VERTEXICA: Your Relational Friend for Graph Analytics!

In this paper, we present Vertexica, a graph analytics tools on top of a relational database, which is user friendly and yet highly e›cient. Instead of constraining programmers to SQL, Vertexica offers a popular vertex-centric query interface, which is more natural for analysts to express many graph queries. e programmers simply provide their vertex-compute functions and Vertexica takes care of e›ciently executing them in the standard SQL engine. e advantage of using Vertexica is its ability to leverage the relational features and enable much more sophisticated graph analysis. ese include expressing graph algorithms which are di›cult in vertexcentric but straightforward in SQL and the ability to compose endto-end data processing pipelines, including preand postprocessing of graphs as well as combining multiple algorithms for deeper insights. Vertexica has a graphical user interface and we outline several demonstration scenarios including, interactive graph analysis, complex graph analysis, and continuous and time series analysis.