In-Memory Big Graph: A Future Research Agenda

Abstract

With the growth of the inter-connectivity of the world, Big Graph has become a popular emerging technology. For instance, social media (Facebook, Twitter). Prominent examples of Big Graph include social networks, biological network, graph mining, big knowledge graph, big web graphs and scholarly citation networks. A Big Graph consists of millions of nodes and trillion of edges. Big Graphs are growing exponentially and requires large computing machinery. Big Graph is posing many issues such as storage, scalability, processing and many more. This paper gives a brief overview of in-memory Big Graph Systems and some key challenges. Also, sheds some light on future research agendas of in-memory systems.