[jira] Updated: (HBASE-908) Add approximate counting to CountingBloomFilter

["Andrzej Bialecki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrzej Bialecki  updated HBASE-908:
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    Attachment: bloom.patch

This patch adds a new method, approximateCount(Key). There is also a JUnit test to test this functionality.

> Add approximate counting to CountingBloomFilter
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-908
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-908
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: util
>    Affects Versions: 0.19.0
>            Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki 
>             Fix For: 0.19.0
>
>         Attachments: bloom.patch
>
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> CountingBloomFilter can return approximate count of how many times any particular key was added to the filter. This means that we can use a CountingBloomFilter like an approximate map of key->count, for values of count significantly smaller than the bucket size (15 in this implementation).

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