rawhash

An experimental binary friendly alternative to using a hash as a key:value cache, for node.js.

Keys are binary Buffer objects rather than strings. Values are arbitrary objects.

rawhash is built on google-sparsehash (not included) and murmurhash3 (included).

Install

get google-sparsehash:

• on Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install libsparsehash-dev
• on OS X: brew install google-sparsehash or port install google-sparsehash

or get the latest version from the google-sparsehash project

then install rawhash itself:

npm install rawhash

Usage

var rh = require('rawhash');
var k = new Buffer(6);
var h = new rh.Sparse();
h.set(k, {a:1, b:2});
console.log(h.get(k));
h.each(function(k, v) {
  console.log(k, v);
});
h.del(k);

There are 3 kinds of hashes:

• Sparse is slower, but uses less memory, uses sparse_hash_map<>
• Dense is faster, but uses more memory, uses dense_hash_map<>
• Map is usually somewhere between Sparse and Dense, uses the STL's map<> which is actually ordered and supports range queries - not exposed in Map

Sparse and Dense take an optional argument to seed murmurhash3.

var h = new rh.Dense(42);

Performance

This is largely TBD

On a synthetic test (see ./perf/) with 150K sets, gets and deletes (very similar to ./test.js) on a low-end MBP, this is how rawhash compares with using a Javascript hash:

Sparse 509 ms
Dense  330 ms
Map    463 ms
{}     754 ms

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Carlos Guerreiro, perceptiveconstructs.com

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