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Summary: There's no technological impediment to allowing the Bloom filter bits/key to be non-integer (fractional/decimal) values, and it provides finer control over the memory vs. accuracy trade-off. This is especially handy in using the format_version=5 Bloom filter in place of the old one, because bits_per_key=9.55 provides the same accuracy as the old bits_per_key=10. This change not only requires refining the logic for choosing the best num_probes for a given bits/key setting, it revealed a flaw in that logic. As bits/key gets higher, the best num_probes for a cache-local Bloom filter is closer to bpk / 2 than to bpk * 0.69, the best choice for a standard Bloom filter. For example, at 16 bits per key, the best num_probes is 9 (FP rate = 0.0843%) not 11 (FP rate = 0.0884%). This change fixes and refines that logic (for the format_version=5 Bloom filter only, just in case) based on empirical tests to find accuracy inflection points between each num_probes. Although bits_per_key is now specified as a double, the new Bloom filter converts/rounds this to "millibits / key" for predictable/precise internal computations. Just in case of unforeseen compatibility issues, we round to the nearest whole number bits / key for the legacy Bloom filter, so as not to unlock new behaviors for it. Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6092 Test Plan: unit tests included Differential Revision: D18711313 Pulled By: pdillinger fbshipit-source-id: 1aa73295f152a995328cb846ef9157ae8a05522a
RocksDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage
RocksDB is developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team. It is built on earlier work on LevelDB by Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com) and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)
This code is a library that forms the core building block for a fast key-value server, especially suited for storing data on flash drives. It has a Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffs between Write-Amplification-Factor (WAF), Read-Amplification-Factor (RAF) and Space-Amplification-Factor (SAF). It has multi-threaded compactions, making it especially suitable for storing multiple terabytes of data in a single database.
Start with example usage here: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/tree/master/examples
See the github wiki for more explanation.
The public interface is in include/. Callers should not include or
rely on the details of any other header files in this package. Those
internal APIs may be changed without warning.
Design discussions are conducted in https://www.facebook.com/groups/rocksdb.dev/
License
RocksDB is dual-licensed under both the GPLv2 (found in the COPYING file in the root directory) and Apache 2.0 License (found in the LICENSE.Apache file in the root directory). You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licenses.