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A consistent hashing library application

Ketama

Ketama is a pure Erlang implementation of libketama, a consistent hashing library created by the nice folks at Last.fm. It is notably used by PHP's memcached extension and similar projects in other programming languages.

Implementation notes

A continuum is stored in an ETS table of type ordered_set. When the continuum is updated (when adding new weights or removing values), the table is updated by first adding the new points and then deleting the ones which are now obsolete.

License

Under the terms of the ISC license.