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One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale

Summary: Scales Apache Giraph to Facebook graphs of up to one trillion edges, addressing usability and performance beyond existing benchmarks. Extends Pregel to support reusable, complex production workflows and reports real-world operational and performance results. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11246
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00019386526
Overall Rank
389 | 97.34%
DOI
10.14778/2824032.2824077

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BibTeX Citation

@article{ching_vldb15,
        title = {{One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale}},
        author = {Ching, Avery and Edunov, Sergey and Kabiljo, Maja and Logothetis, Dionysios and Muthukrishnan, Sambavi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1804--1815},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824077},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824077},
        year = {2015}
}

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