An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems

Summary: Comparison of Pregel-like systems (Giraph, GPS, Mizan, GraphLab) on four algorithms: PageRank, SSSP, WCC, MST across 128 EC2 nodes. Optimization effects: Giraph and GraphLab outperform; 1.0.0 gains over prior versions, with room for improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10953
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 0.00011258552
Overall Rank: 1,300 | 91.09%
DOI: 10.14778/2732977.2732979

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Authors

1. Minyang Han (University of Waterloo)
2. Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo)
3. Khaled Ammar (University of Waterloo)
4. M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo)
5. Xingfang Wang (University of Waterloo)
6. Tianqi Jin (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{han_vldb14,
        title = {{An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems}},
        author = {Han, Minyang and Daudjee, Khuzaima and Ammar, Khaled and Özsu, M. Tamer and Wang, Xingfang and Jin, Tianqi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1047--1058},
        doi = {10.14778/2732977.2732979},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732977.2732979},
        year = {2014}
}

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389	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00019386526
759	The case against specialized graph analytics engines	2015	CIDR	0.00014273591
1,563	LDBC Graphalytics: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Graph Analysis on Parallel and Distributed Platforms	2016	VLDB	0.00010352314
1,865	An Experimental Comparison of Partitioning Strategies in Distributed Graph Processing	2017	VLDB	9.5915721e-05
1,875	Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation	2015	VLDB	9.5728308e-05
2,325	Giraph Unchained: Barrierless Asynchronous Parallel Execution in Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	8.7495171e-05
3,071	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	7.7885156e-05
3,362	Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning	2019	SIGMOD	7.4833791e-05
3,752	Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion-edge Graphs	2019	VLDB	7.15217e-05
4,025	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.947875e-05
4,872	Ringo: Interactive Graph Analytics on Big-Memory Machines	2015	SIGMOD	6.4697044e-05
5,675	MOCgraph: Scalable Distributed Graph Processing Using Message Online Computing	2015	VLDB	6.1252874e-05
6,599	Adaptive Asynchronous Parallelization of Graph Algorithms	2018	SIGMOD	5.8250554e-05
6,961	GraphMineSuite: Enabling High-Performance and Programmable Graph Mining Algorithms with Set Algebra	2021	VLDB	5.7303405e-05
7,281	A General-Purpose Query-Centric Framework for Querying Big Graphs	2016	VLDB	5.6567845e-05
7,447	Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems	2018	VLDB	5.6149936e-05
9,729	Scalable Graph Convolutional Network Training on Distributed-Memory Systems	2023	VLDB	5.2289669e-05
11,208	Automating Vectorized Distributed Graph Computation	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,677	Vertex-centric Parallel Computation of SQL Queries	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
20	Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	0.00056944564
486	Efficient Aggregation for Graph Summarization	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017692185
487	From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"	2014	VLDB	0.00017645653
2,295	Optimizing Graph Algorithms on Pregel-like Systems	2014	VLDB	8.7932254e-05

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