--- title: "High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I" url: https://daily.dev/posts/high-throughput-graph-abstraction-at-netflix-part-i-0dei7ppuk source_url: https://netflixtechblog.com/high-throughput-graph-abstraction-at-netflix-part-i-e88063e6f6d5 type: article source: "Netflix TechBlog" published: 2026-05-29T19:12:26.685Z updated: 2026-05-29T19:12:52.056Z tags: ["architecture", "distributed-systems", "netflix"] reading_time: 15 upvotes: 34 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I **[Netflix TechBlog](https://daily.dev/sources/netflix)** · 15 min read · 34 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Netflix's Graph Abstraction is an OLTP-focused graph system handling up to 10 million operations per second across 650 TB of graph data with low latency. Built on top of existing Netflix data abstractions (Key-Value, TimeSeries, EVCache), it uses a Property Graph model with strongly typed schemas, forward/reverse edge indexes, and adjacency list storage. The architecture separates edge links from properties to prevent wide-row issues in Cassandra, employs write-aside and read-aside caching strategies, and enforces eventual consistency via Kafka-based entropy repair and async node deletions. A Gremlin-inspired gRPC traversal API supports multi-hop graph queries with filtering, sorting, and property selection pushdown. Single-hop traversals achieve single-digit millisecond p99 latency, while 2-hop traversals with high fanout stay under 50ms at p90. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Inside Netflix’s Graph Abstraction: Handling 650TB of Graph Data in Milliseconds Globally](https://daily.dev/posts/inside-netflix-s-graph-abstraction-handling-650tb-of-graph-data-in-milliseconds-globally-esbipovp0) · InfoQ · 25 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph for Internet Scale](https://daily.dev/posts/how-netflix-built-a-real-time-distributed-graph-for-internet-scale-1xkysklft) · ByteByteGo · 88 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#netflix](https://daily.dev/tags/netflix) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/high-throughput-graph-abstraction-at-netflix-part-i-0dei7ppuk)