How does social media store their data?

Question

how does the social media like Facebook store people's post and comment, and the friend list?

Answer 1

https://atscaleconference.com/
The @Scale conference is where the heavy lifters (and startups alike) talk about their challenges, from data to not-Silicon-Valley consumers.

The conference site only goes back to 2016, but there are plenty of earlier videos you can just search for using, e.g., "atscale facebook".

Answer 2

nice question but ....they dont use stuff like super computers nd all. ????????

Answer 3

There is no general rule. But many companies blog about their tech stack.

Large web companies often adopt NoSQL solutions. For friends graph databases are a natural fit. But that doesn't mean more traditional tools wouldn't work.

Answer 4

They use data stack server

Answer 5

@Kirk Schafer Wow, Thanks, i'll check it out...

Answer 6

hmmm, okay hehehe