Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/unicorn-a-system-for-searching-the-social-graph.pdf

• System

  • Change the storage

  • Change the workload

  • What would it look like?

• Recommendation

  • Going across the logical structure (logical entities are divided)

  • Too much data movement, and the aggregator will burn out

  • Filtering based system --> recommendation serving system

• Query workload

  • Queries?

• Matters for designing a system to serve this type of queries