gongjunbing / guavahash

Google's Guava consistent hashing implementation

guavahash

Google's Guava consistent hashing implementation

Assign to input a "bucket" in the range [0, buckets), in a uniform manner that minimizes the need for remapping as buckets grows. That is, consistentHash(h, n) equals:

• n - 1, with approximate probability 1/n;
• consistentHash(h, n - 1), otherwise (probability 1 - 1/n).

See the wikipedia article on consistent hashing for more information.