Probabilistic
Data Structures and Algorithms
for Big Data Applications

A technical book about popular space-efficient data structures and fast algorithms that are extremely useful in modern Big Data applications.

ISBN: 978-3748190486 Paperback: 220 pages

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About the book

Probabilistic data structures is a common name for data structures based mostly on different hashing techniques. Unlike regular (or deterministic) data structures, they always provide approximated answers but with reliable ways to estimate possible errors. Fortunately, the potential losses or errors are fully compensated for by extremely low memory requirements, constant query time, and scaling, three factors that become important in Big Data applications.

While it is impossible to cover all the existing amazing solutions, this book is to highlight their common ideas and important areas of application, including membership querying, counting, stream mining, and similarity estimation.

The purpose of this book is to introduce technology practitioners, including software architects and developers, as well as technology decision makers to probabilistic data structures and algorithms. Reading this book, you will get a theoretical and practical understanding of probabilistic data structures and learn about their common uses.

  •  Learn how to solve practical issues of massive data handling
  •  Master the theoretical aspects of probabilistic data structures
  •  Identify the right data structures for your particular problems

This is not a book for scientists, but to gain the most out of it you will need to have basic mathematical knowledge and an understanding of the general theory of data structures and algorithms.

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Hashing

We give a brief overview of popular hash functions and hash tables that are widely used in probabilistic data structures.

  • Cryptographic hash functions
  • Non-Cryptographic hash functions
  • Hash tables

Membership

We study the most well-known known probabilistic data structures that are used to answer approximate membership queries.

  • Bloom filter
  • Counting Bloom filter
  • Quotient filter
  • Cuckoo filter

Cardinality

We learn data structures that allow to estimate the number of unique elements in a dataset.

  • Linear Counting
  • Probabilistic Counting
  • LogLog and HyperLogLog

Frequency

We discuss solutions for common problems in streaming applications, such as finding frequency of some element, filtering most frequent elements in the stream, detecting trending elements, etc.

  • Majority algorithm
  • Frequent algorithm
  • Count Sketch
  • Count–Min Sketch

Rank

We study data structures to estimate quantiles and percentiles in a data stream using only one pass through the data.

  • Random sampling
  • q-digest
  • t-digest

Similarity

We learn how to effciently solve the nearest neighbor problem for large datasets using sub-linear in time solutions.

  • Locality-Sensitive hashing
  • MinHash
  • SimHash

Andrii Gakhov, Ph.D.

Andrii Gakhov is a mathematician and software engineer holding a Ph.D.in mathematical modeling and numerical methods. He has been a teacher in the School of Computer Science at V. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine for a number of years and currently works as a software practitioner for ferret go GmbH, the leading community moderation, automation, and analytics company in Germany. His fields of interests include machine learning, stream mining, and data analysis.

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