Probabilistic Data Structures

This is a general overview of probablistic data structures (with examples of data structures over 5 different categories).

Introduction

When it comes to answers we often want the precise exact answer, but there comes a time and place where getting the exact answer may take too much resources and we would be fine with an approximate answer that is close to the correct answer.

Take for instance, Big Data, as Big Data deals with massive amounts of data and processing time, often times the standard ...