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24 alternatives to A Lock- and wait-free hashtable (and an array too), written in C

📶 A lock- and wait-free hashtable (and an array too) - mulle-concurrent/mulle-concurrent

A Lock- and Wait-Free Hashtable is a C library providing concurrent data structures designed for multi-threaded applications. It offers both a hashtable and an array implementation that operate without locks or wait… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Lock- and wait-free hashtable (and an array too), written in C launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A concurrent thread-safe hash map implemented in C++ - kshk123/hashMap

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Simple GPU Hash Table

    2020 · nosferalatu.com · its alternatives →

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    A small, portable, linear probing hash map. Contribute to e-dant/salmagundi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple GPU hash table implemented in CUDA using lock free techniques - nosferalatu/SimpleGPUHashTable

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to igushev/IgushArray development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project presents a new data structure for storing ordered integer maps. The proposed data structure is a compressive, cache-friendly, radix tree that has performance comparable to an unordered map (`std::unordered_map`) and is an order of magnitude faster than an ordered map (`std::map`).

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects. - GitHub - rochus-keller/CspChan: A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple hash table implementation for C. Contribute to watmough/jwHash development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Multithreaded, non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust - nathansizemore/hydrogen

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A single publisher, multi subscriber lockless ring buffer build with the new generics in Go 1.18beta.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pure C implementation of Go channels. Contribute to tylertreat/chan development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :copyright: Concurrent Programming Library (Coroutine) for C11 - sharow/libconcurrent

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fun toy memory allocator (not thread safe, that's a future TODO). I also wanted to explain how I approached it, so I also wrote a tutorial blog post (~20 minute read) covering the code which you can find the link to in the README.

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · chara.cs.illinois.edu · its alternatives →

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    Concurrency library for C (coroutines). Contribute to tidwall/neco development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A superior consensus algorithm.

    2017 · hashgraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, this is Will and David from Fortress (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998). We use a lot of async Rust internally, and created this library out of a need for an async-aware concurrent hashmap since there weren’t many available in the Rust ecosystem. Whirlwind is a sharded HashMap with a fully asynchronous API. Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock. It has a similar design and performance characteristics to dashmap, but seems to perform better in read-heavy workloads with tokio's…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Non-preemptive Thread Hierarchy Manager. Contribute to gueststar/nthm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZeroDB▲119

    An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol

    2015 · zerodb.io · its alternatives →

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    🔄 Flexible C memory allocation scheme. Contribute to mulle-c/mulle-allocator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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