CHAPTER 2

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Modeling Graph Processing Use Cases

This chapter covers

  • Modeling your data as a graph
  • Differences between offline and online computations
  • Fitting Giraph in an application architecture
  • Use case for Giraph at a web-search company
  • Use case for Giraph at an e-commerce site
  • Use case for Giraph at an online social networking site

Giraph goes beyond a basic library to facilitate graph processing. It provides a programming model and a framework to solve graph problems through offline computations at large scale. To use Giraph, you need to understand how to model data with graphs and how to fit Giraph in a system architecture to process graph ...

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