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Open-source, distributed, fault-tolerant graph database from Twitter

FlockDB (Wikipedia, Github development) is an open-source, distributed, fault-tolerant graph database. It is developed by , which uses it to store its database of users. FlockDB is written in mostly .

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How does FlockDB compare with neo4j?

Both FlockDB and neo4j are open source frameworks for keeping large graph dataset. Anyone familiar enough with both products to write a comparison?
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FlockDB - What is it? And best cases for it uses

Just came across FlockDB graph database. Details at github /flockDB. Twitter claims it uses FlockDB for the following: Twitter runs FlockDB on a large cluster of machines. we use it to store social graphs (who follows whom, who blocks whom)…
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What is the relation/difference between Amazon DynamoDB and FlockDB?

I am trying to implement incremental PageRank using Monte Carlo Sampling. My data includes millions of relational data between 20 different entities. I found Amazon DynamoDB and FlockDB to be two good candidates for my task as data storage. A brief…
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flockdb setup failed

I built twitter's graph-databases flockdb successfully. But when I run script 'setup-env.sh' under dist/flockdb/scripts, I got the following errors(from development.log): INF [20120807-19:01:36.635] stats: Starting LatchedStatsListener INF…
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flockdb - Has anyone successfully build it from git and installed it

I tried building flockdb from the sources from git, but couldn't do it. Am using Mac OSX 10.6 and getting lot of issues in thrift/boost installations. Has anyone successfully build it and installed it. Appreciate any pointer to information on…
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FlockDB setup failed with Exception for create_shard on localhost

Everyone, I am trying to use flockdb. And I followed this guide to setup it, https://stackoverflow.com/a/14223067/1700490, everything went fine until I tried to start flockdb with "setup-env.sh", here is the…
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Is a graph database the right way to represent hierarchical electric power distribution?

I have a time series database that takes in power meter data for a campus. Using this data has been a challenge, in part because the power distribution is a hierarchy. There are some cases where if you want to know how much power building X is…
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