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Re:Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook by electrum on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:32AM (#6687745)
Facebook uses TAO for graphs: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-...

MySQL is used for storing textual user content like comments, etc. See https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Photos are stored using specialized systems: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/haystack.pdf

And you can see some pictures of our new data center used for cold storage of older photos: http://readwrite.com/2013/10/16/facebook-prineville-cold-sto...

Re:Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook by X4 on Thursday November 07, 2013 @05:46PM (#6693003)
wow thank you! Is there an opensource alternative comparable to TAO for Graphs? Neo4j is dead slow..