Some time ago I wrote a post about the graph data processing with streams. That article was based on X-Stream framework proposed by the searchers of EPFL research institute. At this occasion, I also mentioned the existence of newer alternative for X-Stream, adapted for distributed workloads, called Chaos. I voluntary omitted the explanation of Chaos in the previous post. Putting it aside of X-Stream would introduce too many new concepts. But now, after some weeks of graph processing discoveries, I would like to return to the successor of X-Stream and present it more in details.
Previously described vertex-centric model is not the single one used to process graph data. Another one uses subgraphs as the processing unit.
Use cases of streaming surprise me more and more. In my recent research about graph processing in Big Data era I found a paper presenting the graph framework working on vertices and edges directly from a stream. In case you've missed that paper I'll try to present this idea to you.
Graph data processing, even though seems to be less popular than streaming or files processing, is an important member of data-oriented systems. And as its "colleagues", it also has some different processing logics. The first described in this blog is called vertex-centric.
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