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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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9,264 ExtraV: Boosting Graph Processing Near Storage with a Coherent Accelerator 2017 VLDB 5.2966026e-05
9,424 Hybrid Pulling/Pushing for I/O-Efficient Distributed and Iterative Graph Computing 2016 SIGMOD 5.2715528e-05
9,432 MITra: A Framework for Multi-Instance Graph Traversal 2023 VLDB 5.2701501e-05
9,532 Banyan: A Scoped Dataflow Engine for Graph Query Service 2022 VLDB 5.2537948e-05
9,570 Graphite: A NUMA-aware HPC System for Graph Analytics Based on a new MPI * X Parallelism Model 2020 VLDB 5.2528121e-05
9,616 ACGraph: An Efficient Asynchronous Out-of-Core Graph Processing Framework 2026 SIGMOD 5.2434488e-05
9,670 Optimistic Recovery for Iterative Dataflows in Action 2015 SIGMOD 5.2389261e-05
9,749 Auto-Approximation of Graph Computing 2014 VLDB 5.227679e-05
10,100 Parallel Colorful h-star Core Maintenance in Dynamic Graphs 2023 VLDB 5.1488731e-05
10,373 Gem: Scalable Monotonic Graph Processing Beyond Billion-Scale on a Single Machine 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,753 Clementi: Efficient Load Balancing and Communication Overlap for Multi-FPGA Graph Processing 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,797 Using Process Calculus for Optimizing Data and Computation Sharing in Complex Stateful Parallel Computations 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,982 Robust Recursive Query Parallelism in Graph Database Management Systems 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,096 A Single Machine System for Querying Big Graphs with PRAM 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,097 A CPU-GPU Hybrid Labelling Algorithm for Massive Shortest Distance Queries on Road Networks 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,208 Automating Vectorized Distributed Graph Computation 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,566 PACk: An Efficient Partition-based Distributed Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Deduplication 2022 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,669 Hybrid Evaluation for Distributed Iterative Matrix Computation 2021 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,714 RealGraphWeb: A Graph Analysis Platform on the Web 2021 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,842 Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,988 Graph Data Mining with Arabesque 2017 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,060 dmapply: A functional primitive to express distributed machine learning algorithms in R 2016 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,401 The Story of GraphLab - From Scaling Machine Learning to Shaping Graph Systems Research (VLDB 2023 Test-of-time Award Talk) 2023 VLDB -
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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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