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Apache Giraph

Apache Giraph is an Apache project to perform graph processing on big data. Giraph utilizes Apache Hadoop's MapReduce implementation to process graphs. Facebook used Giraph with some performance improvements to analyze one trillion edges using 200 machines in 4 minutes. Giraph is based on a paper published by Google about its own graph processing system called Pregel. It can be compared to other Big Graph processing libraries such as Cassovary.

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Apache Giraph
DeveloperApache Software Foundation
Stable release
1.3.0 / 11 June 2020 (2020-06-11)
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeGraph processing
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitegiraph.apache.org
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Apache Giraph is an Apache project to perform graph processing on big data. Giraph utilizes Apache Hadoop's MapReduce implementation to process graphs. Facebook used Giraph with some performance improvements to analyze one trillion edges using 200 machines in 4 minutes.1 Giraph is based on a paper published by Google about its own graph processing system called Pregel.2 It can be compared to other Big Graph processing libraries such as Cassovary.3

As of September 2023, it is no longer actively developed.4

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References

  1. Ching, Avery (August 14, 2013). "Scaling Apache Giraph to a trillion edges". Facebook. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. Jackson, Joab (Aug 14, 2013). "Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map". PC World. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. Harris, Derrick (Aug 14, 2013). "Facebook's trillion-edge, Hadoop-based and open source graph-processing engine". Gigaom. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  4. "Apache Giraph - Apache Attic".
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