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Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph

Summary: Unicorn adapts in-memory information-retrieval indexing to search trillions of social-graph edges with socially proximate ranking at Facebook scale. Its distinctive apply/extract operators support multi-hop, semantically rich graph queries with subsecond latency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
10740
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
7.362886e-05
Overall Rank
3,499 | 76.00%
DOI
10.14778/2535568.201

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@article{curtiss_vldb13,
        title = {{Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph}},
        author = {Curtiss, Michael and Becker, Iain and Bosman, Tudor and Doroshenko, Sergey and Grijincu, Lucian and Jackson, Tom and Kunnatur, Sandhya and Lassen, Soren and Pronin, Philip and Sankar, Sriram and Shen, Guanghao and Woss, Gintaras and Yang, Chao and Zhang, Ning},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1150--1161},
        doi = {10.14778/2535568.201},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535568.201},
        year = {2013}
}

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