I have used XML to represent very large graphs (billions of nodes). It is as bad as you would imagine.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I vote for whichever one isn't based on XML? :) > > I really can't imagine encoding a 10-billion node graph in XML. Or rather, > I can, and I'm skeeeeeered. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > >> I'm going to write a converter to dump out clusters and their points to a >> graph structure so they can be displayed. >> >> Gephi (and others) supports a myriad of formats: >> http://gephi.org/users/supported-graph-formats/ >> >> * GEXF >> >> * GDF >> >> * GML >> >> * GraphML >> >> * Pajek NET >> >> * GraphViz DOT >> >> * CSV >> >> * UCINET DL >> >> * Tulip TPL >> >> * Netdraw VNA >> >> * Spreadsheet >> >> Anyone have strong opinions on a format? CSV is the simplest, obviously, >> but doesn't support attributes like GraphML. I'm inclined to use GraphML or >> CSV. >> >> -Grant >
