Abstract
Graph aggregation is an important operation when studying graphs and has been applied in many fields. The heterogeneity, fine-granularity and semantic richness of RDF graphs introduce unique requirements when aggregating the data. In this work, we propose Gagg, an RDF graph aggregation operator that is both expressive and flexible. We provide a formal definition of Gagg on top of SPARQL Algebra, define its operational semantics and describe an algorithm to answer graph aggregation queries. Our evaluation results show significant improvements in performance compared to plain-SPARQL graph aggregation.
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1 Introduction
With the increasing adoption of graph data in various domains, the importance of graph measures and algorithms is growing. Graph traversal, centrality measures, and graph aggregation are being used to analyse social [31], transportation [2] and biological networks [23, 27]. This paper focuses on graph aggregation.
Graph aggregation condenses a large graph into a structurally similar but smaller graph by collapsing vertices and edges. Graph aggregation was applied to the Web graph to group Web pages by their domains in order to efficiently compute PageRank scores [6]. Similarly, [11] proposed ranking RDF datasets by aggregating their resources. In biological network studies, example usages of graph aggregation include enhancing data visualisation [19] and studying transcriptional regulatory networks [12]. Graph aggregation is also used to provide business intelligence on top of graph data [5, 8, 28, 33]. Furthermore, many measures in social network analysis [14] and in bibliometrics [15, 17] are also based on aggregating the underlying graphs.
RDF, the data model underlying the Semantic Web, is a graph data model that is used in bio-informaticsFootnote 1, social networks [24], bibliography [13, 26], etc. Therefore, graph aggregation is one of the tools used to analyse RDF data. In addition to the examples mentioned before, aggregating RDF graphs has been also used to induce schemas [7, 20, 21], produce descriptive statistics [1, 3, 22] and build indices [18, 25].
While there exists a number of systems to aggregate graph data [8, 30, 32, 33], these systems do not provide the expressivity necessary to handle RDF data. The heterogeneity, fine-granularity and semantic richness of RDF graphs introduce unique requirements when aggregating the data. For instance, Fig. 2 shows an example bibliographic RDF data describing some papers and their authors. One might be interested in studying co-authorship structure between authors or at a more coarse-grained level, between organisations (Fig. 3a). Similarly, one might choose to aggregate the data to study the structure of citation between authors, organisations or conferences (Fig. 3c). Such expressivity cannot be achieved by existing tools, proposed mainly in the field of graph databases, because the dimensions of aggregation and the relationship (e.g., co-authorship) is not explicitly defined in the original data.
Furthermore, all graph aggregation operators have been defined as separate operators. Hence, these operators cannot make use of the expressivity and optimisation techniques already built in existing data models such as relational or SPARQL algebra. Moreover, this necessitates transforming the data and loading it into different systems.
In this paper, we define Gagg, an RDF graph aggregation operator for RDF data that is both expressive and flexible. We provide a formal definition of Gagg based on existing SPARQL operators (Sect. 3) and devise an algorithm for efficient evaluation of Gagg expressions (Sect. 4). Furthermore, we demonstrate the expressivity and efficiency of Gagg in our evaluation (Sect. 5).
Aggregation of RDF graphs can be achieved using existing SPARQL 1.1 [16] operators. An aggregated graph requires a complicated single SPARQL query (a combination of sub-queries, CONSTRUCT and GROUP BY operators) or a series of SPARQL queries to aggregate nodes and edges (as done in [22] for instance). Such queries become complicated and verbose and therefore hard to write, debug and optimise. Having graph aggregation as a first-class operator simplifies query writing and optimisation. Moreover, our evaluation results show that Gagg can run up to orders of magnitudes faster than a monolithic SPARQL query and about 3 times faster than a series of fine tuned queries.
2 Related Work
On-Line Analytical Processing [9] (OLAP) has been first proposed as a way for people to analyse multi-dimensional data. Several works aim at analysing graph data using the OLAP paradigm. The Graph Cube [33] paper considers only simple graphs, while we target more complex graphs that are possible with the RDF graph model. The work in [8] proposes the aggregation of graph which changes the topology of the graph. However, we allow a more flexible definition of the aggregation dimensions in our approach. In this work, we introduce the graph aggregation as a graph operator that is anchored into graph algebra, allowing the graph aggregation to be part of a wider graph analysis flow.
