hyperloglog.h

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/*
 * hyperloglog.h
 *
 * A simple HyperLogLog cardinality estimator implementation
 *
 * Portions Copyright (c) 2014-2024, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * Based on Hideaki Ohno's C++ implementation.  The copyright terms of Ohno's
 * original version (the MIT license) follow.
 *
 * src/include/lib/hyperloglog.h
 */
 
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Hideaki Ohno <hide.o.j55{at}gmail.com>
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#ifndef HYPERLOGLOG_H
#define HYPERLOGLOG_H
 
/*
 * HyperLogLog is an approximate technique for computing the number of distinct
 * entries in a set.  Importantly, it does this by using a fixed amount of
 * memory.  See the 2007 paper "HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal
 * cardinality estimation algorithm" for more.
 *
 * hyperLogLogState
 *
 *      registerWidth       register width, in bits ("k")
 *      nRegisters          number of registers
 *      alphaMM             alpha * m ^ 2 (see initHyperLogLog())
 *      hashesArr           array of hashes
 *      arrSize             size of hashesArr
 */
typedef struct hyperLogLogState
{
    uint8       registerWidth;
    Size        nRegisters;
    double      alphaMM;
    uint8      *hashesArr;
    Size        arrSize;
} hyperLogLogState;
 
extern void initHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint8 bwidth);
extern void initHyperLogLogError(hyperLogLogState *cState, double error);
extern void addHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint32 hash);
extern double estimateHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState);
extern void freeHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState);
 
#endif                          /* HYPERLOGLOG_H */