Fast and Scalable Minimal Perfect Hash Functions in Rust

A Rust impl of Fast and scalable minimal perfect hashing for massive key sets.

The library generates a minimal perfect hash functions (MPHF) for a collection of hashable objects. This algorithm generates MPHFs that consume ~3-6 bits/item. The memory consumption during construction is a small multiple (< 2x) of the size of the dataset and final size of the MPHF. Note, minimal perfect hash functions only return a usable hash value for objects in the set used to create the MPHF. Hashing a new object will return an arbitrary hash value. If your use case may result in hashing new values, you will need an auxiliary scheme to detect this condition.

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Example usage:

use boomphf::*;

// sample set of obejcts
let possible_objects = vec![1, 10, 1000, 23, 457, 856, 845, 124, 912];
let n = possible_objects.len();

// generate a minimal perfect hash function of these items
let phf = Mphf::new(1.7, possible_objects.clone(), None);

// Get hash value of all objects
let mut hashes = Vec::new();
for v in possible_objects {
    hashes.push(phf.hash(&v));
}
hashes.sort();

// Expected hash output is set of all integers from 0..n
let expected_hashes: Vec<u64> = (0 .. n as u64).collect();
assert!(hashes == expected_hashes)

Note: this crate carries it's own bit-vector implementation to support rank-select queries and multi-threaded read-write access.