Facebook
is one of the leading social networking websites in the world with a user base
amounting to over 1 billion. Now, that’s a whopping figure! It is vastly
popular among its users, and now even with the developer community as it
continues its large-hearted offerings to the developer community in software companies in Malaysia and around the world. Barely a month after opening up its
Presto distributed SQL query engine to the open source community, Facebook has
now opened the gates to its embedded database code. This announcement has
software development companies in Malaysia, licking their lips at the thought
of the tremendous database customization potential that is now within their
grasp. RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store for rapid storage
and low latency - ideal for apps that do not tolerate slow access timeframes.
RocksDB
is one of the solutions that allow those lightning-quick updates to appear on
your Facebook home pages. Maintaining a dynamic home page for every user based
on his/her likes or dislikes is difficult, let alone getting it to load with
next to zero delay. This is astutely achieved using RocksDB that inherits its
properties from Google's LevelDB open source key value database library.
As a
software company in Malaysia or around the globe that dabbles in open source
development you are sure to wonder where RocksDB can work.
- User-side apps that cache history and website states
- Rapid access applications like the ones that detect spam
- Graph and chart generation apps that parse data sets dynamically
- And many more...
We are
a leading software development company in Malaysia and are excited at this new
development from Facebook. We dabble actively in Facebook app development, and
so getting open source access to RocksDB opens up a world of opportunities for
us. Feel free to drop in and comment on this latest development.
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