Table of Contents

Part I: Giraph Building Blocks 1. Introduction to Graphs and Giraph 2. Modeling Graph Processing Use Cases 3. The Giraph Programming Model 4. Giraph Algorithmic Building Blocks Part II: Giraph Overview 5. Working with Giraph 6. Giraph Architecture 7. Graph I/O Formats 8. Beyond the Basic API Part III: Advanced Topics 9. Exposing Parallelism in Giraph 10. Beyond HDFS 11. Giraph Tuning 12. Giraph in the Cloud

About the Author

Roman Shaposhnik is a vice-president and one of the lead developers of Apache Bigtop, a 100% open source and community-driven big data management distribution built on top of Apache Hadoop. He has been working on making Hadoop ecosystem components more accessible and easier to use, and he has contributed to a wide array of Apache projects from Avro to Zookeeper. In addition to his day job building Data Fabric APIs at Pivotal Inc., Roman currently serves as a vice-president of Apache Incubator, helping exciting and new open source projects join the Apache family.