March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
356 pages
7h 11m
English
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Comparison between GraphFrames and GraphX
It is important to look at a quick comparison between GraphX and GraphFrames as it gives you an idea as to where GraphFrames are going. Joseph Bradley, who is a software Engineer at Databricks, gave a brilliant talk on GraphFrames and the difference between the two APIs. The talk is available at http://bit.ly/2hBrDwH. Here is a summary of the comparison:
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GraphFrames |
GraphX | |
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Core APIs |
Scala, Java, Python |
Scala only |
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Programming Abstraction |
DataFrames |
RDDs |
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Use Cases |
Algorithms, Queries, Motif Finding |
Algorithms |
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VertexIds |
Any type (in Catalyst) |
Long |
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Vertex/edge attributes |
Any number of DataFrame columns |
Any type (VD,ED) |
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Return Types |
GraphFrames/DataFrames |
Graph [VD,ED] or ... |
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