Honeycomb is inspired by Facebook's Scuba (https://research.facebook.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-at-facebook/ https://research.facebook.com/publicat

Honeycomb is inspired by Facebook's Scuba (https://research.facebook.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-at-facebook/ https://research.facebook.com/publications/scuba-diving-into...). The paper is from 2013, predating honeycomb. Charity worked there as well, but presumably was not part of the initial implementation given the timing.