Zen: Pinterest's Graph Storage Service - @Scale 2014 - Data
Xun Liu, Engineer at Pinterest and Raghavendra Prabhu, Engineering Manager at Pinterest
Zen is a storage service built at Pinterest that offers a graph data model on top of HBase and potentially other storage backends. Zen was originally conceived and built in summer 2013 and since then, has grown to be one of the our most widely used storage solutions, powering the home feed, interest graph, notifications, messages, and other upcoming features. In this talk, we'll go over the design motivation for Zen and briefly describe the data model, API, and internals.