This presentation introduces Titan, Faunus, and scalable graph computing in general. We present a case study of how Pearson builds an education social network on top of Titan, Faunus, and Cassandra to support learning in the 21st century. Titan is an open source distributed graph database build on top of Cassandra that can power real-time applications with thousands of concurrent users over graphs with billions of edges. Faunus is an open source global graph processing engine build on top of Hadoop and compatible with Cassandra that can analyze graphs, compute graph statistics, and execute global traversals. Titan and Faunus are components of the Aurelius Graph Cluster which enables scalable graph computation and powers applications in social networking, recommendation engines, advertisement optimization, knowledge representation, health care, education, and security.

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THINKAURELIUS.COM
TITAN
Distributed Graph Computing
Matthias Broecheler, CTO
@mbroecheler
June XI, MMXIII
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2. This presentation introduces Titan, Faunus, and scalable graph
computing in general. We present a case study of how Pearson
builds an education social network on top of Titan, Faunus, and
Cassandra to support learning in the 21st century.
Titan is an open source distributed graph database build on top
of Cassandra that can power real-time applications with
thousands of concurrent users over graphs with billions of
edges. Faunus is an open source global graph processing engine
build on top of Hadoop and compatible with Cassandra that can
analyze graphs, compute graph statistics, and execute global
traversals. Titan and Faunus are components of the Aurelius
Graph Cluster which enables scalable graph computation and
powers applications in social networking, recommendation
engines, advertisement optimization, knowledge
representation, health care, education, and security.

3. Thank You!
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29. Aurelius Graph Cluster
Stores a massive-scale
property graph allowing real-
time traversals and updates
Batch processing of large
graphs with Hadoop
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on large, compressed,
in-memory graphs
Map/Reduce
Load & Compress
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back into Titan
Bulk Load
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titan.thinkaurelius.com
faunus.thinkaurelius.com

30. Special Thanks
Steve Hill (@kindageeky)
Director Architecture & Innovation
at Pearson Education

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