Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware

Summary: Nezha is a distributed graph system on CPU+GPU nodes using RDMA to reduce communication and improve compute utilization. Key ideas: graph-friendly RDMA protocol, multi-device cooperation, and a workload balancer, with clear gains on popular benchmarks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7051
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.3341665e-05
Overall Rank: 9,471 | 34.12%
DOI: 10.1145/3709707

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,044	ACGraph: An Efficient Asynchronous Out-of-Core Graph Processing Framework	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
4	Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing	2010	SIGMOD	0.0019005923
396	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00024424102
444	Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations	2017	SIGMOD	0.00022987918
574	From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"	2014	VLDB	0.00019883211
1,171	Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs	2014	VLDB	0.00013511313
1,206	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013281657
1,394	Real-time Constrained Cycle Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	0.0001221552
1,678	Navigating the Maze of Graph Analytics Frameworks using Massive Graph Datasets	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010933417
1,819	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010429773
1,852	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010322492
1,877	Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation	2015	VLDB	0.00010236803
2,336	Optimizing Graph Algorithms on Pregel-like Systems	2014	VLDB	9.0109891e-05
3,670	A Distributed Multi-GPU System for Fast Graph Processing	2018	VLDB	6.8567044e-05
3,839	Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning	2019	SIGMOD	6.7120651e-05
3,947	Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph	2013	VLDB	6.5967528e-05
4,234	Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion-edge Graphs	2019	VLDB	6.3355073e-05
5,799	CGgraph: An Ultra-fast Graph Processing System on Modern Commodity CPU-GPU Co-processor	2024	VLDB	5.3219334e-05

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