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Big Data in Real Time at Twitter
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Summary
Nick Kallen discusses how Twitter handles large amounts of data in real time by creating 4 data types and query patterns -tweets, timelines, social graphs, search indices-, and the DBs storing them.
Bio
Nick Kallen is a Systems Engineer at Twitter. He is the author of Arel, NamedScope, Cache Money, and Screw.Unit, and co-creator of FlockDb, Twitter's distributed graph database.
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Aug 03, 2011
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I have a question
by james xu,
Wrong query?
by José González D'Amico,
I have a question
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take a look: stackoverflow.com/questions/6960687/mysql-why-t...
Wrong query?
by José González D'Amico,
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Around minute 22, Mr. Kallen shows the query for the timeline executed in the original implementation.
In your timeline you see your friends' (AKA followees) tweets, not your followers'. And if I remember correctly, in the Twitter API source_id is a field of Tweets, not of Friends.
Perhaps the query should be this?
SELECT * FROM tweets
WHERE source_id IN
(SELECT user_id
FROM friends
WHERE destination_id = ?)
ORDER BY created_at DESC
LIMIT 20