Flockdb: A Simple Graph Database for Social Media Training Course

Duration

7 hours (usually 1 day including breaks)

Requirements

  • An understanding of database concepts
  • Experience with the command line

Overview

FlockDB is an open source distributed, fault-tolerant graph database for managing wide but shallow network graphs. It was initially used by Twitter to store relationships among users.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up and use a FlockDB database to help answer social media questions such as who follows whom, who blocks whom, etc.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Install and configure FlockDB
  • Understand the unique features of FlockDB, relative to other graph databases such Neo4j
  • Use FlockDB to maintain a large graph dataset
  • Use FlockDB together with MySQL to provide provide distributed storage capabilities
  • Query, create and update extremely fast graph edges
  • Scale FlockDB horizontally for use in on-line, low-latency, high throughput web environments

Audience

  • Developers
  • Database engineers

Format of the course

  • Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course Outline

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