Time Series, the new shiny?

Re:Time Series, the new shiny? by zcam on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:02AM (#11666587)

Isn't it more about the number of cycles it takes to generate the hash more than it's size, since you're likely to do that very often in a db context?

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Re:Time Series, the new shiny? by siculars on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:10AM (#11666616)

Probably. I'd venture to say the reason we use SHA is due to its uniform distribution over its speed (or lack thereof.)

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Re:Time Series, the new shiny? by zcam on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:20AM (#11666667)

I guess it's worth investigating, murmur has been in use by some big names (cassandra, elastic search, hadoop, etc...) for a while in similar contexts.

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Re:Time Series, the new shiny? by RBerenguel on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:51AM (#11666789)

I was pretty sure (checked almost 2 years ago) that murmur3 had a uniform distribution, too. And in terms of speed is a relatively easy gain

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