The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing
Summary: Empirical study of real-world graph usage via a large online survey and mining graph software repos. Graphs are diverse and large; scalability and visualization are the main practitioner challenges, signaling gaps between practice and current systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Siddhartha Sahu (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Amine Mhedhbi (University of Waterloo)
- 3. Semih Salihoglu (University of Waterloo)
- 4. Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)
- 5. M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{sahu_vldb18,
title = {{The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing}},
author = {Sahu, Siddhartha and Mhedhbi, Amine and Salihoglu, Semih and Lin, Jimmy and Özsu, M. Tamer},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
pages = {420--431},
doi = {10.1145/3164135.3164139},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3164135.3164139},
year = {2018}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.0012089097 |
| 392 | One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0001917435 |
| 1,857 | Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation | 2015 | VLDB | 9.4785847e-05 |
| 2,425 | Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement | 2017 | SIGMOD | 8.4757624e-05 |
| 4,195 | GraphJet: Real-Time Content Recommendations at Twitter | 2016 | VLDB | 6.7324627e-05 |
| 9,938 | Graft: A Debugging Tool For Apache Giraph | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.0932503e-05 |
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