I would love to know the answer to that too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin East Spark GraphX in Action Michael Malak and Robin East Manning Publications Co. http://www.manning.com/books/spark-graphx-in-action <http://www.manning.com/books/spark-graphx-in-action>
> On 9 Mar 2017, at 17:42, enzo <e...@smartinsightsfromdata.com> wrote: > > I am a bit confused by the current roadmap for graph and graph analytics in > Apache Spark. > > I understand that we have had for some time two libraries (the following is > my understanding - please amend as appropriate!): > > . GraphX, part of Spark project. This library is based on RDD and it is only > accessible via Scala. It doesn’t look that this library has been enhanced > recently. > . GraphFrames, independent (at the moment?) library for Spark. This library > is based on Spark DataFrames and accessible by Scala & Python. Last commit on > GitHub was 2 months ago. > > GraphFrames cam about with the promise at some point to be integrated in > Apache Spark. > > I can see other projects coming up with interesting libraries and ideas (e.g. > Graphulo on Accumulo, a new project with the goal of implementing the > GraphBlas building blocks for graph algorithms on top of Accumulo). > > Where is Apache Spark going? > > Where are graph libraries in the roadmap? > > > > Thanks for any clarity brought to this matter. > > Enzo