Hash tables are one of the oldest and simplest data structures for storing elements and supporting deletions and queries. Invented in 1953, they underly most computational systems. Yet despite their ...
Main memory compression has re-emerged as a viable solution to DRAM cost challenges, enabled by CXL memory devices that support hardware-managed, coarse-grained compression. This shift decouples ...
The Table API enables a programmatic way of developing, testing, and submitting Flink pipelines for processing data streams. Streams can be finite or infinite, with insert-only or changelog data. The ...
Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Sometimes it’s nice to format the output of a console based Java program in a friendly way. The ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...
Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...
The comparison of floristic vegetation types on the basis of multiway contingency tables obtained by considering the properties of the species (structural, morphological, anatomical, chemical, ...
Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...