This might help you slightly. http://www.quora.com/I-am-looking-at-BSP-Bulk-Synchronous-Parallel-solutions-on-the-cloud-that-integrate-with-Hadoop-It-appears-that-Hama-and-Giraph-are-most-promising-What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-one-of-them
-- Regards, Apurv Verma On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Edward J. Yoon <[email protected]>wrote: > In my private opinion, > > = What's difference of the two projects? = > > Hama pursues the general BSP computing engine, so it provides an > chance of any additional programming models on top of BSP model. For > example, Hama can be used for Pregel-like graph computing model, > Machine Learning algorithms, and MRQL's complex query processing. > > Giraph is different in the sense that it focused only on > "vertex-centric graph model" and it runs as a map-only job. So, it > have a dependence of Map/Reduce framework. > > = What's the HAMA's target in the future? = > > A scalable and fast distributed computing engine for massive > scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. > Also, we're trying to support C/C++ interface, easy-to-use query > language (with MRQL project), and GPGPU acceleration. > > = HAMA's advantage VS Giraph at present? = > > In terms of graph computing qualities, Hama's graph package and Giraph > support almost same APIs because we cloned a Google's Pregel. One > different thing is a VertexInputReader for parsing the structure of > Vertex from the arbitrary input records. And, I think it's hard to say > at this stage which is the fast and reliable project. > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Changguanghui <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, all： > > > > First, congratulations on the release of new version of HAMA！ > > I have noticed HAMA for half year, but there are some questions > about HAMA's direction. For example, could the HAMA's team have discussed > another project which is called Giraph? and it focus on large-scale graph > processing too. > > I just want to know What's difference of the two projects, and > what's the HAMA's target in the future, and HAMA's advantage VS Giraph at > present? > > Maybe, HAMA's team can give some advices to users like me, so we can > make a decision to choose a project as our work platform. > > > > Best Regards > > > > Chang > > > > -- > Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon > @eddieyoon >
