very interesting, can you elaborate and on it a little more?
I need quick fuzzy search on a low-end embedded device that has limited storage(both RAM and HDD), was thinking about putting the index on a server with plenty RAM then do websocket or RPC for that.
There's a very good blog post for the implementation details here: http://alexbowe.com/wavelet-trees/ I had a decent implementation in Python, but it's on my old macbook that I would need to dig up. If you're interested you can add me on telegram: @rightcheek.
Now to go with Wavelet trees you may or may not need to know about suffix arrays and optimal suffix array construction. Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array This is what's going to give you space efficiency in combination with a wavelet tree. And the wavelet tree also gives you good rank/select efficiency.
I'm in bioinformatics and the first time I implemented a wavelet tree to reduce the size of genomes in memory.. It was just breathtaking.