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Ask HN: Petabyte Dictionary Lookup
2 points by flerovium on May 30, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
What is the cheapest and most efficient way to make a map from keys to values at very large scale, perhaps several petabytes?

When you query, the results are allowed to be a little stale.

It should be available to several boxes on a datacenter. Services that provide this are acceptable.



Well the theory tells us that lookups are O(1) anyway, so the implementation doesn't matter ;)

Will the dataset change over time, or is it immutable? I have some thoughts on this, but I have no idea how it would scale to terabyte-scale and even further.


Extendible hashing or Minimal perfect hashing




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