Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook

Summary: Scuba: Facebook's in-memory, distributed DB for real-time analytics on live data. Ingests millions of rows per second, RAM-resident on hundreds of servers, delivering sub-second interactive queries for code regression, bug monitoring, and performance debugging. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10543
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00011701099
Overall Rank: 1,487 | 89.66%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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210	Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database	2015	VLDB	0.0003404384
1,613	Realtime Data Processing at Facebook	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011140777
2,772	Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach	2018	VLDB	8.1401661e-05
2,914	DDSketch: A Fast and Fully-Mergeable Quantile Sketch with Relative-Error Guarantees	2019	VLDB	7.9118579e-05
2,953	Moment-Based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregation Queries	2018	VLDB	7.8267643e-05
5,120	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	5.6803959e-05
5,532	A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew	2015	SIGMOD	5.4548897e-05
6,298	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.1226987e-05
6,436	Providing Streaming Joins as a Service at Facebook	2018	VLDB	5.0636254e-05
6,715	Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse	2023	CIDR	4.9509939e-05
7,067	JetScope: Reliable and Interactive Analytics at Cloud Scale	2015	VLDB	4.8440936e-05
7,534	Enabling Efficient and General Subpopulation Analytics in Multidimensional Data Streams	2022	VLDB	4.7180004e-05
7,747	TSCache: An Efficient Flash-based Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads	2021	VLDB	4.6616405e-05
7,998	Data Management for Social Networking	2016	PODS	4.6101889e-05
8,119	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	4.5809563e-05
8,357	Cubrick: Indexing Millions of Records per Second for Interactive Analytics	2016	VLDB	4.5373339e-05
9,111	Meta's Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform	2022	VLDB	4.3942367e-05
10,608	Approximation-First Timeseries Query At Scale	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,649	STsCache: An Efficient Semantic Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads Based on Hybrid Storage	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,766	Scribe: How Meta transports terabytes per second in real time	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,127	The Case for DBMS Live Patching	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,354	Live Patching Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059533166
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
542	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00020595648
858	Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth	2012	SIGMOD	0.000158756
1,470	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.00011833779
2,488	Shark: Fast Data Analysis Using Coarse-grained Distributed Memory	2012	SIGMOD	8.6683713e-05

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281	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.0002906793
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1,613	Realtime Data Processing at Facebook	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011140777
2,658	Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure at Facebook	2010	SIGMOD	8.3607429e-05
5,120	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	5.6803959e-05
9,111	Meta's Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform	2022	VLDB	4.3942367e-05