The NoSQL database gets its name ... mobile support, and an SQL-like API for more complex queries. Cassandra began as a project inside Facebook to support the social media giant’s vast ...

Existing database and analytics technology ... the more established kind of technologies like SQL too. But the really cool part is that Facebook gives Presto away for free to anybody who wants ...

This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database loads. Greene explained that to handle the more "than 1.23 billion people who use Facebook to share and connect with each other ...

Recently we described an idea called the database of affinity: A catalogue of people’s tastes and preferences collected by observing their social behaviors on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Comparing that strategy to a declarative SQL query, how to project, how to sort, and all processing specified is left to the database. What we’re left with is an easier-to-read and write ...