[erlang-questions] Can we ask this question to a distributed hash ?

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Well, in that case, I think you'll want to look into Merkle trees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

I believe there is also an Erlang version somewhere on Google Code.

[Eric Ho <
>]
> 
>    I'm sorry...
>    Actually, I meant not a dht, but more like a general distributed
>    memory -- i.e. there may be duplicates in it and multiple actors (on
>    different machines) can insert stuff into this memory.  This
>    distributed memory can be configured to be either RAM-only or
>    RAM-and-disk, across all machines.
>    Thanks.
>    -eric
>    --- On Mon, 8/11/08, Jim McCoy <
> wrote:
> 
>      From: Jim McCoy <
>
>      Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Can we ask this question to a
>      distributed hash ?
>      To:
, "Erlang Questions"
>      <
>
>      Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 1:10 PM
> 2008/8/9 Eric Ho <
>:
> > "Is
>  item X in our distributed hash ?"
> > where the distributed hash exists as a gigantic hash in the RAMs of a
> bunch
> > of machines ?
> Do you want to answer the question with an absolute yes or no, or is a
> probabalistic answer good enough?
> If the latter, then you need to do some research into "bloom
> filters".
> If your dht supports deletion then you will probably want a counted
> bloom filter, and if the dht is very large or network bandwidth is
> constrained you will want to examine compressed bloom filters as well.
> Jim

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