Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing
Summary: Vertex-centric computation model with supersteps: vertices send/receive messages, update state, and mutate edges or topology. Scales to billions of edges on commodity clusters; fault-tolerant, synchronous execution; distribution details hidden behind an API, enabling expressive, easy-to-program graph analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Grzegorz Malewicz (Google)
- 2. Matthew H. Austern (Google)
- 3. Aart J. C. Bik (Google)
- 4. James C. Dehnert (Google)
- 5. Ilan Horn (Google)
- 6. Naty Leiser (Google)
- 7. Grzegorz Czajkowski (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{malewicz_sigmod10,
title = {{Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing}},
author = {Malewicz, Grzegorz and Austern, Matthew H. and Bik, Aart J. C. and Dehnert, James C. and Horn, Ilan and Leiser, Naty and Czajkowski, Grzegorz},
series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807184},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807184},
year = {2010}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0010686205 |
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