Skip to Content
Exploring Graphs with Elixir
book

Exploring Graphs with Elixir

by Tony Hammond
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
5h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Exploring Graphs with Elixir

Storing Graphs in the Graph Store

It’s fine to enter the graph data interactively, but it can get a little tiresome after a while. We’d rather read our graphs back from a filestore, so we’ll need to be able to write the graphs out to some text format—that is, to serialize the graph data structures—for disk-based storage.

The libgraph package includes two serialization functions in the Graph module: to_dot/1 and to_edgelist/1. The former renders the graph using the well-known DOT format from the Graphviz[10] distribution, while the latter is a plaintext rendering of graph edges suitable for using with graph libraries such as the igraph[11] library.

We’ll work with the DOT format here as this is a common serialization used by many software packages ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Metaprogramming Elixir

Metaprogramming Elixir

Chris McCord
Testing Elixir

Testing Elixir

Andrea Leopardi, Jeffrey Matthias
Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves

Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves

Alexander Koutmos, Bruce Tate, Frank Hunleth

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9798888650059Errata Page