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Graph Processing with GraphX

Graph Processing with GraphX

This tutorial covers graph processing with GraphX in Apache Spark.

Graph Concepts in Spark

Vertices

Represented by a unique ID and attributes.

Edges

Represented by a source vertex ID, a destination vertex ID, and attributes.

Creating and Manipulating Graphs

Creating a Graph

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from graphframes import *

spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("GraphXExample").getOrCreate()

vertices = spark.createDataFrame([
 ("1", "Alice", 34),
 ("2", "Bob", 36),
 ("3", "Charlie", 30)], ["id", "name", "age"])

edges = spark.createDataFrame([
 ("1", "2", "friend"),
 ("2", "3", "follow"),
 ("3", "1", "friend")], ["src", "dst", "relationship"])

graph = GraphFrame(vertices, edges)

Graph Operators and Algorithms

PageRank Implementation

results = graph.pageRank(resetProbability=0.15, maxIter=10)
results.vertices.show()
results.edges.show()

Connected Components

result = graph.connectedComponents()
result.show()

Triangle Counting

result = graph.triangleCount()
result.show()

Using GraphFrames

GraphFrames is a library that provides a DataFrame-based API for graph processing.

Motif Finding

motifs = graph.find("(a)-[e]->(b); (b)-[e2]->(c)")
motifs.show()

Shortest Paths

results = graph.shortestPaths(landmarks=["1", "2"]

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