2013 UnicornASystemforSearchingtheSo

• (Curtiss et al., 2013) ⇒ Michael Curtiss, Iain Becker, Tudor Bosman, Sergey Doroshenko, Lucian Grijincu, Tom Jackson, Sandhya Kunnatur, Soren Lassen, Philip Pronin, Sriram Sankar, Guanghao Shen, Gintaras Woss, Chao Yang, and Ning Zhang. (2013). “Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph.” In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment Journal, 6(11). doi:10.14778/2536222.2536239

Subject Headings: facebook's Unicorn GraphDB, Graph Query Language.

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2015

• (Wu et al., 2015) ⇒ Ming Wu, Fan Yang, Jilong Xue, Wencong Xiao, Youshan Miao, Lan Wei, Haoxiang Lin, Yafei Dai, and Lidong Zhou. (2015). “G Ra M: Scaling Graph Computation to the Trillions.” In: Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. ISBN:978-1-4503-3651-2 doi:10.1145/2806777.2806849

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Abstract

Unicorn is an online, in-memory social graph-aware indexing system designed to search trillions of edges between tens of billions of users and entities on thousands of commodity servers. Unicorn is based on standard concepts in information retrieval, but it includes features to promote results with good social proximity. It also supports queries that require multiple round-trips to leaves in order to retrieve objects that are more than one edge away from source nodes. Unicorn is designed to answer billions of queries per day at latencies in the hundreds of milliseconds, and it serves as an infrastructural building block for Facebook's Graph Search product. In this paper, we describe the data model and query language supported by Unicorn. We also describe its evolution as it became the primary backend for Facebook's search offerings.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2013 UnicornASystemforSearchingtheSo	Michael Curtiss Iain Becker Tudor Bosman Sergey Doroshenko Lucian Grijincu Tom Jackson Sandhya Kunnatur Soren Lassen Philip Pronin Sriram Sankar Guanghao Shen Gintaras Woss Chao Yang Ning Zhang			Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph				10.14778/2536222.2536239		2013