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A distributed, fault-tolerant graph database

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2010-04-12 · latest 2016-10-25

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  1. …- https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ [3] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [4] Gizzard, a flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores -…
    comment by niftich · 2016-10-25 · in Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
  2. …- https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ [4] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [5] Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode -…
    comment by niftich · 2016-07-13 · in Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left
  3. Yeah, FlockDB ( https://github.com/twitter/flockdb ) comes to mind. I think Titan ( https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan ) should / will be able to handle this too.
    comment by mhluongo · 2013-11-11 · in Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
  4. Twitter does this. Flockdb is built ontop of an RDBMS http://github.com/twitter/flockdb the downside is that unlike a proper graph database (such as neo4j) you can only query a single hop per SQL query (which is fine for twitter, since…
    comment by nikcub · 2012-03-16 · in Graphs in the database: SQL meets social networks
  5. …want to look at Twitter's FlockDB[1], LinkedIn's Kafka[2], and/or Facebook's Scribe[3]. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [2]: http://sna-projects.com/kafka/ [3]: https://github.com/facebook/scribe FlockDB is designed to deal with…
    comment by mindcrime · 2011-03-22 · in Ask HN: how does Facebook/Twitter manages friend/follower relationships
  6. …Twitter has built a lot on top of MySQL to get to the scale they're at. Take FlockDB for example, https://github.com/twitter/flockdb So I guess that statement should be written as "you can't scale with just those". :)
    comment by ethangunderson · 2011-01-31 · in MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark
  7. …some time with the Programming Scala book, and probably fiddling around with Twitter's FlockDB ( https://github.com/twitter/flockdb/ ) a little.
    comment by mindcrime · 2010-12-21 · in Ask HN: What Will You Be Hacking Over the Holidays?
  8. They're also using their own FlockDB ( http://github.com/twitter/flockdb ) to store their social graph.
    comment by c3o · 2010-07-10 · in Cassandra at Twitter Today