CityHash

A fork of Python wrapper around CityHash <https://github.com/google/cityhash>__ with downgraded version of algorithm. This fork used as 3-rd party library for hashing data in ClickHouse protocol. Unfortunately ClickHouse server comes with built-in old version of this algorithm.

Please use original python-cityhash <https://github.com/escherba/python-cityhash>_ package for other purposes.

Getting Started

To use this package in your program, simply type

.. code-block:: bash

pip install clickhouse-cityhash

See Also

For other fast non-cryptographic hashing implementations available as Python extensions, see MetroHash <https://github.com/escherba/python-metrohash>__ and xxh <https://github.com/lebedov/xxh>__.

Authors

The Python bindings were originally written by Alexander [Amper] Marshalov and were subsequently edited for more speed/versatility and packaged for PyPI by Eugene Scherba. The original CityHash algorithm is by Google.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license>_. See the included LICENSE file for more information.