GraphScope Blog

We are glad to announce a number of new features and improvements to GraphScope, alongside the GraphScope 0.17 release. The updates include new releases for Spark-GraphX support, backend engine enhancement, and frontend APIs. Currently, GraphX Pregel algorithms can be seamlessly executed on GraphScope. A lot of new features have also been officially brought into the interactive engine (GIE), including the syntactic sugar of path expansion and expression, the Gremlin steps of id(), label(), coin() and otherV(), and the profiling and benchmarking tools for LDBC BI queries.

We are bringing a number of improvements to GraphScope, alongside the GraphScope 0.16.0 release. This release introduces many new features on backend engines and system stability. We completely remove a legacy Graph Interactive Engine (GIE), while officially replacing it with the latest version based on an intermediate representation (IR) layer. The Graph Learning Engine (GLE) now supports real-time sampling on dynamic graphs. In addition, the Jave SDK of Graph Analytics Engine (GAE) can work on MacOS. Meanwhile, we start to release a nightly version every day, and you can try it with pip3 install graphscope --pre.

We are delighted to present the release of GraphScope 0.14.0. This release is composed of many updates on backend engines and system stability. The new Graph Interactive Engine (GIE), GAIA-IR, has supported more types of operators and graph schemas for diverse graph queries. Meanwhile, the persistent storage of GraphScope, Groot, is further enhanced with a series of new functions. In addition, we continuously work on improving the performance of GraphScope, and developer usability.

We are delighted to announce the release of GraphScope v0.13.0. This release is focused on providing a JupyterLab extension for GraphScope to make your graph computation workflows better. In addition, we continuously work on improving performance of GraphScope, and developer usability.

The GraphScope v0.12.0 release is a major update on many aspects of the project including backend engines, APIs, and system stability. It introduces an intermediate representation (IR) layer into the graph interactive engine (GIE) named GAIA, to decouple query languages from query execution engines. Meanwhile, this release supports Giraph APIs to allow Giraph apps directly running on the Graph Analytics Engine (GAE) of GraphScope.

We are glad to announce a number of new features and improvements to GraphScope, alongside the GraphScope v0.11.0 release. This major release introduces mutable graphs into GraphScope, and adds GPU supports for graph analytics engine (GAE). It also focuses on user-friendly improvements, code quality, and a series of bug fixes.

We are glad to announce the availability of GraphScope v0.10. This release supports users to run GraphScope on MacOS powered by Apple’s new M1 chip. In addition, it allows to serialize/deserialize graph data to/from the disk under the standalone mode.

We are glad to announce the availability of GraphScope v0.9. In this release, we revisit the Dev-infra to improve productivity. Now, you can enjoy GraphScope with standalone mode in both our PlayGround and Google Colab. We also continuously make GraphScope more user-friendly and update the documents and tutorials based on the latest version. Further, we have preliminary supported Java in Graph Analytics Engine (GAE), and users can succinctly develop graph analytics applications with Java (see this document for more details).

We are glad to announce the availability of GraphScope v0.8. This release is a major update on many aspects of the project including deployment, system speed and APIs. For quickly getting started, this release supports to use GraphScope on standalone mode without Kubernetes. To improve the efficiency of operators and applications in NetworkX module, an immutable graph is applied by default, while it is converted to a dynamic graph only if modification operators for graphs are triggered. In addition, a notebook is integrated into the helm charts.

We are glad to announce the availability of GraphScope v0.7. This release includes major updates for the persistent graph store in GraphScope, providing APIs for real-time graph updates (inserts and deletes of individual vertices and edges). It also focuses on user-friendly improvements, security issues, code quality, and a series of bug fixes.

We are glad to announce the release of GraphScope 0.6. This major release integrates a new graph interactive engine GAIA, which supports efficient parallel execution and bounded-memory execution for Gremlin queries. More technical details of GAIA can refer to our published tech blog. Note that currently the integration of GAIA with GraphScope is experimental, and is not recommended for production use yet! In addition, this release improves the experience of local deployment on MacOS, Ubuntu and CentOS, and adds more graph analytics algorithms.

Last time, we presented an overview of the GAIA engine for scaling Gremlin for large distributed graphs. In contrast to other, existing batch-oriented big graph processing systems, such as Google Pregel, Apache Giraph, GraphLab PowerGraph, and Apache Spark GraphX, GAIA focuses on low-latency graph traversal at scale. Achieving this goal requires a different distributed infrastructure. Today, we continue to explain why with highlighting two unique and key features of GAIA.

We are glad to announce the GraphScope 0.5 release. As the first step towards the ease of deployment in production, this major release includes two new features, namely a persistent graph store to enable a “service mode” for real-time graph computing, and lazy evaluation of GraphScope programs–an execution strategy which delays the execution of a GraphScope program until later when needed for efficiency. In addition, we improve the compatibility with NetworkX. ​ We highlight the following improvements included in this release: ​

1. GraphScope-Store: A persistent store for mutable graphs. Currently, it has supported the following features/functions:

In this post, we will present a high-level road-map of the GraphScope project with highlighting new exciting features coming in the v0.5 release.

Today, we’re announcing the availability of GraphScope v0.4.0. This release focuses on the compatibility improvement with NetworkX, with the aim of allowing users to develop graph applications on large-scale graphs in a distributed environment just like doing this on a single machine. In addition, this release improves the experience of standalone deployment.

GAIA extends GraphScope with Gremlin, the industry’s de facto standard property graph query language defined and maintained by the Apache TinkerPop project, which is widely adopted by popular graph database vendors such as Neo4j, OrientDB, JanusGraph, Microsoft Cosmos DB, and Amazon Neptune. GAIA is the first open-source implementation of Gremlin in a distributed or big-data environment in the industry.

GraphScope v0.3.0 is released as scheduled. This release includes new features and major updates for frontend APIs for graph manipulation, integration with other systems as well as code optimization for some operators. Another direction we are working on is to ease the deployment of GraphScope with/without Kubernetes.

To explore underlying insights hidden in graph data, many graph analytics algorithms, e.g., PageRank and single source shortest paths (the Dijkstra’s algorithm), have been designed to solve different problems.

Today we released GraphScope 0.2.0. With this release, we are happy to introduce GraphScope Playground, a hosted JupyterLab with GraphScope ready out-of-the-box. Now you can get started with GraphScope straight away in your browser without any hassle for setting it up.

The GraphScope team is pleased to announce the 0.2.0 release after two-months development. The 0.2.0 release is focused on better getting started experience for end-users and we have make a lot of improvements since the last minor release. We have improved our documentation a lot, and made the kubernetes integration work for more settings. We have also brought the support for various I/O to make GraphScope suitable for more production environments.

The source code of GraphScope is released today!