Technical Memo: Memory Saving Associative Array by Kyoto Cabinet and MessagePack

Kyoto Cabinet features on-memory database which can be used as associative array of strings. MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. Combination of the two provides you associative array to contain generic objects. Space Efficiency of Kyoto Cabinet Let's suppose that we should manage 1 million simple records whose key and value are 10 bytes strings. The following is a

[hirose31]

KC×MessagePackがハンパない！

[kgbu]

連想配列用途ならspaceは5分の1すか。この組み合わせで流行るとHDDベンダーさん以外の世の中は幸せかもしらん。