Facebook Reveals new Social Graph Data
A new database benchmark for the Social Graph
Facebook continues to pull back the curtain on some of the technical details behind its search products, this time with a new look at the Social Graph. The social network's latest reveal is about LinkBench, a new database benchmark for the Social Graph, which is being released this week on GitHub. Touted as a tool for developers who need to benchmark and fine-tune database systems, LinkBench was designed to replicate the data model, graph structure, and request mix of Facebook's MySQL social graph workload.
Tim Armstrong, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Chicago and previously an intern on Facebook's database engineering team, asserted in a blog post today that LinkBench is a graph-serving benchmark - not a graph-processing benchmark. Armstrong explained that the difference is the former description "simulates the transactional workload from an interactive social network service while the latter simulates an analytics workload."
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