Data Storage on Social Networking Sites
Social Networking The phenomenon of social networking has taken over the web in recent days. People are joining social networking sites every day. A large population of the world is found on such social networking sites (SNS's). So massive data is generated each day on such social networking sites. Now as everyone knows what are social networking sites? I won't go into details of it. I will simply focus on the point of discussion i.e. storage issues. Challenges and Issues related to data storage on SNS's: With the 1 billion user base, social networking sites are facing number of challenges to provide better services to their users. In Facebook itself there are more than 500 million users wherein 700000 users are online at any instant of time. Just imagine how efficient and smart should be the way of storage of data for such a huge data base. The storage will become impossible if we will restrict to only one database. Relational databases do not support scaling to an extent