Google Summer of Code 2019/Graph compression

• Title: Graph compression
• Description: The Software Heritage data model is a big Merkle DAG made of nodes like revisions, releases, directories, etc. It is a very big graph, with 12 billion nodes and 165 billion edges, which makes it hard to fit in memory using naive approaches. Graph compression techniques have been successfully used to compress the Web graph (which is slightly larger than the Software Heritage one) and make it fit in memory. The goal of this GSoC project is review existing graph compression techniques and apply the most appropriate one to the Software Heritage case, enabling in-memory processing of its Merkle DAG.
• Student: Thibault 'haltode' Allançon
  • forge activity
  • project on the GSoC portal
• What was done:
  • Git repo: swh-graph (list of my commits)
  • Research on graph compression: evaluate/experiment feasibility and compression rate of multiple techniques
  • Docker environment and scripts to automate the entire compression pipeline
  • REST API to query the graph
    • Java server side: load the compressed graph, run API endpoints traversal algorithms, unit tests, javadoc
    • Python client side: integration with SWH infrastructure, integration tests
  • Automated benchmarking tools with statistical analysis
  • General documentation on docker environment, compression steps, graph query use-cases, etc.
• Mentors:
  • Stefano Zacchiroli
  • Antoine Pietri
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