The challenge of graph analysis has been studied within the Semantic Web community as well. The RDF Analytics [10] paper introduces an analytical schema over the data. This schema allows then to write analytical queries over the data, abstracting from the actual structure of the data. However, unlike Gagg this approach does not generate a graph as the analytical query output, thus preventing the use of the aggregated graph as the input of other graph operations.
The analysis of graph data under an aggregated form is investigated in several works [5, 28] with an application oriented towards business logic.
The process of graph summarisation which represents a graph with a smaller graph that is homomorphic to the original graph is investigated in [7, 30, 32]. Such works apply a Gagg-like operation over the data. Therefore, the Gagg operator can be used to alleviate the cost of performing such operations.
3 Model
Gagg is defined in two-steps as shown in Fig. 1. Firstly, nodes and edges in the original graph \(G\) are grouped together in an intermediate graph that we call the grouped graph. Secondly, the grouped graph is reduced into an aggregated graph.
The first step is based on a set of dimensions that defines how nodes and edges are grouped together. For example, in Fig. 2 the resources :a1 and :a2 are grouped together when aggregating authors by the organisation they are member of. As we detail later, we use SPARQL operators as a flexible and powerful way to define grouping criteria.
The second step condenses the grouped graph into the final aggregated graph. This operation is done by what we call a graph reduce function. A template similar to that of SPARQL construct is used by the graph reduce function to structure the final results. In this template, typical aggregate functions such as sum and count, can be applied to the nodes and edges in the grouped graph. It is worth pointing out that the grouped graph is not an RDF graph as its nodes represent sets of resources, while the aggregated graph is an RDF graph that can be used as input for further processing.
3.1 Preliminaries
We present in this section the fundamental concepts used throughout the paper.
Definition 1
(Data Graph). A data graph \(G\) defined over a set of terms \(\mathcal {T}\) is a tuple \(G = \left\langle V, A, l_V \right\rangle \), where \(V\) is a set of nodes, \(A \subseteq V \times \mathcal {T} \times V\) is the set of labelled edges, and \(l_V : V \mapsto \mathcal {T}\) is a node labelling function. The \(l_V\) function is an injection, meaning that each node has a unique label.
We assume the existence of a set of variables \(\mathcal {X}\) which symbols are not part of the set of labels \(\mathcal {T}\), i.e., \(\mathcal {X} \cap \mathcal {T} = \emptyset \). A query is expressed as a set of patterns that are matched against the graph data. A triple pattern is the atomic element for building a graph query, which matches an edge of the graph.
Definition 2
(Triple Pattern). A triple pattern \((s,p,o)\) is a triple where any of the three components can be either a variable or a term, i.e., the triplet \((s,p,o) \in (\mathcal {T} \bigcup \mathcal {X}) \times (\mathcal {T} \bigcup \mathcal {X}) \times (\mathcal {T} \bigcup \mathcal {X})\).
Definition 3
(Basic Graph Pattern). A basic graph pattern (BGP) is a set of triple patterns.
Basic graph patterns in SPARQL represent conjunctive queries. From henceforward, we use the conjunctive query notationFootnote 2 \(q(\bar{x}) \; := \; t_1, \cdots , t_n\) where \(t_1, \cdots , t_n\) are triple patterns and therefore \(\{t_1, \cdots , t_n\}\) is a BGP.
We denote by \(Var(q)\) the set of variables occurring in the query \(q\). The query head variables \(\bar{x}\) are called distinguished variables, and are a subset of the variables occurring in \(t_1, \cdots , t_n\), i.e., we have \(\bar{x} \subseteq Var(q)\).
We denote with \(q(G)\) the set of solutions of \(q\) on \(G\). For the evaluation of a query \(q\) against a graph \(G\), we refer the reader to the W3C Recommendation [16].
