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)
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Authors
- 1. Timothy G. Armstrong (University of Chicago)
- 2. Vamsi Ponnekanti (Meta)
- 3. Dhruba Borthakur (Meta)
- 4. Mark Callaghan (Meta)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{armstrong_sigmod13,
title = {{LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph}},
author = {Armstrong, Timothy G. and Ponnekanti, Vamsi and Borthakur, Dhruba and Callaghan, Mark},
series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465296},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465296},
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00044066403 |
| 106 | Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00033526937 |
| 974 | FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00012757454 |
| 1,302 | Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011111126 |
| 1,649 | BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions | 2013 | CIDR | 9.9836772e-05 |
| 3,431 | Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking | 2011 | VLDB | 7.3049534e-05 |
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