Node-hashit NPM

node-hashit

Fast node.js hash library with sorting and typing. Provides Hasher class. stringifyit provides stringify Symbol to allow you customize stringifying your own classes.

Using node.js crypto module and stringifyit library. For browsers you can use crypto-browserify or only stringifyit library.

See benchmarks for compare to other libs.

Install

npm i node-hashit --save

Features

Supports node.js >= 4.0.0
Supports Map/WeakMap, Set/WeakSet and typed arrays
Supports algorithms and encodings from node.js crypto module
Supports sort Set, Map, object keys and optional sort arrays
Supports custom stringify rules for user-defined classes (provided by stringifyit library)
One of the fastest hash libraries

API

Classes

Functions

Hasher

Provides interface to hash any value

Kind: global class

Hasher
- new Hasher([options])
- instance
  - .update(value, [inputEncoding])
  - .digest([outputEncoding]) ⇒ string | Buffer
- inner
  - ~options : Stringifier~options

new Hasher(options)

Param	Type
options	options

hasher.update(value, inputEncoding)

Updates hash with stringified value

Kind: instance method of Hasher
Throws:

HashitRangeError

Param	Type	Description
value	*
inputEncoding	string	Input encoding

hasher.digest(outputEncoding) ⇒ string | Buffer

Kind: instance method of Hasher
See: https://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_hash_digest_encoding

Param	Type	Description
outputEncoding	string	Output encoding (if `null` Buffer will be returned)

Hasher~options : Stringifier~options

Kind: inner typedef of Hasher
See

Properties

Name	Type	Default	Description
algorithm	string	"md5"	Hash algorithm
inputEncoding	string	"utf8"	Input encoding
outputEncoding	string	"hex"	Output encoding (if `null` Buffer will be returned)

hashit(value, options) ⇒ string

Helper for simple hash single value

Kind: global function

Param	Type
value	*
options	options

Example

const {hashit} = require('node-hashit');

hashit({key: 'value', value: 'key'}) === hashit({value: 'key', key: 'value'}); // true
hashit(new Set(['value1', 'value2'])) === hashit(new Set(['value2', 'value1'])); // true
hashit(new Map([['key', 'value'], ['value', 'key']])) === hashit(new Map([['value', 'key'], ['key', 'value']])); // true
hashit([1, 2, 3]) === hashit([1, 2, 3]); // true
hashit([1, 2, 3], {sortArrays: true}) === hashit([1, 3, 2], {sortArrays: true}); // true

hashit([1, 2, 3]) === hashit([1, 3, 2]); // false
hashit(5) === hashit('5'); // false

Benchmarks

Benchmarked with Node.js v6.9.5

Usage

npm run benchOps to run comparison operations/second with other libs for different cases
npm run benchHeap to run comparison heap using with other libs for complex cases
npm run benchSpeed to run benchmarking hashit operations/second for different cases

Results

Operations/second comparison (+includePrimitiveTypes +sortArrays) source

hashit/array x 255,710 ops/sec ±1.54% (86 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/array x 174,084 ops/sec ±2.11% (84 runs sampled)
hashObject/array x 140,706 ops/sec ±1.56% (82 runs sampled)
objectHash/array x 48,767 ops/sec ±1.55% (88 runs sampled)

hashit/object x 426,051 ops/sec ±1.18% (82 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/object x 354,923 ops/sec ±1.59% (83 runs sampled)
hashObject/object x 350,324 ops/sec ±1.40% (84 runs sampled)
objectHash/object x 27,030 ops/sec ±1.39% (83 runs sampled)

hashit/nestedObject x 23,762 ops/sec ±1.33% (87 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/nestedObject x 16,252 ops/sec ±4.74% (81 runs sampled)
hashObject/nestedObject x 17,689 ops/sec ±1.92% (85 runs sampled)
objectHash/nestedObject x 657 ops/sec ±1.27% (84 runs sampled)

hashit/complexObject_5items x 19,677 ops/sec ±1.54% (86 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/complexObject_5items x 9,922 ops/sec ±1.58% (87 runs sampled)
hashObject/complexObject_5items x 2,561 ops/sec ±1.65% (84 runs sampled)
objectHash/complexObject_5items x 1,433 ops/sec ±1.37% (85 runs sampled)

hashit/complexObject_10items x 10,385 ops/sec ±1.58% (86 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/complexObject_10items x 4,906 ops/sec ±2.10% (86 runs sampled)
hashObject/complexObject_10items x 1,331 ops/sec ±1.21% (85 runs sampled)
objectHash/complexObject_10items x 722 ops/sec ±1.65% (82 runs sampled)

hashit/complexObject_100items x 944 ops/sec ±1.55% (84 runs sampled)
nodeObjectHash/complexObject_100items x 483 ops/sec ±1.72% (84 runs sampled)
hashObject/complexObject_100items x 129 ops/sec ±1.35% (70 runs sampled)
objectHash/complexObject_100items x 66.61 ops/sec ±1.44% (65 runs sampled)

hashit faster in cases: array, object, nestedObject, complexObject_5items, complexObject_10items, complexObject_100items (6)

Heap using comparison (+includePrimitiveTypes +sortArrays) source

Library	Time (ms)	Memory (Mb)
hashit-0.3.2	2120.435	42
node-object-hash-1.2.0	2635.670	39
object-hash-1.1.5	17325.391	62
hash-object-0.1.7	9762.324	51

Operations/second hashit benchmarking (+includePrimitiveTypes -sortArrays) source

array x 362,314 ops/sec ±0.97% (84 runs sampled)
object x 434,386 ops/sec ±1.78% (85 runs sampled)
nestedObject x 23,896 ops/sec ±1.35% (85 runs sampled)
complexObject_5items x 20,820 ops/sec ±1.56% (86 runs sampled)
complexObject_10items x 10,930 ops/sec ±1.55% (84 runs sampled)
complexObject_100items x 981 ops/sec ±1.68% (83 runs sampled)
set x 119,927 ops/sec ±2.33% (83 runs sampled)
map x 111,666 ops/sec ±2.27% (83 runs sampled)