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In part 1 of this series, I described how to find the closest match in a dictionary of words using a Trie. Such searches are useful because users often mistype queries. But tries can take a lot of memory -- so much that they may not even fit in the ...

      FINALTERM  EXAMINATION Spring 2010 CS301- Data Structures Time: 90 min Marks: 58   Question No: 1      ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one  A solution is said to be efficient if...

In 2003 the Perl development community was made aware of an algorithmic complexity attack on the Perl's hash table implementation[1]. This attack was similar to reports over the last few years of attacks on other languages and packages, such as the Java...

MySQL Fabric is a new framework that adds High Availability (HA) and/or scaling-out for MySQL. This is the third in a series of posts on the new MySQL Fabric framework; the first article (MySQL Fabric – adding High Availability to MySQL) explains...

Probabilistic data structures store data compactly with low memory and provide approximate answers to queries about stored data. They are designed to answer queries in a space-efficient manner, which can mean sacrificing accuracy. However, they typically...