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rubyredisbloom-filter

How to use bloomfilters with Ruby's Redis client

All of the ruby libraries that exist are doing a custom bloomfilter implementation. I want to use Redis's native bloomfilter functionality.

Is there a way to send manual commands to redis using the ruby client?

Solution

  • You can use it by calling those methods manually. For example:

    client.call("BF.ADD", bloom_filter_name, key)

    client.call("BF.EXISTS", bloom_filter_name, key)

    Note

    • You need to enable the bloom filter module. It doesn't come by default.
    • AFAIK, it appears that you can only use the bloom filter (or cuckoo filter) module if you pay for Redis Enterprise.
    • The code for the bloom filter (or cuckoo) filter that you might find online are community projects
    • Any links to download the module are dead links.

    I would love to be wrong about the above caveats!