.
Serialized (BinaryMarshaler) representation should be exactly 72 + 8*(k + (m+63)/64) bytes. (Disk format is less due to compression.)

Binary serialization format

All values in Little-endian format

Offset	Offset (Hex)	Length (bytes)	Name	Type
0	00	8	k	`uint64`
8	08	8	n	`uint64`
16	10	8	m	`uint64`
24	18	k	(keys)	`[k]uint64`
24+8*k	...	(m+63)/64	(bloom filter)	`[(m+63)/64]uint64`
24+8k+8((m+63)/64)	...	48	(SHA384 of all previous fields, hashed in order)	`[48]byte`

bloomfilter.Filter conforms to encoding.BinaryMarshaler and `encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler'

Usage


import "github.com/steakknife/bloomfilter"

const (
  maxElements = 100000
  probCollide = 0.0000001
)

bf, err := bloomfilter.NewOptimal(maxElements, probCollide)
if err != nil {
  panic(err)
}

someValue := ... // must conform to hash.Hash64

bf.Add(someValue)
if bf.Contains(someValue) { // probably true, could be false
  // whatever
}

anotherValue := ... // must also conform to hash.Hash64

if bf.Contains(anotherValue) {
  panic("This should never happen")
}

err := bf.WriteFile("1.bf.gz")  // saves this BF to a file
if err != nil {
  panic(err)
}

bf2, err := bloomfilter.ReadFile("1.bf.gz") // read the BF to another var
if err != nil {
  panic(err)
}

Design

Where possible, branch-free operations are used to avoid deep pipeline / execution unit stalls on branch-misses.

Get

go get -u github.com/steakknife/bloomfilter  # master is always stable

Source

On the web: https://github.com/steakknife/bloomfilter
Git: git clone https://github.com/steakknife/bloomfilter

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License

MIT license