Sorry to start with a conclusion first… To me Titan graph seems to be the egg-laying wool-milk-sow that people would dream of when working with graph data. Especially if one needs graph data in a web context and in real time. I will certainly try to free some time to check this out and get hands on. …
Tag: hadoop
Some thoughts on Google Mapeduce and Google Pregel after our discussions in the Reading Club
The first meeting of our reading club was quite a success. Everyone was well prepared and we discussed some issues about Google’s Map Reduce framework and I had the feeling that everyone now better understands what is going on there. I will now post a summary of what has been discussed and will also post some …
Nils Grunwald from Linkfluence talks at FOSDEM about Cascalog for graph processing
Nils Grunwald works at the french startup Linkefluence. Their product is more or less social network analysis and graph processing. They crawl the web and blogs or get other social network data and provide solutions with statistics and insights for their customers. In this scenario obviously big data is envolved and the data carries a …
Claudio Martella talks @ FOSDEM about Apache Giraph: Distributed Graph Processing in the Cloud
Claudio Martella introduces Apache Giraph which according to him is a loose implementation of Google Pregel which was introduced on SIGMOD in 2010. He points out that Map Reduce cannot be used to do graph processing. He then gave an example on how MapReduce can be used to to do page rank calculation. He points out that Pagerank can be calculated …