Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems

Summary: Independent scale-out evaluation of eight parallel graph systems (Hadoop, HaLoop, Vertica, Giraph, GraphLab/PowerGraph, Blogel, Flink Gelly, GraphX) on four large graphs (Twitter, World Road Network, UK-200705, ClueWeb) with PageRank, WCC, SSSP, and K-hop. Reports performance, usability, and scalability up to 128 machines with tuning heuristics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11796
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.6149936e-05
Overall Rank: 7,447 | 48.91%
DOI: 10.14778/3231751.3231764

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Authors

1. Khaled Ammar (University of Waterloo)
2. M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ammar_vldb18,
        title = {{Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems}},
        author = {Ammar, Khaled and Özsu, M. Tamer},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1151--1164},
        doi = {10.14778/3231751.3231764},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3231751.3231764},
        year = {2018}
}

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Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,940	G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching	2020	SIGMOD	7.9381573e-05
3,362	Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning	2019	SIGMOD	7.4833791e-05
10,011	Sage: Parallel Semi-Asymmetric Graph Algorithms for NVRAMs	2020	VLDB	5.1772034e-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)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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
264	The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing	2018	VLDB	0.00022980015
389	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00019386526
426	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload	2015	SIGMOD	0.00018692185
455	Differential dataflow	2013	CIDR	0.00018133241
487	From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"	2014	VLDB	0.00017645653
759	The case against specialized graph analytics engines	2015	CIDR	0.00014273591
937	Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs	2014	VLDB	0.00013091546
1,300	An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems	2014	VLDB	0.00011258552
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

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