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Bloom Filters: A Look Into Ruby
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Fernando Mendes
July 29, 2016
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Bloom Filters: A Look Into Ruby
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Transcript
B L O O M F I LT E R
S or: that one time I was hella bored
Bloom Filters Or: How I Learned To Stop Procrastinating And
Benchmark The Code
THE A MASTERPIECE OF MODERN HORROR FiLTERiNG
2016: a space-efficient odyssey An epic drama of boredom and
exploration
B L O O M F I LT E R
S or: that one time I was hella bored
“a bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived
by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970 (…) a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set"” - Wikipedia, 2016
bloom filter
bloom filter do you have the element 3?
bloom filter yeah, probably
bloom filter do you have the element 4?
bloom filter I most certainly do not
bloom filter I most certainly do not “Why do people
even like this thing?”
add ‘subvisual’
hash(‘subvisual’)
add ‘rubyconf’
hash(‘rubyconf’)
test ‘subvisual’
hash(‘subvisual’) all are 1?
test ‘subvisual’ true
test ‘office’
all are 1? hash(‘office’)
test ‘office’ false
test ‘mirrorconf’
hash(‘mirrorconf’) all are 1?
test ‘mirrorconf’ true
test and add play with hash functions get to say
smart stuff like “so I wrote this bloom filter”
diving into it with Ruby
module DumbFilter end
module DumbFilter class Array def initialize @data = [] end
end end
module DumbFilter class Array def add(str) @data << str end
end end
module DumbFilter class Array def test(str) @data.include? str end end
end
you don’t play with hash functions sequential access space wastefulness
module DumbFilter class Hash def initialize @data = {} end
end end
module DumbFilter class Hash def add(str) @data[str] = true end
end end
module DumbFilter class Hash def test(str) @data[str] end end end
you kinda play with hash functions instant access
“a bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived
by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970 (…) a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set"” - Wikipedia, 2016
/peterc/bitarray
def initialize(size: 1024) @bits = BitArray.new(size) @fnv = FNV.new @size
= size end
def add(str) @bits[i(str)] = 1 end def i(str) @fnv.fnv1a_64(str) %
@size end
def test(str) @bits[i(str)] == 1 end
you do play with hash functions instant access space-efficient small
universe == more collisions
def initialize(size: 1024, iterations: 3) @bits = BitArray.new(size) @size =
size @seeds = seed(iterations) end
def initialize(size: 1024, iterations: 3) @bits = BitArray.new(size) @size =
size @seeds = seed(iterations) end
def initialize(size: 1024, iterations: 3) @bits = BitArray.new(size) @size =
size @seeds = seed(iterations) end
def seed(nr) (1..nr).each_with_object([]) do |n, s| s << SecureRandom.hex(3).to_i(16) end
end
def hash(str, seed) MurmurHash3::V32.str_hash(str, seed) end
def i(str) @seeds.map { |s| hash(str, s) % @size }
end
def add(str) set i(str) end def set(indexes) indexes.each { |i|
@bits[i] = 1 } end
def test(str) get i(str) end def get(indexes) indexes.all? { |i|
@bits[i] == 1 } end
demo (yes, yet another goddamned Rails blog app)
None
None
test-drive
5 million random inserts probabilistic universe of 10 million 5
million random accesses /igrigorik/bloomfilter-rb
fnv is really slow ruby string hashing is optimized bloomfilter-rb
uses C extensions
Collision counting ruby’s hash is not probabilistic nor space-efficient “what
about bf_v2’s poor result?”
you do play with hash functions instant access space-efficient small
universe == more collisions
Collision counting: 1024 bits & 300 entries m(bits)/n(entries) * ln(2)
optimal number of hash functions:
in the field
Article tailoring - Quora & Medium Type-ahead queries — Facebook
I/O Filter — Apache HBase Malicious URL Check — bit.ly Checking node communications in IoT sensors
B L O O M F I LT E R
S or: that one time I was hella bored