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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2016
Proofpoint, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Justin Patterson, Austin, TX (US);
PROOFPOINT, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products for efficiently storing and accessing graph-oriented information retrieved from disparate sources using an interface that effectively emulates a graph database to access a set of indexed, column-oriented tables. One embodiment is a system that includes a server and a plurality of storage nodes. The server retrieves graph-oriented social networking data for multiple users, identifies vertices, edges and associated properties within the data and stores this information in key-value lookup tables within a column-oriented database. The server can receive graph-oriented queries, convert the graph-oriented query to corresponding key-value lookup queries, and search the tables of the column-oriented database using the key-value lookup queries. The results of the lookup queries can be converted to a graph-oriented representation and presented to a user.