Streaming Sparse Graphs using Efficient Dynamic Sets

We present the SSTGraph framework for the storage and analysis of dynamic graphs. Its performance matches or exceeds state-of-the-art static graph engines and supports streaming updates. SSTGraph builds on top of the tinyset parallel, dynamic set data structure. Tinyset implements set membership in a shallow hierarchy of sorted packed memory arrays to achieve logarithmic time access and updates, and it scans in optimal linear time. Tinyset uses space comparable to that of systems that use data compression while avoiding compression’s computation and serialization overhead.SSTGraph outperforms other streaming, dynamic graph engines on a suite of four graph algorithms. Our evaluation includes a comparison with the Aspen streaming graph system. SSTGraph reduces runtime by 40% on average, updates are 2x-5x faster on batch sizes up to 10 million, and graphs are smaller. The partitioned data structure scales well and runs on billion edge graphs in just 15 GB of memory.