Case Study: Popcorn Technologies achieves a scalable, near-zero-downtime social movie network with OrientDB

Popcorn uses OrientDB to scale its Social Movie Network

Popcorn is a social network for movie lovers created to keep short, discoverable conversations about films out of the noise on Facebook and Twitter. Founders Larry Aasen and Eric Ying needed a dependable, scalable, partitionable and low-cost database that could model social relationships (followers, likes, posts, timelines, saved/watched lists) without slow relational joins, so they evaluated MySQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4j and OrientDB.

They chose OrientDB for its native graph model, familiar SQL dialect, community features (scaling, replication) and strong community support (including the OrientGo client). The result was fast, simple deployment, reliable operation with almost zero downtime over 18 months, efficient linking of conversations and user relationships, and a low total cost of ownership.

Popcorn Technologies

Larry Aasen

CTO and Co-Founder