Matthias Broecheler on the Titan Graph Database

Dr. Matthias Broecheler (http://www.matthiasb.com/) (linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiasbroecheler)), Project lead for the Titan graph database (http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/) and CTO of Aurelius, is coming to NYC to teach a full day workshop on Titan (http://titan-graph-nyc.eventbrite.com/).

We asked Matthias if he would spend an evening speaking to the NYC Cassandra group about Titan and Cassandra. As many of you know, Cassandra is the preferred back-end for Titan.

For those of you unfamiliar, Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users (http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/08/06/titan-provides-real-time-big-graph-data/) executing complex graph traversals (http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/05/13/educating-the-planet-with-pearson/).

In addition, Titan provides the following features: Elastic and linear scalability for a growing data and user base, data distribution and replication for performance and fault tolerance, multi-datacenter high availability and hot backups, and support for ACID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID) and eventual consistency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency).

For those of you already familiar with Titan, you may wish to also join Matthias for the full day Titan workshop in Manhattan:

http://titan-graph-nyc.eventbrite.com/

We've been trying to get Matthias to NYC for a few years now. This is a great opportunity to learn about Titan.