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LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph

Summary: LinkBench: a synthetic benchmark derived from production Facebook social-graph traces. It characterizes data and workloads to yield a realistic, challenging test for persistent storage of social/web-service data, addressing gaps in existing benchmarks for DB research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4705
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00029084275
Overall Rank
281 | 98.05%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
339 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00026895683
530 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload 2015 SIGMOD 0.00020823189
568 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00019932335
608 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00019233548
1,309 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00012655712
1,368 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.0001235708
1,424 LiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans 2020 VLDB 0.00012044472
1,614 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011137963
2,112 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 9.5244583e-05
2,128 SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store 2015 SIGMOD 9.4804485e-05
2,201 LDBC Graphalytics: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Graph Analysis on Parallel and Distributed Platforms 2016 VLDB 9.3042485e-05
2,606 Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn 2019 CIDR 8.4621503e-05
3,517 Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity 2015 SIGMOD 7.0183022e-05
3,545 Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores 2020 SIGMOD 6.9831585e-05
3,644 G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching 2020 SIGMOD 6.8842065e-05
3,670 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload 2023 VLDB 6.8557811e-05
3,733 Sortledton: a Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure 2022 VLDB 6.8067988e-05
3,840 Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning 2019 SIGMOD 6.7098606e-05
4,091 RisGraph: A Real-Time Streaming System for Evolving Graphs to Support Sub-millisecond Per-update Analysis at Millions Ops/s 2021 SIGMOD 6.4529617e-05
4,227 Cosine: A Cloud-Cost Optimized Self-Designing Key-Value Storage Engine 2022 VLDB 6.3381409e-05
4,436 2R: Efficiently Isolating Cold Pages in Flash Storages 2020 VLDB 6.1840937e-05
4,987 ZipG: A Memory-efficient Graph Store for Interactive Queries 2017 SIGMOD 5.7769841e-05
5,313 Key-Value Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5711707e-05
5,473 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 5.4886728e-05
5,573 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 5.4268881e-05
5,749 InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond 2023 SIGMOD 5.3420354e-05
5,804 Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases 2014 SIGMOD 5.3197672e-05
5,857 Spruce: A Fast yet Space-saving Structure for Dynamic Graph Storage 2024 SIGMOD 5.2970837e-05
6,005 GraphMineSuite: Enabling High-Performance and Programmable Graph Mining Algorithms with Set Algebra 2021 VLDB 5.2365238e-05
6,101 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 5.206206e-05
6,484 SHARE Interface in Flash Storage for Relational and NoSQL Databases 2016 SIGMOD 5.0386535e-05
7,195 BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data 2014 VLDB 4.799032e-05
7,325 LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs 2023 VLDB 4.7564908e-05
7,623 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 4.6890662e-05
7,689 Near-Data Processing in Database Systems on Native Computational Storage under HTAP Workloads 2022 VLDB 4.6727982e-05
7,892 M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads 2023 VLDB 4.6200834e-05
7,926 Data Management for Social Networking 2016 PODS 4.6107647e-05
7,990 BP-tree: Overcoming the Point-Range Operation Tradeoff for In-Memory B-trees 2023 VLDB 4.6086117e-05
8,011 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 4.6022693e-05
8,218 Galaxybase: A High Performance Native Distributed Graph Database for HTAP 2024 VLDB 4.5515694e-05
8,480 Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data 2024 VLDB 4.4967501e-05
8,624 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 4.4786127e-05
8,722 Memento Filter: A Fast, Dynamic, and Robust Range Filter 2024 SIGMOD 4.4558244e-05
8,797 Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage 2022 SIGMOD 4.4444672e-05
8,806 Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage 2022 VLDB 4.44219e-05
9,069 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 4.3983078e-05
9,322 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 4.351469e-05
9,347 NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs 2023 VLDB 4.3512358e-05
9,372 FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction 2023 VLDB 4.3461481e-05
9,390 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.341433e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
54 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.0006582344
145 Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00041403894
1,147 FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store 2010 VLDB 0.00013660843
1,211 BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions 2013 CIDR 0.00013259096
1,497 Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook 2011 SIGMOD 0.00011668393
2,996 Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking 2011 VLDB 7.7580926e-05
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