The streaming music space is heating up thanks to API services that put incredible amounts of music data in the hands of developers who want to build their own streaming services… Read more »
Teradata has upped the capabilities of its Teradata Aster big data platform by adding in a native graph-processing engine called SQL-GR. Not a bad idea considering the increased attention around graph… Read more »
A database vendor called Objectivity has created a mobile app called GraphMyLife that aims to let consumers explore links between the people and content in their various social networks. I say… Read more »
Facebook has detailed its extensive improvements to the open source Apache Giraph graph-processing platform. The project, which is built on top of Hadoop, can now process trillions of connections between people,… Read more »
Whether it’s ethically right or wrong to investigate deep into suspects’ networks of connections, the NSA certainly has the processing power to do it. “Three hops” away isn’t much when you… Read more »
Like every social media company, Pinterest had to build its own graph in order to keep track of how all its users — and their interests — are related. Here’s how… Read more »
Graph databases and graph-processing applications have been popping up all over the place lately, and now they’re starting to go commercial. On Tuesday, popular open source project GraphLab joined the ranks… Read more »
Facebook has built a new open source tool for benchmarking graph databases, called LinkBench. And although the chances are your infrastructure and workloads look nothing like Facebook’s, the good news is… Read more »
Medical researchers are using a mathematical process similar to Google PageRank in order to identify organs most likely to spread lung cancer throughout the human body. Read more »
Facebook Director of Engineering Lars Rasmussen held an Ask Me Anything session of Reddit on Thursday to talk about Graph Search. Here’s what he had to say about the infrastructure underlying… Read more »