Blog posts tagged with "Datagen"
LDBC SNB – Early 2023 updates
2023 has been an eventful year for us so far. Here is a summary of our recent activities. Our paper The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload was published in PVLDB. David …
LDBC SNB Datagen – The winding path to SF100K
LDBC SNB provides a data generator, which produces synthetic datasets, mimicking a social network’s activity during a period of time. Datagen is defined by the charasteristics of realism, scalability, …
Speeding Up LDBC SNB Datagen
LDBC’s Social Network Benchmark [4] (LDBC SNB) is an industrial and academic initiative, formed by principal actors in the field of graph-like data management. Its goal is to define a framework where …
LDBC and Apache Flink
Apache Flink [1] is an open source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing. Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault …
SNB and Graphs Related Presentations at GRADES '15
Next 31st of May the GRADES workshop will take place in Melbourne within the ACM/SIGMOD presentation. GRADES started as an initiative of the Linked Data Benchmark Council in the SIGMOD/PODS 2013 held …
Event Driven Post Generation in Datagen
As discussed in previous posts, one of the features that makes Datagen more realistic is the fact that the activity volume of the simulated Persons is not uniform, but forms spikes. In this blog entry …
The LDBC Datagen Community Structure
This blog entry is about one of the features of DATAGEN that makes it different from other synthetic graph generators that can be found in the literature: the community structure of the graph. When …
Person Activity Subgraph Features in LDBC DATAGEN
When talking about DATAGEN and other graph generators with social network characteristics, our attention is typically borrowed by the friendship subgraph and/or its structure. However, a social graph …
Social Network Benchmark Goals
Social Network interaction is amongst the most natural and widely spread activities in the internet society, and it has turned out to be a very useful way for people to socialise at different levels …
DATAGEN: Data Generation for the Social Network Benchmark
As explained in a previous post, the LDBC Social Network Benchmark (LDBC-SNB) has the objective to provide a realistic yet challenging workload, consisting of a social network and a set of queries. …
Getting Started With SNB
In a previous blog post titled “Is SNB like Facebook’s LinkBench?”, Peter Boncz discusses the design philosophy that shapes SNB and how it compares to other existing benchmarks such as LinkBench. In …
SNB Data Generator - Getting Started
In previous posts (this and this) we briefly introduced the design goals and philosophy behind DATAGEN, the data generator used in LDBC-SNB. In this post, I will explain how to use DATAGEN to generate …