A comparison of state-of-the-art graph processing systems

This post provides a quantitative and qualitative comparison between Apache Giraph and Spark GraphX for large-scale graph processing at Facebook. It details the methodology, experiment setup, and key findings regarding performance, scalability, and usability. The study reveals that Giraph can process significantly larger graphs and performs better and more efficiently than GraphX for production workloads, while GraphX offers some advantages in ease of development for certain preprocessing tasks.