hehe, sorry guys. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 For boon. > I kinda liked it... > > On Apr 8, 2010 3:03 PM, "Jeff Schmitz" <jefferyschm...@me.com> wrote: > > That typo in subject line was driving me nuts > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:04 AM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2010/4/7 Peter Schüller <sc...@spotify.com>: > > > >> (bloomfilters, not boonfilters) > >> > >> Speaking in general, not specific to cassandra: > >> > >> 2. Are boonfilters a fixed size, or they adjust as to the # of keys? > any > >>> example size? > >>> > >> > >> Bloom filters are by their very nature lossy in the sense that you > >> cannot determine later what you put into it. Re-sizing a bloom filter > >> implies re-creating it from scratch. I'm not sure what cassandra does > >> however. > >> > > > > i believe traditional bloom filters requires you to recreate it from > > scratch, but there are bloom filters that adapt dinamically to the > > number of elements stored keeping the error rate constant (IIRC the > > paper describing them was just "Scalable Bloom Filters"). > > > > > > > > > > -- > > blog en: http://www.riffraff.info > > blog it: http://riffraff.blogsome.com > > >
