FlockDB
FlockDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant, write-heavy graph database developed by Twitter, specifically designed for storing and querying adjacency lists for directed graphs. It was built to manage Twitter's social graph data, such as follower relationships, at massive scale with high throughput…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- FlockDB was created to address the significant scalability and performance limitations of traditional relational databases when storing and querying Twitter's massive social graph (e.g., follower/following relationships). It provided a highly scalable, fault-tolerant solution for adjacency list lookups that existing databases could not handle efficiently at billions of edges and high fan-out scenarios.
- Platforms
- Linux
Related technologies
Notable users
- Twitter (historically, no longer active)