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TAO: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
This paper presents TAO, Facebook's solution for storing and efficiently serving its social graph. A data model, an API for querying this data model and the hardware infrastructure put in place for this are detailed, along with a real-world performance evaluation.
This presentation was part of the first Papers We Love meetup in Iasi, Romania, in January 2016.