Big Graph Analytics Platforms

Due to the growing need to process large graph and network datasets created by modern applications, recent years have witnessed a surging interest in developing big graph platforms. Tens of such big graph systems have already been developed, but there lacks a systematic categorization and comparison of these systems. This article provides a timely and comprehensive survey of existing big graph systems, and summarizes their key ideas and technical contributions from various aspects. In addition to the popular vertex-centric systems which espouse a think-like-a-vertex paradigm for developing parallel graph applications, this survey also covers other programming and computation models, contrasts those against each other, and provides a vision for the future research on big graph analytics platforms. This survey aims to help readers get a systematic picture of the landscape of recent big graph systems, focusing not just on the systems themselves, but also on the key innovations and design philosophies underlying them. D. Yan, Y. Bu, Y. Tian, and A. Deshpande. Big Graph Analytics Platforms. Foundations and Trends © in Databases, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 1–195, 2015. DOI: 10.1561/1900000056.