Java Backend Technology

May 12, 2019 · Big Data

How 58.com Scales 10 B Posts with 10 K Attributes: Architecture Secrets

58.com tackles the challenge of storing and searching billions of heterogeneous posts by employing a unified post center, a category‑attribute service, and an external search engine, using vertical table splitting, JSON‑based extensible fields, compressed keys, and horizontally sharded indexes to achieve massive scalability and high throughput.