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Dependency chains, hierarchies, and citations are examples of directed graphs. In the former, each edge has a direction it goes from one vertex A to another one B, and not the other way around. One distinguishes “directed” and “undirected” graphs. Image courtesy of ArangoDB, used with permission. Example 3: A dependency chain as a graph. Citations between publications are naturally the edges of a graph. Hierarchies can be described by directed edges, which describe the ancestor/descendant relation. See Example 3 in Figure 2 for an illustration. So, I’ll just mention in passing that dependency chains between events can be described by directed edges between them. In this latter case, there can be many different edges between two given machines over time.Įxamples are actually so abundant that there is a danger to bore you by presenting too many in too great a detail. A variation of this is that the edges are actually happening in network connections, which will usually carry a timestamp. Images courtesy of ArangoDB, used with permission.Īnother example is computer networks, in which the individual machines and routers are the vertices and the edges describe direct connectivity between vertices. Usually in these examples, there will be one (or at most two in the follower case) edge(s) between any two given vertices. Note that in another incarnation of this example, edges can be “directed” (see Example 2 in Figure 1)-an edge from A to B can, for example, mean that A “follows” B, and this can happen without B following A. The prototypical example is a social network, in which the people in the network are the vertices of our graph, and their “friendship” relation is described by the edges: whenever person A is a friend of a person B, there is an edge in the graph between A and B, so edges are “undirected” (see Example 1 in Figure 1). Our tour through graph data land begins with a few examples of graphs in real-world data science. We in the community believe that exploring these graphs very quickly, using many local queries with graph or multi-model databases, is eminently feasible and greatly enhances our toolboxes to gain insight into our data. This article targets data scientists, people doing data analytics, and indeed anybody who has access to large amounts of graph data and would like to get more insight out of it. As an aside, we’ll take a little detour to discuss multi-model databases, which further enhances the possibilities of the presented approach. In this article, I’ll explain this approach of exploring small regions of a graph using specialized graph databases in detail by discussing graph queries and capabilities of graph databases, while presenting concrete use cases in real-world applications.

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Join the O'Reilly online learning platform. This makes it possible to use the results in interactive programs or graphical user interfaces. Therefore, we will explore another possibility, which is to extract your graph data-or at least a part of it-and store it in a specialized graph database, which is then able to run many relatively small ad-hoc queries with very low latency. For such smaller and rather ad-hoc workloads, it is not really worthwhile to launch a big job in Spark, even if you have to run many of them. But, there is even more information to be found in your graphs by inspecting many small regions of the graph, and I’ll present concrete examples in this article. Thus, it works great for workloads that essentially inspect the whole graph. Spark is generally very well suited for such tasks-it offers a great deal of parallelism and makes good use of distributed resources. As a consequence, people are able to run large-scale graph analytics, and thus derive a lot of value out of the data they have.

At the same time, there are very good analytics tools available, such as Spark with GraphX and the more recent GraphFrames libraries. Therefore, a lot of folks have huge amounts of data in graph format, typically sitting in some Hadoop file system as a table file for the vertices and a table file for the edges. Graphs in the sense of linked data with vertices and edges are everywhere these days: social networks, computer networks, and citations, to name but a few.

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