A graph is a data structure composed of vertices/dots and edges/lines. A graph database is a software system used to persist and process graphs. The common conception in today's database community is that there is a tradeoff between the scale of data and the complexity/interlinking of data. To challenge this understanding, Aurelius has developed Titan under the liberal Apache 2 license. Titan supports both the size of modern data and the modeling power of graphs to usher in the era of Big Graph Data. Novel techniques in edge compression, data layout, and vertex-centric indices that exploit significant orders are used to facilitate the representation and processing of a single atomic graph structure across a multi-machine cluster. To ensure ease of adoption by the graph community, Titan natively implements the TinkerPop 2 Blueprints API. This presentation will review the graph landscape, Titan's techniques for scale by distribution, and a collection of satellite graph technologies to be released by Aurelius in the coming summer months.

Speaker biographies:

Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez is the founder of the graph consulting firm Aurelius. He has focused his academic and commercial career on the theoretical and applied aspects of graphs. Marko is a cofounder of TinkerPop and the primary developer of the Gremlin graph traversal language.

Dr. Matthias Broecheler has been researching and developing large-scale graph database systems for many years in both academia and in his role as a cofounder of the Aurelius graph consulting firm. He is the primary developer of the distributed graph database Titan. Matthias focuses most of his time and effort on novel OLTP and OLAP graph processing solutions.

 Presentation sponsored by Pearson, Aurelius, and Jive Software.