Talán

Probabilistic data structures in Elixir:

• Bloom filter for membership estimation
• Counting bloom filter for membership & cardinality estimation with delete support
• Linear probabilistic counter for cardinality estimation

Documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/talan.

Talán is a Hungarian adverb meaning: maybe, perhaps, probably.

Installation

Add talan to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

Note: it requires OTP-21.2.1 or later.

def deps do
  [
    {:talan, "~> 0.2.1"}
  ]
end

Usage

alias Talan.BloomFilter

bloom_filter = BloomFilter.new(1000)
bloom_filter |> BloomFilter.put("Barna")
bloom_filter |> BloomFilter.member?("Barna")
true
bloom_filter |> BloomFilter.member?("Kovacs")
false

License

Talán is MIT licensed.