What’s Behind The Door Of Facebook’s ‘Data Store?’
Facebook offered some behind-the-scenes details about its TAO (The Association and Objects) server, which the social network referred to as its graph data store, in a note on the Facebook Engineering page by Software Engineer Mark Marchukov.
Facebook offered some behind-the-scenes details about its TAO (The Association and Objects) server, which the social network referred to as its graph data store, in a note on the Facebook Engineering page by Software Engineer Mark Marchukov.
Marchukov described TAO as follows:
Facebook puts an extremely demanding workload on its data back end. Every time any one of more than 1 billion active users visits Facebook through a desktop browser or on a mobile device, they are presented with hundreds of pieces of information from the social graph.
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