FlockDB
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| Original author(s) | Nick Kallen, Robey Pointer, John Kalucki and Ed Ceaser from Twitter |
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| Developer(s) | Twitter[1] |
| Initial release | April 2010 |
| Final release | 1.8.5
/ 23 February 2012[2] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Scala, Java, Ruby |
| Type | Graph Database |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | github |
FlockDB was an open-source distributed, fault-tolerant graph database for managing wide but shallow network graphs.[3] It was initially used by Twitter to store relationships between users, e.g. followings and favorites. FlockDB differs from other graph databases, e.g. Neo4j in that it was not designed for multi-hop graph traversal but rather for rapid set operations, not unlike the primary use-case for Redis sets.[4] FlockDB was posted on GitHub shortly after Twitter released its Gizzard framework, which it used to query the FlockDB distributed datastore. The database is licensed under the Apache License.[1]
Twitter no longer supports FlockDB.[5]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "FlockDB System Properties". db-engines.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
- ^ "FlockDB 1.8.5 released". Twitter. February 22, 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Gigaom | Twitter Open-sources the Home of Its Social Graph". gigaom.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
- ^ "GitHub - twitter-archive/flockdb: A distributed, fault-tolerant graph database". github.com. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
- ^ "GitHub - twitter-archive/flockdb: A distributed, fault-tolerant graph database". github.com. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
Twitter is no longer maintaining this project or responding to issues or PRs.