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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
h6bd1db7bdc5bb8b2
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00023594951
Overall Rank
238 | 98.41%
DOI
10.1145/2463676.2465296

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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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236 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00023639649
387 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload 2015 SIGMOD 0.00019360364
402 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00019070605
438 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00018259155
761 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00014191047
814 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.00013697533
1,147 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011777851
1,287 LiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans 2020 VLDB 0.00011181449
1,429 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010685393
1,487 LDBC Graphalytics: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Graph Analysis on Parallel and Distributed Platforms 2016 VLDB 0.00010496006
1,608 SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010074196
1,900 Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn 2019 CIDR 9.3926585e-05
2,667 Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores 2020 SIGMOD 8.1324472e-05
2,829 G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching 2020 SIGMOD 7.9469964e-05
2,977 Sortledton: a Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure 2022 VLDB 7.7781129e-05
3,066 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload 2023 VLDB 7.6714389e-05
3,123 RisGraph: A Real-Time Streaming System for Evolving Graphs to Support Sub-millisecond Per-update Analysis at Millions Ops/s 2021 SIGMOD 7.6082482e-05
3,208 Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity 2015 SIGMOD 7.5187209e-05
3,381 Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning 2019 SIGMOD 7.3408641e-05
3,489 Cosine: A Cloud-Cost Optimized Self-Designing Key-Value Storage Engine 2022 VLDB 7.2421958e-05
3,532 Key-Value Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 7.2054521e-05
4,783 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 6.4055647e-05
5,042 2R: Efficiently Isolating Cold Pages in Flash Storages 2020 VLDB 6.2897371e-05
5,082 InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond 2023 SIGMOD 6.2679091e-05
5,087 Spruce: A Fast yet Space-saving Structure for Dynamic Graph Storage 2024 SIGMOD 6.2664244e-05
5,468 ZipG: A Memory-efficient Graph Store for Interactive Queries 2017 SIGMOD 6.1027486e-05
5,690 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 6.0182427e-05
5,750 Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases 2014 SIGMOD 5.9907271e-05
5,785 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 5.9771676e-05
6,031 Near-Data Processing in Database Systems on Native Computational Storage under HTAP Workloads 2022 VLDB 5.8909681e-05
6,137 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8576977e-05
6,558 Memento Filter: A Fast, Dynamic, and Robust Range Filter 2024 SIGMOD 5.7292202e-05
6,662 SHARE Interface in Flash Storage for Relational and NoSQL Databases 2016 SIGMOD 5.7012926e-05
7,049 BP-tree: Overcoming the Point-Range Operation Tradeoff for In-Memory B-trees 2023 VLDB 5.5967284e-05
7,126 GraphMineSuite: Enabling High-Performance and Programmable Graph Mining Algorithms with Set Algebra 2021 VLDB 5.580601e-05
7,222 BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data 2014 VLDB 5.5655505e-05
7,393 LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs 2023 VLDB 5.5202899e-05
7,427 Galaxybase: A High Performance Native Distributed Graph Database for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.5140658e-05
7,482 M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.5009081e-05
7,925 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4086685e-05
8,200 Data Management for Social Networking 2016 PODS 5.3626246e-05
8,610 Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data 2024 VLDB 5.2890649e-05
8,638 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.2825944e-05
8,699 Enabling Window-Based Monotonic Graph Analytics with Reusable Transitional Results for Pattern-Consistent Queries 2024 VLDB 5.2717835e-05
8,876 Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage 2022 SIGMOD 5.2452058e-05
8,912 Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage 2022 VLDB 5.236464e-05
9,102 The LDBC Financial Benchmark: Transaction Workload 2025 VLDB 5.208561e-05
9,162 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2035666e-05
9,213 FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction 2023 VLDB 5.1926696e-05
9,215 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 5.1921944e-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
47 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00043937456
106 Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00033563032
975 FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store 2010 VLDB 0.00012720722
1,308 Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook 2011 SIGMOD 0.0001107127
1,657 BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions 2013 CIDR 9.9482782e-05
3,442 Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking 2011 VLDB 7.2783187e-05
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