Living in the present
David M. Eyers, Tobias Freudenreich, Alessandro Margara, Sebastian Frischbier, Peter R. Pietzuch, Patrick Th. Eugster · 2012
Today's social web platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn, increasingly have to process large volumes of user-generated data on the fly. As the role of such platforms shifts from being portals for largely historic data towards providing platforms for real-time data analytics, we observe that their architectures incrementally move from storage-centric designs, based on distributed data management technologies, towards event-based models exploiting queueing and stream processing systems.