ewah

go-ewah

go-ewah is a pure Go implementation of the EWAH bitmap compression format with no dependencies other than the assertion library for the tests.

Goals

• Read and write EWAH bitmaps using the serialization format used by git.
• Fast read and writes.

Install

go get github.com/erizocosmico/go-ewah

Usage

Read from bytes

bitmap, err := bitmap.FromBytes(somebytes, binary.BigEndian)
if err != nil {
    // check error
}

value, err := bitmap.Get(6)
if err != nil {
    // check error
}

fmt.Println(value) // either `true` or `false`

Read from a reader

bitmap, err := bitmap.FromReader(somereader, binary.BigEndian)
if err != nil {
    // check error
}
 
// the rest is the same as the previous example

Create bitmap manually

By default all bits are 0, so we only call Set(bitPos) to mark the ones. Once a bit N has been set, you can't set a bit M whose index is lower than the index of N.

b := bitmap.New()

if err := b.Set(6); err != nil {
    // handle error
}

Write bitmap

b := bitmap.New()

// fill the bitmap

w := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
bytesWritten, err := b.Write(w, binary.BigEndian)
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}

Data format

For more details regarding the compression format, please see Section 3 of the following paper:

Daniel Lemire, Owen Kaser, Kamel Aouiche, Sorting improves word-aligned bitmap indexes. Data & Knowledge Engineering 69 (1), pages 3-28, 2010. http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3751

Or check the Java reference implementation.

Benchmarks

$ go test . -bench=. -benchmem
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/erizocosmico/go-ewah
BenchmarkBitmapGet-4            100000000               17.5 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkBitmapWrite-4           5000000               338 ns/op              64 B/op          9 allocs/op
BenchmarkBitmapRead-4            3000000               537 ns/op             272 B/op         12 allocs/op
BenchmarkBitmapSet-4            200000000                8.14 ns/op            0 B/op          0 allocs/op
PASS
ok      github.com/erizocosmico/go-ewah 44.797s

Benchmarks run on a MacBook Pro Retina (mid-2014) with a 2,6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.

License

MIT, see LICENSE