The cost of Hash tables | The Backend Engineering Show
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Hash tables are effective for caching, database joins, sets to check if something is in a list and even load balancing, partitioning and sharding and many other applications. Most programming languages support hash tables. However they don’t come without their cost and limitations lets discuss this. 0:00 Intro 1:50 Arrays 3:50 CPU Cost (NUMA/M1 Ultra) 6:50 Hash Tables 10:00 Hash Join 16:00 Cost of Hash Tables 20:00 Remapping Cost Hash Tables 22:30 Consistent hashing
