Facebook, Inc.

Dmitri Petrov

Venkateshwaran Venkataramani

Venkatasiva Prasad Chakkabala

Mark V Marchukov

George Cabrera, Iii

In one embodiment, a system includes a database operative to maintain a social graph of an online social network, a leader cache layer, a plurality of servers, and a follower cache layer comprising one or more follower cache clusters, where each follower cache cluster maintains at least a portion of the social graph, and where the follower cache layer is operative to receive a command from the servers with instructions for updating a portion of the social graph, send the command to one of the leader cache layers, receive an acknowledgment of the command from one of the leader cache layers and a request to update; and update one or more of the follower cache clusters storing the portion of the social graph associated with the command.

Distributed cache for graph data

In one embodiment, a system includes a database; and a cache layer comprising one or more leader cache nodes, the one or more leader cache nodes operative to: communicate graph information between a follower cache layer and the database; receive a request from one of the follower cache nodes to store graph information in the database; update the database storing the graph responsive to the request; and update one or more of the follower cache nodes storing the portion of the graph associated with the request.

In one embodiment, a system includes a database; and a cache layer comprising one or more cache nodes, the one or more cache nodes operative to: maintain in a memory one or more data structures storing association information describing associations between nodes in a graph a plurality of distributed cache clusters for storing information in the form of a graph, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes, each uniquely identified by a node identifier, and edge information indicating associations between nodes; respond to queries for associations between nodes in the graph by accessing the memory; and forward other queries to the database for processing.

A distributed caching system for storing and serving information modeled as a graph that includes nodes and edges that define associations or relationships between nodes that the edges connect in the graph.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Dmitri Petrov