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TAO: How Facebook Serves the Social Graph

Summary: TAO stores Facebook’s social graph as typed nodes (fbobjects) and typed edges (associations). A simple API exposes queries over same-typed associations leaving an object; TAO is a distributed graph store that has served production traffic at Facebook for more than 2 years. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4664
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
7.7176906e-05
Overall Rank
3,140 | 78.46%
DOI
10.1145/2213836.2213957

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@inproceedings{venkataramani_sigmod12,
        title = {{TAO: How Facebook Serves the Social Graph}},
        author = {Venkataramani, Venkat and Amsden, Zach and Bronson, Nathan and Cabrera, George and Chakka, Prasad and Dimov, Peter and Ding, Hui and Ferris, Jack and Giardullo, Anthony and Hoon, Jeremy and Kulkarni, Sachin and Lawrence, Nathan and Marchukov, Mark and Petrov, Dmitri and Puzar, Lovro},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213957},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213957},
        year = {2012}
}

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