A Comparative Analysis of Recursive Query Algorithm Implementations based on High Performance Distributed In-Memory Big Data Processing Platforms

Minseo Kang, Jaesung Kim, Jaegil Lee

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Recursive query algorithm is used in many social network services, e.g., reachability queries in social networks. Recently, the size of social network data has increased as social network services evolve. As a result, it is almost impossible to use the recursive query algorithm on a single machine. In this paper, we implement recursive query on two popular in-memory distributed platforms, Spark and Twister, to solve this problem. We evaluate the performance of two implementations using 50 machines on Amazon EC2, and real-world data sets: LiveJournal and ClueWeb. The result shows that recursive query algorithm shows better performance on Spark for the Livejournal input data set with relatively high average degree, but smaller vertices. However, recursive query on Twister is superior to Spark for the ClueWeb input data set with relatively low average degree, but many vertices.