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Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook

Summary: Scuba is Facebook’s distributed, in-memory database for sub-minute, interactive analysis of massive live telemetry. It sustains millions of event ingests and expirations per second while aggregating queries across hundreds of servers, typically in under a second. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hb41cc0aacbfc13f8
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00010860462
Overall Rank
1,381 | 90.72%
DOI
10.14778/2536222.2536228

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BibTeX Citation

@article{abraham_vldb13,
        title = {{Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook}},
        author = {Abraham, Lior and Borkar, Vinayak and Merl, Daniel and Subramanian, Subbu and Allen, John and Chopra, Bhuwan and Metzler, Josh and Wiener, Janet L. and Barykin, Oleksandr and Gerea, Ciprian and Reiss, David and Zed, Okay},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1057--1068},
        doi = {10.14778/2536222.2536228},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536222.2536228},
        year = {2013}
}

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148 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.0002900671
1,303 Realtime Data Processing at Facebook 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001110427
2,137 Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach 2018 VLDB 8.9777553e-05
2,432 DDSketch: A Fast and Fully-Mergeable Quantile Sketch with Relative-Error Guarantees 2019 VLDB 8.4766851e-05
2,798 Moment-Based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregation Queries 2018 VLDB 7.9933329e-05
5,127 Fast Database Restarts at Facebook 2014 SIGMOD 6.2608485e-05
5,213 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 6.2250048e-05
5,930 Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data 2019 VLDB 5.9438354e-05
6,225 Providing Streaming Joins as a Service at Facebook 2018 VLDB 5.8455305e-05
6,275 Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse 2023 CIDR 5.8270783e-05
6,958 JetScope: Reliable and Interactive Analytics at Cloud Scale 2015 VLDB 5.634024e-05
7,701 Enabling Efficient and General Subpopulation Analytics in Multidimensional Data Streams 2022 VLDB 5.474978e-05
7,890 TSCache: An Efficient Flash-based Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads 2021 VLDB 5.4328058e-05
8,177 Data Management for Social Networking 2016 PODS 5.3829638e-05
8,281 Cubrick: Indexing Millions of Records per Second for Interactive Analytics 2016 VLDB 5.3633335e-05
8,341 DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems 2024 VLDB 5.3517356e-05
9,328 Meta's Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform 2022 VLDB 5.1923392e-05
11,268 Approximation-First Timeseries Query At Scale 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,298 STsCache: An Efficient Semantic Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads Based on Hybrid Storage 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,372 Scribe: How Meta transports terabytes per second in real time 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,651 The Case for DBMS Live Patching 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,861 Live Patching Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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