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A crazy fast analytical database, built on bitmaps. Perfect for ML applications. Learn more at: http://docs.featurebase.com/. Start a Docker instance: https://hub.docker.com/r/featurebasedb/featurebase

17 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 9 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-05-03 · latest 2025-07-30

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  1. …to compress and query the events in a way that fits well this particular workload. FeatureBase: https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase this one was built on top of bitmaps but they didn't market it as a solution specifically for…
  2. …[2] or they implemented it themselves. Either way it's based on the idea of compressed bitmaps. [1] https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase [2] https://roaringbitmap.org/
  3. …Pilosa mentioned in the article is now called FeatureBase and all the new activity is happening at https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
    comment by toddgruben · 2022-09-22 · in Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (2019)
  4. Source code: https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
  5. …a hell of a lot faster and less cumbersome. We went from 30 ES servers down to 4 Pilosa servers. https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
    comment by skingkong · 2018-03-22 · in Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch
  6. Pilosa, https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa which is mentioned, is actually open source, and a relatively readable Go codebase if anyone is interested in what "an entire data engine on top of bit-vectors" looks like.
  7. 1. It is written in Go, and open source! https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa 2. It's going to depend on your use case, but generally you will be streaming writes into your current data store as well as Pilosa. Then read queries will be…
  8. …helped create Pilosa [0], a bitmap index. I've been meaning to read through that at some point. [0] https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
    comment by nantes · 2017-06-01 · in Ask HN: Good Go codebases to read?