Quotient Filter

a go implementation of the quotient filter data structure. Quotient filter is a probabilistic data structure similar to a Bloom Filter. As BF it is used to approximate set membership. It never returns false for added keys but has a probability of returning a false positive, the probability depends on the amount of remainder bits and fill rate of the filter.

Its size is 10-20% more than a bloom filter with same FP rate but it usually is faster. It also has a few additional benefits:

• Filters can be merged without rehashing keys
• Adding or checking a key requires evaluating only a single hash function
• Can be resized without rehashing

For more details, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_filter

Interface

// Create a filter that can hold 1m elements while maintaining 1% false positive
// rate when at 1 million items length.
qf := NewProbability(1000000, 0.01)
qf.Add("key")
if !qf.Contains("key") {
  panic("False negative not possible")
}

docs

https://godoc.org/github.com/Nomon/qf-go

Credits

All credit goes to https://github.com/vedantk/quotient-filter this repo is golang port of Vedant Kumars C implementatuon.

License MIT

Additional work Copyright (c) 2016 Matti Savolainen matti@unity3d.com
Copyright 2014 Vedant Kumar vsk@berkeley.edu

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