Property Graph#

Part of RAPIDS cuGraph, Property Graph allows all the great benefits of cuGraph to be applied to property-rich datasets stored in a graph structure. A Property Graph is really a data model rather than a type of graph. Within the cuGraph ecosystem, a Property Graph is a meta-graph that can encapsulate and instantiate all the other graph types. That view stems from property graphs being originally created for database systems. Conceptually a Property Graph can be viewed as a property rich structure that can be projected onto any graph types. The Dataversity, has a good definition of Property Graph which contains definitions from a collection of resources.

Sample Property Graph

Property Graph enables:

  • Multiple edge and node types as seen in the Property Graph API

  • Subgraph extractions based on properties and/or edge and node types as seen below.

  • Storage of properties either within the graph structure on gpu or using GNN-centric storage extensions on host storage.

  • Adding additional properties, nodes and edges into the property graph to store derived data like analytic results.

  • Client access managed by a remote server allowing shared access and remote operations using CuGraph Service.

This is an example of using the cuGraph Property Graph in a two stage analysis.

import cudf
import cugraph
from cugraph.experimental import PropertyGraph

# Import a built-in dataset
from cugraph.datasets import karate

# Read edgelist data into a DataFrame, load into PropertyGraph as edge data.
# Create a graph using the imported Dataset object
graph = cugraph.Graph(directed=False)
G = karate.get_graph(create_using=graph,fetch=True)

df = G.edgelist.edgelist_df
pG = PropertyGraph()
pG. add_edge_data(df, vertex_col_names=("src", "dst"))

# Run Louvain to get the partition number for each vertex.
# Set resolution accordingly to identify two primary partitions.
(partition_info, _) = cugraph.louvain(pG.extract_subgraph(create_using=graph), resolution=0.6)

# Add the partition numbers back to the Property Graph as vertex properties
pG.add_vertex_data(partition_info, vertex_col_name="vertex")

# Use the partition properties to extract a Graph for each partition.
G0 = pG.extract_subgraph(selection=pG.select_vertices("partition == 0"))
G1 = pG.extract_subgraph(selection=pG. select_vertices("partition == 1"))
# Run pagerank on each graph, print results.
pageranks0 = cugraph.pagerank(G0)
pageranks1 = cugraph.pagerank(G1)
print(pageranks0.sort_values (by="pagerank", ascending=False).head(3))
print(pageranks1.sort_values (by="pagerank", ascending=False).head(3))
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