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29th September 2008 - Link Blog

A Brief Tour of Graphd. The secret sauce behind Freebase—a custom written graph server that models everything as a typed, versioned relationship and can churn through over 3,000 simple queries a second on a single AMD64 core.

Posted 29th September 2008 at 11:32 am

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