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title: "Monkchips in 3 Minutes Episode 2: Panama Papers, Gorilla, Financials."
date: 2016-05-05T18:07:53Z
modified: 2016-05-05T18:07:53Z
permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/monkchips-in-3-minutes-episode-2-panama-papers-gorilla-financials/"
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status: publish
excerpt: ""
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categories:
  - Uncategorized
tags:
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  - cloud
  - facebook
  - HBase
  - Panama Papers
timestamp: 2016-05-05T18:07:53Z
---

The new format.

In which I talk about how [The Panama Papers](https://panamapapers.icij.org/) site, which is a great piece of work. You’ve read the news story, now check out the actual source material, which is powered by [Neo4j](http://neo4j.com/).

I also talk about [the morning paper](https://blog.acolyer.org/) by Adrian Colyer, in particular [his take](https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/03/gorilla-a-fast-scalable-in-memory-time-series-database/) [a scientific paper](http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf) on Facebook’s absurd scale time series database Gorilla – it stores **one trillion events** per day in memory, as an in memory cache for Facebook’s logs for troubleshooting, then archived in HBase. Gorilla is optimised for writes and high availability.

Then filthy lucre – recent financial news from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. Today the 4 Comma club is about trillions of events. One of these cloud companies however is going to be valued at over a trillion dollars at some point, possibly soon.

Anyway – hope you like Mi3M. Let me know what you think, and please do subscribe on Youtube.