Ten million uniques
Where the saving against a set is enormous
cardinality: 10000000
Redis HyperLogLog Calculator
See what a HyperLogLog costs against an exact set at your cardinality, and what the approximation actually means in absolute terms.
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Examples
Real input you can load into the tool above. Each one shows a different thing going wrong, because that is what the tool is for.
A small cardinality
Where a set is exact and barely larger, so the approximation buys nothing
cardinality: 500
Common mistakes
These are the ones that fail silently. The config is accepted, nothing raises an error, and the consequence arrives later.
Reporting a PFCOUNT as exact
It is an estimate with a 0.81% standard error. At ten million that is roughly plus or minus eighty thousand.
Instead:Never use it for billing, reconciliation or anything audited.
Using it below a few thousand distinct values
A set is exact and costs about the same at that scale.
Instead:Switch to a set. The saving only appears at large cardinalities.
Forgetting PFMERGE is the real feature
Daily HyperLogLogs merge into weekly and monthly with no extra loss, which storing the members cannot do cheaply.
Instead:Store one per period and merge on read.
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