---
title: "How PayPal uses Graph Databases"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-paypal-uses-graph-databases-bmkog1hfx
source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/paypal-uses-graph-databases
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2024-02-04T14:04:40.179Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:03:37.463Z
tags: ["architecture", "paypal", "fraud-detection"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 9
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How PayPal uses Graph Databases

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 11 min read · 9 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

PayPal uses graph databases for fraud detection, analyzing user data through asset sharing, transaction patterns, and graph features. The architecture involves Aerospike and Gremlin with separate read and write paths.

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#paypal](https://daily.dev/tags/paypal), [#fraud-detection](https://daily.dev/tags/fraud-detection)

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