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From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"

Summary: Shifts from vertex-centric to graph-centric thinking by exposing partition structure, enabling intra-partition computation. Giraph++ atop Apache Giraph yields 63× faster connected components and 204× fewer messages on a 118M-vertex web graph. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11078
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00017645653
Overall Rank
487 | 96.67%
DOI
10.14778/2732232.2732238

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BibTeX Citation

@article{tian_vldb14,
        title = {{From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"}},
        author = {Tian, Yuanyuan and Balmin, Andrey and Corsten, Severin Andreas and Tatikonda, Shirish and McPherson, John},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {3},
        pages = {193--204},
        doi = {10.14778/2732232.2732238},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732232.2732238},
        year = {2014}
}

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937 Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs 2014 VLDB 0.00013091546
956 Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations 2017 SIGMOD 0.0001297452
1,300 An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems 2014 VLDB 0.00011258552
1,511 Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010538011
1,875 Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation 2015 VLDB 9.5728308e-05
1,983 Pregelix: Big(ger) Graph Analytics on A Dataflow Engine 2015 VLDB 9.3544951e-05
2,325 Giraph Unchained: Barrierless Asynchronous Parallel Execution in Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 8.7495171e-05
2,522 Fractal: A General-Purpose Graph Pattern Mining System 2019 SIGMOD 8.4713567e-05
3,008 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.8578871e-05
3,085 Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Database Based on Refinable Timestamps 2016 VLDB 7.7709242e-05
3,601 TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing 2019 VLDB 7.27018e-05
3,855 Distributed D-core Decomposition over Large Directed Graphs 2022 VLDB 7.0712144e-05
4,323 TurboGraph++: A Scalable and Fast Graph Analytics System 2018 SIGMOD 6.7608401e-05
4,519 G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture 2022 VLDB 6.6472999e-05
5,075 CGgraph: An Ultra-fast Graph Processing System on Modern Commodity CPU-GPU Co-processor 2024 VLDB 6.3740128e-05
5,480 EMOGI: Efficient Memory-access for Out-of-memory Graph-traversal in GPUs 2021 VLDB 6.2040237e-05
5,608 Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities 2022 VLDB 6.1514145e-05
5,675 MOCgraph: Scalable Distributed Graph Processing Using Message Online Computing 2015 VLDB 6.1252874e-05
6,066 GRAPE: Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations 2017 VLDB 5.9890886e-05
6,203 Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing 2020 SIGMOD 5.9447217e-05
6,450 Big Graph Analytics Systems 2016 SIGMOD 5.8753826e-05
6,599 Adaptive Asynchronous Parallelization of Graph Algorithms 2018 SIGMOD 5.8250554e-05
6,876 A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs 2022 SIGMOD 5.7483615e-05
7,380 MiniGraph: Querying Big Graphs with a Single Machine 2023 VLDB 5.6288836e-05
7,447 Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems 2018 VLDB 5.6149936e-05
8,017 Data Management for Social Networking 2016 PODS 5.5064531e-05
8,179 GraphINC: Graph Pattern Mining at Network Speed 2023 SIGMOD 5.472762e-05
8,639 NScale: Neighborhood-centric Analytics on Large Graphs 2014 VLDB 5.3949716e-05
8,651 Distributed Set Reachability 2016 SIGMOD 5.3916003e-05
8,858 Optimizing Parallel Recursive Datalog Evaluation on Multicore Machines 2022 SIGMOD 5.3567857e-05
8,873 TGraph: A Tensor-centric Graph Processing Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.3539725e-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
9,593 GraphScope Flex: LEGO-like Graph Computing Stack 2024 SIGMOD 5.2511057e-05
9,605 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.247855e-05
9,729 Scalable Graph Convolutional Network Training on Distributed-Memory Systems 2023 VLDB 5.2289669e-05
9,749 Auto-Approximation of Graph Computing 2014 VLDB 5.227679e-05
9,944 Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ 2025 VLDB 5.1915905e-05
9,967 Automating Incremental Graph Processing with Flexible Memoization 2021 VLDB 5.1869874e-05
10,100 Parallel Colorful h-star Core Maintenance in Dynamic Graphs 2023 VLDB 5.1488731e-05
10,797 Using Process Calculus for Optimizing Data and Computation Sharing in Complex Stateful Parallel Computations 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,096 A Single Machine System for Querying Big Graphs with PRAM 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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