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Design Meta's Social Graph Storage System — billions of relationships at query speed.
The graph-at-social-network-scale problem: how billions of friendships and follow relationships are stored and queried, how the graph is partitioned across machines without making common queries prohibitively expensive, and how operations like mutual-friends or second-degree-connections execute efficiently at this scale.
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Design Meta's Social Graph Storage System — billions of relationships at query speed.