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title: "Discussion on \"The Facebook Journey to Reduce Social Graph Storage By Half (MyRocks)\" | Hashnode"
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# [The Facebook Journey to Reduce Social Graph Storage By Half (MyRocks)](https://mohaadel.hashnode.dev/the-facebook-journey-to-reduce-social-graph-storage-by-half-myrocks?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

TL;DR : In this article, we will go through the motivation why Facebook decided to change the InnoDB storage engine and replace it with MyRocks. Also, we explore how they designed MyRocks what are the challenges, how they planned for the migration, a...

Jun 22, 2021 · 10 min read · mohaadel.hashnode.dev  
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