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sdsl-lite

Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0

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Observed mentions: 2014-01-18 07:09:13 UTC to 2025-03-06 19:09:39 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Succinct Data Structures [0] [1]. It encompass many different underlying data structure types but the overarching idea is that you want small data size while still keeping "big O" run time. In other words, data structures that effectively reach a 'practical' entropy lower bound while still keeping asymptotic run time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure [1] https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite
In Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
You may be interested in any or all of these: Minimal Acyclic Finite State Automata: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=115 (related: https://web.archive.org/web/20120302104036/http://siganakis....) Succinct Tries: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=120 (related: https://alexbowe.com/succinct-debruijn-graphs/) Compression and completion using GPT-2: https://bellard.org/textsynth/index.html (related: https://ed-von-schleck.github.io/shoco/) Search and compression with Finite State Transducers: http://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/ (related: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/) Collection of succinct string representations: https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite (related: http://pizzachili.dcc.uchile.cl/) Search with compressed Radix Trie: https://cr.yp.to/critbit.html related: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2020/CMU-CS-20-10...
In A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
Thanks. > ...adaptive succinct indexing structures We've been optimising for low-memory and compact / succinct data-structures have been super impactful (especially, static succinct Radix Tree and Data Sketches like CountMinSketch). Apart from the excellent sdsl-lite [0], roaring-bitmaps [1], apache data-sketches [2], and pizza-chilli [3], what are other resources that you recommend we take a look? > ...storage ratio was 1:1000, an order of magnitude This is insane: Is it due to compression techniques or... Could you please point a few reasons why the gap is this high? > The other major contributor to performance is scheduler design... Out of curiosity: Any pointers to papers that we can take a look at? --- [0] https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite [1] https://roaringbitmap.org/ [2] https://datasketches.apache.org/ [3] http://pizzachili.d
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In Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
At first I found intriguing to see no mention of SDSL[1], which probably is one of the best libraries in the field of compressed data structures, including compressed bitmaps. Probably because the index is built to answer a "different kind of queries". There is a blog commenting on those "other" queries[2]. In the same blog the author discusses some other compressed data structures included in the library. 1: https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite 2: http://alexbowe.com/rrr/
In EWAH – A compressed bitmap class in C++
I'm one of the authors of a more complete c++11 succinct data structure library [1] which includes several engineered implementations of wavelet trees, compressed suffix arrays and compressed suffix trees. while you are right that random access is one of the main bottlenecks of succinct data structures, we found that sometimes SDS can be faster than their uncompressed counterparts [2] The github URL contains some additional resources such as tutorial slides and cheatsheets if you want to check it out. [1] https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite/ [2] http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/sgog/optimized.pdf
In What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

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