As the operator of the dominant messenger application in South Korea, KakaoTalk has more than 170 million users, and our ever-growing graph has more than 10B edges and 200M vertices. This scale presents several technical challenges for storing and querying the graph data, but we have resolved them by creating a new distributed graph database with HBase. Here you'll learn the methodology and architecture we used to solve the problems, compare it another famous graph database, Titan, and explore the HBase issues we encountered.