HydraBase: The Evolution Of The Technology Behind Facebook’s 2010 Revamp Of Messages

The average Facebook user has never heard of HydraBase, but the souped-up version of Apache HBase, an open-source distributed key value data store running on top of HDFS, was instrumental in the social network’s move in 2010 to revamp its messages inbox to include Facebook messages, SMS, chat, and email. Since then, the technology has been use to launch other features, as well.

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HydraBase: The Evolution Of The Technology Behind Facebook’s 2010 Revamp Of Messages