Facebook’s New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
April 13th, 2011Via: High Scalability:
The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook’s brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basically anything that people can do is captured and fed back through Facebook and anything done on Facebook can be displayed on your website, building closer relations between the two.
Research Credit: Matt