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One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale

Summary: Scales Apache Giraph to Facebook graphs of up to one trillion edges, addressing usability and performance beyond existing benchmarks. Extends Pregel to support reusable, complex production workflows and reports real-world operational and performance results. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h356c44c444451d4d
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00019191286
Overall Rank
394 | 97.36%
DOI
10.14778/2824032.2824077

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BibTeX Citation

@article{ching_vldb15,
        title = {{One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale}},
        author = {Ching, Avery and Edunov, Sergey and Kabiljo, Maja and Logothetis, Dionysios and Muthukrishnan, Sambavi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1804--1815},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824077},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824077},
        year = {2015}
}

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3,121 Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Database Based on Refinable Timestamps 2016 VLDB 7.6267344e-05
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5,293 Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT 2022 SIGMOD 6.1917112e-05
5,684 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 6.0391416e-05
6,414 Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 5.7927521e-05
7,080 LA3: A Scalable Link- and Locality-Aware Linear Algebra-Based Graph Analytics System 2018 VLDB 5.6048076e-05
7,101 GraphMineSuite: Enabling High-Performance and Programmable Graph Mining Algorithms with Set Algebra 2021 VLDB 5.601767e-05
7,286 Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems 2018 VLDB 5.565865e-05
7,476 A Study of Partitioning Policies for Graph Analytics on Large-scale Distributed Platforms 2019 VLDB 5.5161224e-05
8,127 Coarsening Massive Influence Networks for Scalable Diffusion Analysis 2017 SIGMOD 5.3940983e-05
8,255 Start Late or Finish Early: A Distributed Graph Processing System with Redundancy Reduction 2019 VLDB 5.3676662e-05
8,485 Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale 2019 SIGMOD 5.3326349e-05
9,057 BACH: Bridging Adjacency List and CSR Format using LSM-Trees for HGTAP Workloads 2025 VLDB 5.2295363e-05
9,289 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.2012408e-05
9,746 Graphite: A NUMA-aware HPC System for Graph Analytics Based on a new MPI * X Parallelism Model 2020 VLDB 5.1349531e-05
9,900 Scalable Graph Convolutional Network Training on Distributed-Memory Systems 2023 VLDB 5.1116429e-05
10,272 TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions 2025 VLDB 5.0485061e-05
10,676 RadixGraph: A Fast, Space-Optimized Data Structure for Dynamic Graph Storage 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,135 Unified Lineage System: Tracking Data Provenance at Scale 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,206 Faster and Efficient Density Decomposition via Proportional Response with Exponential Momentum 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,212 Using Process Calculus for Optimizing Data and Computation Sharing in Complex Stateful Parallel Computations 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,215 Most Similar Biclique Search at Scale 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,220 In-depth Analysis of Densest Subgraph Discovery in a Unified Framework 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,300 Triparts: Scalable Streaming Graph Partitioning to Enhance Community Structure 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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11,715 Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations 2023 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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