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: 7052
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.3300131e-05
Overall Rank: 9,473 | 34.17%
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	4.1905499e-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	0.0019040811
395	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00024440144
441	Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations	2017	SIGMOD	0.00023172424
570	From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"	2014	VLDB	0.00019895021
1,170	Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs	2014	VLDB	0.00013526297
1,196	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013378379
1,392	Real-time Constrained Cycle Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	0.00012224015
1,679	Navigating the Maze of Graph Analytics Frameworks using Massive Graph Datasets	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010926732
1,813	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010452333
1,834	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010364718
1,876	Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation	2015	VLDB	0.00010242818
2,332	Optimizing Graph Algorithms on Pregel-like Systems	2014	VLDB	9.0173968e-05
3,674	A Distributed Multi-GPU System for Fast Graph Processing	2018	VLDB	6.8502146e-05
3,840	Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning	2019	SIGMOD	6.7098606e-05
3,948	Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph	2013	VLDB	6.5968941e-05
4,236	Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion-edge Graphs	2019	VLDB	6.3296839e-05
5,811	CGgraph: An Ultra-fast Graph Processing System on Modern Commodity CPU-GPU Co-processor	2024	VLDB	5.3168243e-05

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