Vertexica: Your Relational Friend for Graph Analytics!

In this paper, we present Vertexica, a graph analytics tools on top of a relational database, which is user friendly and yet highly e-cient. Instead of constraining programmers to SQL, Vertexica of-fers a popular vertex-centric query interface, which is more natural for analysts to express many graph queries.e programmers sim-ply provide their vertex-compute functions and Vertexica takes care of eciently executing them in the standard SQL engine. e advantage of using Vertexica is its ability to leverage the relational features and enable much more sophisticated graph analysis.ese include expressing graph algorithms which are dicult in vertex-centric but straightforward in SQL and the ability to compose end-to-end data processing pipelines, including pre- and post- process-ing of graphs as well as combining multiple algorithms for deeper insights. Vertexica has a graphical user interface and we outline several demonstration scenarios including, interactive graph analy-sis, complex graph analysis, and continuous and time series analysis. 1