Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook
Summary: Scuba is Facebook’s distributed, in-memory database for sub-minute, interactive analysis of massive live telemetry. It sustains millions of event ingests and expirations per second while aggregating queries across hundreds of servers, typically in under a second. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Lior Abraham (Meta)
- 2. Vinayak Borkar (Meta)
- 3. Daniel Merl (Meta)
- 4. Subbu Subramanian (Meta)
- 5. John Allen (Meta)
- 6. Bhuwan Chopra (Meta)
- 7. Josh Metzler (Meta)
- 8. Janet L. Wiener (Meta)
- 9. Oleksandr Barykin (Meta)
- 10. Ciprian Gerea (Meta)
- 11. David Reiss (Meta)
- 12. Okay Zed (Meta)
BibTeX Citation
@article{abraham_vldb13,
title = {{Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook}},
author = {Abraham, Lior and Borkar, Vinayak and Merl, Daniel and Subramanian, Subbu and Allen, John and Chopra, Bhuwan and Metzler, Josh and Wiener, Janet L. and Barykin, Oleksandr and Gerea, Ciprian and Reiss, David and Zed, Okay},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '13},
volume = {6},
number = {11},
pages = {1057--1068},
doi = {10.14778/2536222.2536228},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536222.2536228},
year = {2013}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00069513174 |
| 32 | Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00050111008 |
| 51 | Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets | 2010 | VLDB | 0.0004291425 |
| 425 | Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00018704491 |
| 575 | Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00016257033 |
| 1,225 | Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00011590013 |
| 2,207 | Shark: Fast Data Analysis Using Coarse-grained Distributed Memory | 2012 | SIGMOD | 8.9565862e-05 |
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