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Life & fun · June 26, 2017

An improved version of HyperLogLog

HyperLogLog with lots of sugar (Sparse, LogLog-Beta bias correction and TailCut space reduction) brought to you by Axiom - axiomhq/hyperloglog

An improved version of HyperLogLog launched on June 26, 2017 with 194 votes, #158 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

This is an improved version of HyperLogLog, a probabilistic data structure used for counting large datasets efficiently. It targets developers working with big data applications who need fast cardinality estimation with reduced memory usage. The project was released on GitHub in 2017 and offers enhancements to the original algorithm's accuracy and performance for counting distinct elements in streams of data.

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