Release Notes: v0.16.0

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release-note 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 highlight the following improvements included in this release:

  1. Enhancements of the GIE GAIA-IR engine:
    • Completely replacing the legacy GIE engine with the latest version based on IR layer;
    • Optimizing the logic of lazily fetching properties from the graph store, and implementing a new CSR-based storage for experiment purpose;
    • New language features including more grouping functions, more options for group/dedup/orderby keys, etc.
  2. Dynamic-Graph-Service (DGS) in GLE:
    • DGS is an online inference service, and it supports real-time graph sampling for GNN algorithms on dynamic graphs with streaming graph updates;
    • It provides a performance guarantee of sampling P99 latency in 20ms on large-scale dynamic graphs.
  3. Other enhancements:
    • Enabling Jave SDK of Graph Analytics Engine (GAE) on MacOS;
    • A series of enhancements on the persistent graph storage Groot.

For more detailed improvements that have been made in this release, please refer to the complete changelog.