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Approximate membership query filter
Approximate membership query filters (hereafter, AMQ filters) comprise a group of space-efficient probabilistic data structures that support approximate membership queries. An approximate membership query answers whether an element is in a set or not with a false positive rate of .
Bloom filters are the most known AMQ filter, but there are other AMQ filters that support additional operations or have different space requirements.
AMQ filters have numerous applications, mainly in distributed systems and databases. There, they are often used to avoid network request or I/O operations that result from requesting elements that do not exist.
The approximate membership query problem is to store information about a set of elements S in a space-efficient way. The goal is to answer queries about whether an element x is in the set S or not, while constraining false positives to a maximal probability . All AMQ filters support this lookup operation. Dynamic AMQ filters allow insertions at any time whereas static AMQ filters must be rebuilt after inserting additional elements. Some AMQ filters support additional operations such as deleting elements, or merging two filters.
An AMQ filter lookup will determine whether an element is definitely not in the set or probably in the set.
In other words, if the filter represents a set S and we are interested in a value s, then the lookup function applied to s behaves as follows:
A false positive is a lookup of an element that is not part of the set, but where the lookup returns true. The probability of this happening is the false positive rate . False negatives (the lookup returns false although the element is part of the set) are not allowed for AMQ filters.
After an element is inserted the lookup for this element must return true. Dynamic AMQ filters support inserting elements one at a time without rebuilding the data structure. Other AMQ filters have to be rebuilt after each insertion. Those are called static AMQ filters.
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Approximate membership query filter
Approximate membership query filters (hereafter, AMQ filters) comprise a group of space-efficient probabilistic data structures that support approximate membership queries. An approximate membership query answers whether an element is in a set or not with a false positive rate of .
Bloom filters are the most known AMQ filter, but there are other AMQ filters that support additional operations or have different space requirements.
AMQ filters have numerous applications, mainly in distributed systems and databases. There, they are often used to avoid network request or I/O operations that result from requesting elements that do not exist.
The approximate membership query problem is to store information about a set of elements S in a space-efficient way. The goal is to answer queries about whether an element x is in the set S or not, while constraining false positives to a maximal probability . All AMQ filters support this lookup operation. Dynamic AMQ filters allow insertions at any time whereas static AMQ filters must be rebuilt after inserting additional elements. Some AMQ filters support additional operations such as deleting elements, or merging two filters.
An AMQ filter lookup will determine whether an element is definitely not in the set or probably in the set.
In other words, if the filter represents a set S and we are interested in a value s, then the lookup function applied to s behaves as follows:
A false positive is a lookup of an element that is not part of the set, but where the lookup returns true. The probability of this happening is the false positive rate . False negatives (the lookup returns false although the element is part of the set) are not allowed for AMQ filters.
After an element is inserted the lookup for this element must return true. Dynamic AMQ filters support inserting elements one at a time without rebuilding the data structure. Other AMQ filters have to be rebuilt after each insertion. Those are called static AMQ filters.