China's Zillow alternative goes open source to scale a 10 billion node graph database
With more than two billion real estate listings, KE Holdings' cloud search architects struggled to keep up with the explosive growth, with added pressure from its imminent summer 2020 IPO. To improve performance of search results against the backdrop of massive user demand, the architects built a new stack on open source software that not only improved performance but also security while delivering more results faster and at a lower cost.