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DxHash: A Scalable Consistent Hash Based on the Pseudo-Random Sequence

16 Jul 2021arXiv:2107.07930links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Chao Dong, Fang Wang, Dan Feng

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Consistent hashing (CH) has been pivotal as a data router and load balancer in diverse fields, including distributed databases, cloud infrastructure, and peer-to-peer networks. However, existing CH algorithms often fall short in simultaneously meeting various critical requirements, such as load balance, minimal disruption, statelessness, high lookup rate, small memory footprint, and low update overhead. To address these limitations, we introduce DxHash, a scalable consistent hashing algorithm based on pseudo-random sequences. To adjust workloads on heterogeneous nodes and enhance flexibility, we propose weighted DxHash. Through comprehensive evaluations, DxHash demonstrates substantial improvements across all six requirements compared to state-of-the-art alternatives. Notably, even when confronted with a 50% failure ratio in a cluster of one million nodes, DxHash maintains remarkable processing capabilities, handling up to 13.3 million queries per second.

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