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2014-05-24 Graphs and Map / Reduce

Implementing graph algorithm on map/reduce is still a challenge. But maybe because it is a challenge, people keep thinking about it. It is the purpose of GraphX which reduces the processing time for the Page Rank algorithm on a Spark environment. It is not as fast as PowerGraph which is not based on Map/Reduce but it is must faster than Mahout (see paper GraphX: A Resilient Distributed Graph System on Spark). One fact, the language Scala appears more and more. A sign: Mahout recently took the decision to stop implementing machine learning algorithm against Map/Reduce to switch to Spark.


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Xavier Dupré