Definition 4
(Join Query). Let \(q_1, \cdots , q_n\) be basic graph patterns which non-distinguished variables are pairwise disjoints. We call the query \(q(\bar{x}) \; := \; q_1(\bar{x}_1) \wedge \cdots \wedge q_n(\bar{x}_n)\) a join query of \(q_1, \cdots , q_n\), where \(\bar{x} \subseteq \bar{x}_1 \cup \cdots \cup \bar{x}_n\).
A join query combines multiple BGPs and joins them based on their shared distinguished variables.
3.2 Graph Aggregation Operator
We build on the definitions introduced before to define a graph aggregation operator. In particular, dimensions used for aggregation, measures that are to be aggregated, and the relations between nodes in the graph are all expressed as queries. A dimension is a query with two distinguished variables \(q(x,v)\) that defines how resources (bound to \(x\)) are grouped based on associated values (bound to \(v\)). Similarly, a measure is also a query with two distinguished variables \(q(x,m)\) that associates with each resource (bound to \(x\)) a value to be measured and later aggregated (bound to \(m\)). In Fig. 3b, \(q(x,org) \; := \; (x, \mathtt :member ,org)\) is one of the dimensions used to group authors while \(q(x,p) \; := \; (p, \mathtt :creator ,x)\) is the measure associated with each node as we are counting the papers written by each author.
A relation query is a query with four distinguished variables \(q(x,p,y,m)\) that defines related resources (bound to \(x\) and \(y\), respectively), labels the relation (via the value bound to \(p\)), and determines the measure associated with this relation (bound to \(m\)). In Fig. 3b, the relation query used is:
Notice that \(p1\) is used as a measure since we are interested in counting the papers. Additionally, the relation is bound to the constant value :cite to give it a readable nameFootnote 3.
Definition 5
(Grouped Graph). A grouped graph is a graph \((\mathcal {V},\mathcal {A},l_\mathcal {V})\) with two associated functions: \(dimensions:\mathcal {V} \rightarrow 2^\mathcal {T}\) and \(measures:\mathcal {V} \cup \mathcal {A} \rightarrow 2^\mathcal {T}\).
Figure 4 shows an example grouped graph with its associated \(dimensions\) and \(measures\) functions.
Definition 6
(Graph Reduce Function). A graph reduce function \(f\) is a function that maps a grouped graph into a data graph.
We are now ready to provide a definition of the Graph Aggregation Query.
Definition 7
(Graph Aggregation Query). A graph aggregation query is a tuple \(\mathcal {Q} = \left( D,M,E,N,R,f\right) \) such that:
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\(R\) is a relation query with distinguished variables \(x,p,y,o\);
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\(D\) is a set of dimensions such that for each dimension \(d \in D\) the distinguished variables of \(d\) are \(x, v_d\) for some unique variable \(v_d\);
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\(E\) is a set of dimensions such that for each dimension \(c \in E\) the distinguished variables of \(c\) are \(y, v_c\) for some unique variable \(v_c\);
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two measure queries \(M\) and \(N\) with distinguished variables \(x,m\) and \(y,n\), respectively;
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a graph reduce function \(f\).
In the definition above, \(R\) is meant to define related nodes in the typical form of (subject, predicate, object) with an associated measure. \(D\) and \(E\) are the set of dimensions to group the subjects and objects defined by \(R\). While the dimensions for subjects and objects can be the same, Fig. 3c depicts an example where it is beneficial to group subjects and object by different dimensions. Finally, \(M\) and \(N\) are the measures for subject and object nodes.
3.3 Operational Semantics
A grouped graph \(\mathcal {G}=(\mathcal {V}, \mathcal {A}, l_\mathcal {V})\) is the result of grouping a data graph \(G=(V,A,l_V)\) according to the graph aggregation query \(Q=(D,M,E,N,R,f)\) if the following holds:
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\(w \in \mathcal {V}\) and \(dimensions(w)=d\) iff \(\exists (r,d) \in D(G)\) or \((r,d) \in E(G)\) Footnote 4. In this case we say that the node \(r\) in the original graph maps to the node \(w\) in the grouped graph and denote this as \(r \mapsto w\);
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\((u,p,v) \in \mathcal {A}\) and \(o \in measures((u,p,v))\) iff \(\exists (r,p,s,o) \in R(G)\) such that \(r \mapsto u\) and \(s \mapsto v\);
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For all \(u \in \mathcal {V}\); \(a \in measures(u)\) iff \((r,a) \in M(G)\) or \((r,a) \in N(G)\) and \(r \mapsto u\).
