WebGraph: things you thought you could not do with Java

Studying web graphs is often difficult due to their large size. The WebGraph framework is a suite of codes, algorithms and tools that make it easy to manipulate large web graphs, and to store them in a limited space, by exploiting the inner redundancies of the web. WebGraph is based on sophisticated bitwise compression techniques, and functional-style lazy constructions. Common wisdom would say that the most unlikely language to implement such a framework is Java. We are going to tell you the real story