Big Graph Analytics Platforms

Abstract

Due to the growing need to process large graph and network datasetscreated by modern applications, recent years have witnessed a surginginterest in developing big graph platforms. Tens of such big graphsystems have already been developed, but there lacks a systematic categorizationand comparison of these systems. This article provides atimely and comprehensive survey of existing big graph systems, andsummarizes their key ideas and technical contributions from variousaspects. In addition to the popular vertex-centric systems which espousea think-like-a-vertex paradigm for developing parallel graph applications,this survey also covers other programming and computationmodels, contrasts those against each other, and provides a vision forthe future research on big graph analytics platforms. This survey aimsto help readers get a systematic picture of the landscape of recent biggraph systems, focusing not just on the systems themselves, but alsoon the key innovations and design philosophies underlying them.