An Experimental Comparison of Partitioning Strategies in Distributed Graph Processing

Summary: Empirical comparison of partitioning strategies in distributed graph systems, evaluating performance and resources across workloads. No single strategy dominates; outcomes depend on degree distribution, duration, cluster size, and PowerLyra results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11546
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 9.9071968e-05
Overall Rank: 1,968 | 86.32%
DOI: -

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2,494	Streaming Graph Partitioning: An Experimental Study	2018	VLDB	8.6508229e-05
3,646	G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching	2020	SIGMOD	6.8853079e-05
3,839	Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning	2019	SIGMOD	6.7120651e-05
4,020	TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing	2019	VLDB	6.5237459e-05
4,234	Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion-edge Graphs	2019	VLDB	6.3355073e-05
4,497	Multi-Dimensional Balanced Graph Partitioning via Projected Gradient Descent	2019	VLDB	6.1387773e-05
5,949	Hybrid Edge Partitioner: Partitioning Large Power-Law Graphs under Memory Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	5.2595857e-05
7,687	Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems	2018	VLDB	4.677974e-05
7,788	Towards Distributed Bitruss Decomposition on Bipartite Graphs	2022	VLDB	4.651009e-05
8,115	Start Late or Finish Early: A Distributed Graph Processing System with Redundancy Reduction	2019	VLDB	4.5816155e-05
8,254	A Study of Partitioning Policies for Graph Analytics on Large-scale Distributed Platforms	2019	VLDB	4.5491792e-05
10,647	Can Graph Reordering Speed Up Graph Neural Network Training? An Experimental Study	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,028	FSM: A Fine-grained Splitting and Merging Framework for Dual-balanced Graph Partition	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4	Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing	2010	SIGMOD	0.0019005923
37	Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	0.0007522744
396	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00024424102
1,408	An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems	2014	VLDB	0.00012133511

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