Venice, which was developed in late 2015, is a key-value store platform built for serving read-heavy workloads and optimized for serving derived data. Since being deployed to production in 2016, it has become very popular in the recommendation world to serve derived datasets inside LinkedIn. Venice handles single-get and small batch-get requests very efficiently...

Over the last two years at LinkedIn, we have been working on a distributed key-value database called “Venice.” Venice is designed to be a significant improvement to Voldemort Read-Only for serving derived data. We’ve built out the rest of the functionality to complete the dream that motivated the construction of Venice: the ability to consume data from both...