Everything that is entered into Facebook is sent to an isolated monastery in northern Europe where monks work all day and night to memorize incoming data. When a request for data comes in, it gets sent to the monastary and the monk responsible for remembering the information recites it to an operator that keys it in and sends it back. courtesy: stackoverflow :P
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Akshata Sharma <[email protected]>wrote: > MapReduce is not a db, its an framework right? > > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Akshay Rastogi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fb dont use relational dbs for sure.. they use MapReduce >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Akshata Sharma <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Also, is the database they use relational database? or is it cloud DB? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Akshata Sharma < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> How facebook stores all the user information? I am talking in terms of >>>> scalability, their spread servers, and how the friend information, common >>>> friends, etc is stored for a user? Can someone give me some explanation >>>> about this? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> AKSHAY RASTOGI >> BE(Hons) CS >> BITS PILANI , Pilani >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
