Facebook builds a database benchmark for a graph-powered world – Old GigaOmIf you’re doing any sort of social-media application, you might want to take note of what Facebook just built. The company has created a benchmarking tool called LinkBench that measures the performance of databases tasked with serving graph-structured data, which, presumably, is the lifeblood of every startup around that’s concerned with who’s connected to whom. Although, of all LinkBench’s featur
