Elasticity in Graph Analytics? A Benchmarking Framework for Elastic Graph Processing

Alexandru Uta, Sietse Au, Alexey Ilyushkin, Alexandru Iosup

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Abstract

Graphs are a natural fit for modeling concepts used in solving diverse problems in science, commerce, engineering, and governance. Responding to the diversity of graph data and algorithms, many parallel and distributed graph-processing systems exist. However, until now these platforms use a static model of deployment: they only run on a pre-defined set of machines. This raises many conceptual and pragmatic issues, including misfit with the highly dynamic nature of graph processing, and could lead to resource waste and high operational costs. In contrast, in this work we explore the benefits and drawbacks of the dynamic model of deployment. Building a threelayer benchmarking framework for assessing elasticity in graph analytics, we conduct an in-depth elasticity study of distributed graph processing. Our framework is composed of state-ofthe-art workloads, autoscalers, and metrics, derived from the LDBC Graphalytics benchmark and SPEC RG Cloud Group’s elasticity metrics. We uncover the benefits and cost of elasticity in graph processing: while elasticity allows for fine-grained resource management, and does not degrade application performance, we find that graph workloads are sensitive to data migration while leasing or releasing resources. Moreover, we identify non-trivial interactions between scaling policies and graph workloads, which add an extra level of complexity to resource management and scheduling for graph processing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)
EditorsL. O'Conner, H. Torres
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Pages381-391
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)978-153868319-4
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-8320-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018 - Belfast, United Kingdom
Duration: 10 Sept 201813 Sept 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBelfast
Period10/09/1813/09/18

Keywords

  • elasticity
  • grah analytics
  • graph processing
  • dynamic scaling
  • elascricity metrics
  • benchmark

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