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Dan Brickley commented on GIRAPH-11:
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Is there more detail somewhere on how 'range based' works?
> Improve the graph distribution of Giraph
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> Key: GIRAPH-11
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GIRAPH-11
> Project: Giraph
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Avery Ching
> Assignee: Avery Ching
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> Currently, Giraph assumes that the data from the VertexInputFormat is sorted.
> If the user data is not sorted by the vertex id, they must first run a
> MapReduce or Pig job to generate a sorted dataset. This is often a bit
> inconvenient.
> Giraph graph partitioning is currently range based and there are some
> advantages and disadvantages of this approach. The proposal of this JIRA
> would be to allow for both range and hash based partitioning and provide more
> flexibility to the user.
> Design goals for the graph distribution:
> * Allow vertices to be unordered or unordered
> * Ability to repartition
> * Select the partitioning scheme based on user needs (i.e. hash or range
> based)
> * Ability to provide user-specific hints about partitions
> Hash-based partitioning
> * Good vertex balancing across ranges for random data
> * Bad at vertex id locality
> Range-based partitioning
> * Good at vertex id locality
> * Ability to split ranges easily
> * Can cause hotspots for hot ranges
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