Show HN: InBloom – Portable Bloom Filters in Java, Python and Go

by dvirsky • 11 years ago

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avitzurel• 11 years ago

Everything.Me have been doing great open source work for a while now.

redash (https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash) is another great example.

I love seeing open source coming from companies under the company repo and not only from developers, this means a lot looking at a company, it means they actually care about the ecosystem and the community around the languages they use.

Kudos to the team there!

dvirsky3• 11 years ago

Thanks! We figure, if we write infrastructure stuff that is not part of our core IP, we might as well open it so it won't rot, or at least rot much slower - and you might even get improvements to what you do.

Even if it's not a big project like redash, it still helps if you get occasional bug reports and pull requests. Another added bonus - people tend to write higher quality code if they know it's going to be open.

Here are a few of our other projects besides redash and Inbloom:

Magneto - Android test automation https://github.com/EverythingMe/magneto

Jitt - Just In Time translations for Android apps https://github.com/EverythingMe/jitt

GoFigure - easy configuration file parsing for go https://github.com/EverythingMe/gofigure

Plaxien - nice "explain" interface for in-app reporting in Android https://github.com/EverythingMe/plaxien

Geodis - a redis based geo-resolving and geo search library in Python https://github.com/EverythingMe/geodis

Rainbow - AWS Cloudformation on steroids https://github.com/EverythingMe/rainbow

OpenSpace - a nice dashboard to showcase our open source projects. https://github.com/EverythingMe/openspace (the full list of projects is demoed on it here - http://everythingme.github.io/)

itamarhaber• 11 years ago

May you have a long and rot-free life!

jhgg• 11 years ago

I wrote something very similar a week ago actually, https://github.com/jhgg/pybloof

I'm pretty sure I messed it up slightly though. :|

simonw• 11 years ago

What a great idea for a library. Thanks for sharing.

dvirsky3• 11 years ago

Thanks :)

taliesinb• 11 years ago

Not to take away from this at all, but if you're interested in Bloom filters you might also be interested in Cuckoo filters: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf, previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489971

JohnDoe365• 11 years ago

What is the relationship to algorithms like HyperLogLog? They do also estimate set cardinality and seem even more capable?

dvirsky3• 11 years ago

HLL can only estimate cardinality, it can't test for the existence of a key. The idea is the same - sacrifice some precision and gain a huge memory saving. But they don't share anything beyond that in terms of the math.

Show HN: InBloom – Portable Bloom Filters in Java, Python and Go

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