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Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud

Summary: Distributed GraphLab brings asynchronous, dynamic graph-parallel ML to clusters with strong consistency, using pipelined locking/versioning to curb communication and Chandy–Lamport snapshots for fault tolerance. Demonstrates 10–100× speedups over Hadoop. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
10702
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00056944564
Overall Rank
20 | 99.87%
DOI
10.14778/2212351.2212354

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BibTeX Citation

@article{low_vldb12,
        title = {{Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud}},
        author = {Low, Yucheng and Gonzalez, Joseph and Kyrola, Aapo and Bickson, Danny and Guestrin, Carlos and Hellerstein, Joseph M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {8},
        pages = {716--727},
        doi = {10.14778/2212351.2212354},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2212351.2212354},
        year = {2012}
}

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012250108
452 An Architecture for Parallel Topic Models 2010 VLDB 0.00018146809
1,116 Large Graph Processing in the Cloud 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001210972
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