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Trino offers several functions that deal with the MinHash technique. MinHash is used to quickly estimate the Jaccard similarity coefficient between two sets. It is commonly used in data mining to detect near-duplicate web pages at scale. By using this information, the search engines efficiently avoid showing within the search results two pages that are nearly identical. The following example showcases how the Set Digest functions can be used to naively estimate the similarity between texts. The input texts are split by using the function ngrams() to 4-shingles which are used as input for creating a set digest of each initial text. The set digests are compared to each other to get an approximation of the similarity of their corresponding initial texts: 
WITH text_input(id, text) AS (
         VALUES
             (1, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'),
             (2, 'The quick and the lazy'),
             (3, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the dog')
     ),
     text_ngrams(id, ngrams) AS (
         SELECT id,
                transform(
                  ngrams(
                    split(text, ' '),
                    4
                  ),
                  token -> array_join(token, ' ')
                )
         FROM text_input
     ),
     minhash_digest(id, digest) AS (
         SELECT id,
                (SELECT make_set_digest(v) FROM unnest(ngrams) u(v))
         FROM text_ngrams
     ),
     setdigest_side_by_side(id1, digest1, id2, digest2) AS (
         SELECT m1.id as id1,
                m1.digest as digest1,
                m2.id as id2,
                m2.digest as digest2
         FROM (SELECT id, digest FROM minhash_digest) m1
         JOIN (SELECT id, digest FROM minhash_digest) m2
           ON m1.id != m2.id AND m1.id < m2.id
     )
SELECT id1,
       id2,
       intersection_cardinality(digest1, digest2) AS intersection_cardinality,
       jaccard_index(digest1, digest2)            AS jaccard_index
FROM setdigest_side_by_side
ORDER BY id1, id2;

 id1 | id2 | intersection_cardinality | jaccard_index
-----+-----+--------------------------+---------------
   1 |   2 |                        0 |           0.0
   1 |   3 |                        4 |           0.6
   2 |   3 |                        0 |           0.0
The above result listing points out, as expected, that the texts with the id 1 and 3 are quite similar. One may argue that the text with the id 2 is somewhat similar to the texts with the id 1 and 3. Due to the fact in the example above 4-shingles are taken into account for measuring the similarity of the texts, there are no intersections found for the text pairs 1 and 2, respectively 3 and 2 and therefore there the similarity index for these text pairs is 0.

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Data structures

Trino implements Set Digest data sketches by encapsulating the following components: The HyperLogLog structure is used for the approximation of the distinct elements in the original set. The MinHash structure is used to store a low memory footprint signature of the original set. The similarity of any two sets is estimated by comparing their signatures. The Trino type for this data structure is called setdigest. Trino offers the ability to merge multiple Set Digest data sketches.

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Serialization

Data sketches can be serialized to and deserialized from varbinary. This allows them to be stored for later use.

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Functions

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make_set_digest

make_set_digest(x) -> setdigest
Composes all input values of `x` into a `setdigest`.
Create a setdigest corresponding to a bigint array: 
SELECT make_set_digest(value)
FROM (VALUES 1, 2, 3) T(value);
Create a setdigest corresponding to a varchar array: 
SELECT make_set_digest(value)
FROM (VALUES 'Trino', 'SQL', 'on', 'everything') T(value);

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merge_set_digest

merge_set_digest(setdigest) -> setdigest
Returns the setdigest of the aggregate union of the individual setdigest Set Digest structures.

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cardinality

cardinality(setdigest) -> long
Returns the cardinality of the set digest from its internal HyperLogLog component. Examples: 
SELECT cardinality(make_set_digest(value))
FROM (VALUES 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5) T(value);
-- 5

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intersection_cardinality

intersection_cardinality(x,y) -> long
Returns the estimation for the cardinality of the intersection of the two set digests.

`x` and `y` must be of type  `setdigest`
Examples: 
SELECT intersection_cardinality(make_set_digest(v1), make_set_digest(v2))
FROM (VALUES (1, 1), (NULL, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4)) T(v1, v2);
-- 3

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jaccard_index

jaccard_index(x, y) -> double
Returns the estimation of Jaccard index for the two set digests. x and y must be of type setdigest. Examples: 
SELECT jaccard_index(make_set_digest(v1), make_set_digest(v2))
FROM (VALUES (1, 1), (NULL,2), (2, 3), (NULL, 4)) T(v1, v2);
-- 0.5

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hash_counts

hash_counts(x) -> map(bigint, smallint)
Returns a map containing the Murmur3Hash128 hashed values and the count of their occurences within the internal MinHash structure belonging to x. x must be of type setdigest. Examples: 
SELECT hash_counts(make_set_digest(value))
FROM (VALUES 1, 1, 1, 2, 2) T(value);
-- {19144387141682250=3, -2447670524089286488=2}