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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
0.00019182322
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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5,296 Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT 2022 SIGMOD 6.1888137e-05
5,684 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 6.0362827e-05
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7,081 LA3: A Scalable Link- and Locality-Aware Linear Algebra-Based Graph Analytics System 2018 VLDB 5.6021543e-05
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8,261 Start Late or Finish Early: A Distributed Graph Processing System with Redundancy Reduction 2019 VLDB 5.3651252e-05
8,493 Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale 2019 SIGMOD 5.3301105e-05
9,065 BACH: Bridging Adjacency List and CSR Format using LSM-Trees for HGTAP Workloads 2025 VLDB 5.2270607e-05
9,299 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.1987786e-05
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9,907 Scalable Graph Convolutional Network Training on Distributed-Memory Systems 2023 VLDB 5.1092231e-05
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10,687 RadixGraph: A Fast, Space-Optimized Data Structure for Dynamic Graph Storage 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,144 Unified Lineage System: Tracking Data Provenance at Scale 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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