Graph Gurus Episode 11: Accumulators for Complex Graph Analytics

Graph Gurus
Episode 11
Using Accumulators in GSQL
for Complex Graph Analytics

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Victor Lee
Director of Product Management
● BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
from UC Berkeley, MS in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University
● PhD in Computer Science from Kent State University
focused on graph data mining
● 15+ years in tech industry
Gaurav Deshpande
Vice President of Marketing
● Built out and positioned IBM’s Big Data and Analytics
portfolio, driving 45 percent year-over-year growth.
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● Big Data Analytics Veteran, 14 patents in supply chain
management and big data analytics

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Accumulators
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Example: A teacher collects test papers
from all students and calculates an
average score.
Teacher: node with an accumulator
Student: node
Student-to-teacher: edge
Test paper: message sent to
accumulator
Average Score: final value of
accumulator
Phase 1: teacher collects all the test
papers
Phase 2: teacher grades it and
calculates the average score.

Example 1: Counting Movies Seen by
Friends
Analogy: You ask each of your friends to tally how many movies they
saw last year (They work at the same time → Parallelism!)
● This is the Gathering phase
● Next, you need to
Consolidate into one list.
→ Eliminate the duplicates Lee
Bob
Chris
Sue
If we are only counting (not recording names),
How can we eliminate duplicates?
P
Q
R
S
T

Eliminating Duplication: visited flag
● Traditional method: Each target
Item has a true/false "flag", initialized to "false"
● If a flag is "false":
○ It may be counted;
Set the flag to "true"
● If a flag is "true":
○ Skip it
● ⇒ Each item is counted once
Lee
Bob
Chris
Sue
If we are only counting (not recording names),
How can we eliminate duplicates?

Counting Movies with Accumulators
An accumulator is a runtime, shared variable with a built-in update
function.
1. Each friend's tally is a local Accumulator.
2. The visited flag is also a local Accumulator.
a. Bob, Chris, and Sue all visit "R", but we don't know who will first.
3. GSQL queries are designed to let each friend work in parallel, but
at its own pace, and in any order
4. Consolidate the Lists into one global Accumulator.
Bob: 2 (P, Q) Chris: 1 (S)
Sue: 2 (R,T)

Optimization: One global list/tally
Instead of each friend keeping a separate tally…
Keep only one tally.
● Eliminates the consolidate step
● Saves memory
Each friend still works separately,
but they record their efforts in one common place.
Lee
Bob
Chris
Sue

friendsMovieCount GSQL Query
CREATE QUERY friendsMovieCount (VERTEX me) {
OrAccum @visited = false; // @ means local
SumAccum<INT> @@movieCount; // @@ means global
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Start = {me};
Friends = SELECT f # 1. Identify my friends
FROM Start:s -(friendOf:e)- Person:f;
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Movies = SELECT m # 2. Identify the movies they've seen
FROM Friends:f -(saw:r)- Movie:m
ACCUM
IF m.@visited == false THEN
@@movieCount += 1, m.@visited += true; # 3. Count each movie once
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PRINT @@movieCount;
}

Review - Accumulator Properties
● Scope: Local (per vertex) or global
● Multiple data types and functions available
○ For flag: Boolean true/false data, OR function
○ For tally: Integer data, Sum function
● Supports multi-worker processing for parallelism
○ Shared: Anyone can read
○ Shared: Anyone can update submit an update request
○ All the accumulated updates are processed at once, at the end.

Types of Accumulators
The GSQL language provides many different accumulators, which follow the
same rules for receiving and accessing data. However each of them has their
unique way of aggregating values.
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Old Value:
2
New Value:
11
1, 3, 5
1
3 5
SumAccum<int>
Old Value:
2
New Value:
5
1, 3, 5
1 3
MaxAccum<int>
Old Value:
2
New Value:
1
1, 3, 5
1 3
MinAccum<int>
Old Value:
2
New Value:
2.75
1, 3, 5
1 3
AvgAccum
5 5 5
Computes and stores the
cumulative sum of numeric
values or the cumulative
concatenation of text values.
cumulative maximum of
a series of values.
cumulative mean of a
series of numeric values.
cumulative minimum of
a series of values.

The GSQL language provides many different accumulators, which follow the
same rules for receiving and accessing data. However each of them has their
unique way of aggregating values.
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Old Value:
[2]
New Value:
[2,1,3,5]
1, 3, 3, 5
1 3 5
SetAccum<int>
Old Value:
[2]
New Value:
[2,1,5,3,3]
1, 5, 3, 3
1 3
ListAccum<int>
Old Value:
[1->1]
New Value:
1->6
5->2
1->2
1->3
5->2
1->2 1->3
MapAccum<int,SumAccum<int>>
Old Value:
[userD,150]
New Value:
[userC,300,
UserD,150,
userA,100]
userC,300
userA,100
(“userA”, 100)
HeapAccum<Tuple>
5 5->23 3 (“userC”, 300)
Maintains a collection of
unique elements.
Maintains a sequential
collection of elements.
Maintains a collection of
(key → value) pairs.
Maintains a sorted collection of
tuples and enforces a
maximum number of tuples in
the collection
Types of Accumulators, continued

Use Case: Graph Algorithms
PageRank analyzes the WHOLE graph
● For each node V:
PR(V) = sum [ PR(A)
/deg(A)
+ PR(B)
/deg(B)
+ PR(C)
/deg(C)
]
○ Summing contributions from several independent nodes
→ Ideal task for accumulators and parallel processing
● Compute a score for each node → parallelism
● Iterative method: Keep recalculating PR(v) for the full graph,
unless the max change in PR < threshold → MaxAccum
V
A
B
C

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Input:
A person p, two integer parameters k1
and k2
Algorithm steps:
1. Find all movies p has rated;
2. Find all persons rated same movies as p;
3. Based on the movie ratings, find the k1
persons that have most similar tastes with p;
4. Find all movies these k1
persons rated that p hasn’t rated yet;
5. Recommend the top k2
movies with highest average rating by the k1
persons;
Output:
At most k2
movies to be recommended to person p.
p
…...
rate
rate
rate
PRatedMovies
PSet
…...
PeopleRatedSameMovies
rate
rate
rate
rate
…...
rate
rate
rate
rate
Implementing Movie Recommendation Algorithm

More Use Cases: Anti-Fraud
TestDrive Anti-Fraud: https://testdrive.tigergraph.com/main/dashboard
CIrcle Detection:
● Is money passing from A → B → C → … → back to A?
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Demo
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Summary
• Graph Traversal and Graph Analytics can be
complex, but also amenable to parallelism.
• Accumulators, coupled with the TigerGraph MPP
engine, provide simple and efficient parallelized
aggregation.
• Accumulators come in a variety of shapes and sizes,
to fit all different needs.
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Q&A
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