Graph Versus Relational Infrastructure for Social Network Analysis at Community Scale: Traversal, Centrality, Community Detection and the Data Path to Graph Neural Networks
Centrality, community and reach analyses of social platforms are graph traversals whose latency depends on the underlying data infrastructure. This paper compares a native graph engine (Neo4j 5.26 with the Graph Data Science library) and a relational engine (PostgreSQL 16) on the LDBC Social Network Benchmark at scale...