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The Future is Tiny Graphs! [1]

In the style of "Scalability! At What COST?" I've started a side-project bringing succinct data structures (rank/select [2], elias-fano coding) and modern instruction sets (popcount, pdep) to graphs.

For some reason the article doesn't mention the field of graph compression and I think it shows: for example most if not all popular open source routing engines don't do anything regarding graph compression. It's time to change that! Reach out to me (preferably on the Github project) if you want try some ideas :)

[1] https://tinygraph.org [2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/zhou-sea2013.pdf



We built TerminusDB[1], our OSS knowledge graph, using succinct data structures. As we have a immutable delta encoding approach to allow domain teams to build and curate data products that they then share, this has been a very fruitful combination. We wrote a technical white paper all about it! [2]

[1] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb [2] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/white...




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