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Bloom filters, cuckoo filters, and other approximate set membership sketches have a wide range of applications. Oftentimes, expensive operations can be skipped if an item is not in a data set. These filters provide an inexpensive, memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Daniel Ting , Rick Cole

The Bloom filter provides fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers often use these filters to avoid slow operations such as disk or network accesses. As an alternative, a cuckoo filter may need less space than a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Thomas Mueller Graf , Daniel Lemire

Filters (such as Bloom Filters) are data structures that speed up network routing and measurement operations by storing a compressed representation of a set. Filters are space efficient, but can make bounded one-sided errors: with tunable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Samuel McCauley , Ely Porat

Popular approximate membership query structures such as Bloom filters and cuckoo filters are widely used in databases, security, and networking. These structures represent sets approximately, and support at least two operations - insert and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jim Apple

This paper presents new alternatives to the well-known Bloom filter data structure. The Bloom filter, a compact data structure supporting set insertion and membership queries, has found wide application in databases, storage systems, and…

Bloom and cuckoo filters provide fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers use them to avoid expensive disk and network accesses. The recently introduced xor filters can be faster and smaller than Bloom and cuckoo…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Thomas Mueller Graf , Daniel Lemire

Cuckoo filters are space-efficient approximate set membership data structures with a controllable false positive rate (FPR) and zero false negatives, similar to Bloom filters. In contrast to Bloom filters, Cuckoo filters store multi-bit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Johanna Elena Schmitz , Jens Zentgraf , Sven Rahmann

The cuckoo filter data structure of Fan, Andersen, Kaminsky, and Mitzenmacher (CoNEXT 2014) performs the same approximate set operations as a Bloom filter in less memory, with better locality of reference, and adds the ability to delete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-21 David Eppstein

A quotient filter is a cache efficient AMQ data structure. Depending on the fill degree of the filter most insertions and queries only need to access one or two consecutive cache lines. This makes quotient filters fast compared to the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Tobias Maier , Peter Sanders , Robert Williger

Approximate Membership Query (AMQ) structures are essential for high-throughput systems in databases, networking, and bioinformatics. While Bloom filters offer speed, they lack support for deletions. Existing GPU-based dynamic alternatives,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tim Dortmann , Markus Vieth , Bertil Schmidt

Probabilistic filters are approximate set membership data structures that represent a set of keys in small space, and answer set membership queries without false negative answers, but with a certain allowed false positive probability. Such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Johanna Elena Schmitz , Jens Zentgraf , Sven Rahmann

Filters such as Bloom, quotient, and cuckoo filters are fundamental building blocks providing space-efficient approximate set membership testing. However, many applications need to associate small values with keys-functionality that filters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Michael A. Bender , Alex Conway , Martín Farach-Colton , Rob Johnson , Prashant Pandey

In this paper, we present an implementation of a cuckoo filter for membership testing, optimized for distributed data stores operating in high workloads. In large databases, querying becomes inefficient using traditional search methods. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Aman Khalid

The Bloom filter (BF) is a well-known space-efficient data structure that answers set membership queries with some probability of false positives. In an attempt to solve many of the limitations of current inter-networking architectures,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Carlos A. Macapuna , Fabio L. Verdi , Mauricio F. Magalhaes , Alexander Wiesmaier

Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure for checking elements' membership in a set. Given multiple sets, however, a standard Bloom filter is not sufficient when looking for the items to which an element or a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Francesco Concas , Pengfei Xu , Mohammad A. Hoque , Jiaheng Lu , Sasu Tarkoma

With the growing scale of big data, probabilistic structures receive increasing popularity for efficient approximate storage and query processing. For example, Bloom filters (BF) can achieve satisfactory performance for approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yue Fu , Rong Du , Haibo Hu , Man Ho Au , Dagang Li

It has been shown in the indexing literature that there is an essential difference between prefix/range searches on the one hand, and predecessor/rank searches on the other hand, in that the former provably allows faster query resolution.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Djamal Belazzougui , Paolo Boldi , Rasmus Pagh , Sebastiano Vigna

Bloom filters are widely used data structures that compactly represent sets of elements. Querying a Bloom filter reveals if an element is not included in the underlying set or is included with a certain error rate. This membership testing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Angjela Davitkova , Damjan Gjurovski , Sebastian Michel

A Bloom filter is a space efficient structure for storing static sets, where the space efficiency is gained at the expense of a small probability of false-positives. A Bloomier filter generalizes a Bloom filter to compactly store a function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Denis Charles , Kumar Chellapilla

The Distributed Bloom Filter is a space-efficient, probabilistic data structure designed to perform more efficient set reconciliations in distributed systems. It guarantees eventual consistency of states between nodes in a system, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Lum Ramabaja , Arber Avdullahu
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