FlockDB
Graph-based distributed data manager, project no longer maintained since 2012
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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]
| FlockDB | |
|---|---|
| Original authors | Nick Kallen, Robey Pointer, John Kalucki and Ed Ceaser from Twitter |
| Developer | Twitter[1] |
| Initial release | April 2010 |
| Final release | 1.8.5
/ 23 February 2012[2] |
| Written in | Scala, Java, Ruby |
| Type | Graph Database |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | github |
| Repository | |
Twitter no longer supports FlockDB.[5]