4 Answering Graph Aggregation Queries
The evaluation of a graph aggregation query is performed in three steps: (1) building a binding table that is the solution of the queries defined by the dimensions, relation and measures; (2) building a grouped graph from the binding table; and (3) applying the reduce function over the grouped graph to achieve the final results.
4.1 Binding Table
Evaluating a query in SPARQL results in a binding table as detailed in [16]. The first step to answer a graph aggregation query \(\mathcal {Q}\) is to combine and evaluate the query:
The result is a binding table \(\mathfrak {B}\) which is a set of rows. If \(r\) is a row in \(\mathfrak {B}\) and \(x\) is a variable, we use \(r[x]\) to refer to the value bound with the variable \(x\) in \(r\). Delegating the evaluation of the binding table exploits the best practices and optimisation techniques already built in existing SPARQL engines.
4.2 Building the Grouped Graph
Algorithm 1 describes how starting from the binding table resulting from the previous step, a grouped graph compatible with the defined operational semantics can be built. The function GetGroupNode( \(v\) ) creates a node corresponding to the dimensions values \(v\), updates the \(dimensions\) mapping of \(\mathcal {G}\) and adds the created node to \(\mathcal {V}\). If a node corresponding to the dimension values already exists in \(\mathcal {V}\), the function just returns the node. The GetGroupNode function needs some hash structure that maps dimension values to nodes and keeps the measures associated with each node and edge. Assuming that this data structure fits in memory, the complexity of GetGroupNode is \(O(1)\). Consequently, Algorithm 1 has a complexity of \(O(|\mathfrak {B}|)\) as it scans the binding table only once.
4.3 Applying the Graph Reduce Function
The graph reduce function applies an aggregate function on the set of measures and restructure the grouped graph. One possible way to express a graph reduce function is to base it on a template similar to the one used in CONSTRUCT queries in SPARQL.
5 Evaluation
In this section, we discuss the expressivity of the Gagg operator and present an experimental performance comparison with plain SPARQL queries.
5.1 Expressivity
We have used Gagg to express type summary as defined in [7] and to reproduce VoID statistics similar to the results provided by previous systems [1, 22]. Furthermore, Gagg was applied to bibliographic data to compute a number of bibliometrics as shown in the next subsection. Finally, we have used Gagg to aggregate the LOD CloudFootnote 5. As this data is available in RDFFootnote 6 we were able to generate different versions of the LOD diagram by aggregating datasets by their topic, license, publisher, etc. Gagg is expressive enough to aggregate datasets and count them or sum their triples countsFootnote 7. Similarly, it can count the number of linksets and sum the number of interlinking triples. This provided views over the LOD cloud from a variety of perspectives.
5.2 Performance Evaluation
We extended the query algebra in Apache JenaFootnote 8 with the Gagg operator. The implementation builds the intermediate graph and then apply aggregate functions whose implementations are re-used from Jena. We compare the performance of the usage of Gagg to that of standard SPARQL. In particular, we report the average running time of four approachesFootnote 9:
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reduced provides incomplete results as it aggregates only the relationships and not the subjects and objects. This is included as a baseline to quantify the extra time needed by the other approaches to get the full results.
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fullSparql builds the aggregated graph using one CONSTRUCT SPARQL query. This query contains three sub-queries such that the first one defines the relationship, the second aggregates and counts subjects and the final one aggregates and counts objects.
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3Sparqls uses three separate CONSTRUCT SPARQL queries to build the aggregated graph. Similar to the fullSPARQL approach, one query defines the relationship and the other two queries aggregate subjects and objects. Notice that these queries need to rely to some characteristics of the data or some hashing function to assure that the results of the three queries use the same identifiers for the aggregated nodes. Therefore, writing these queries was relatively hard. The final result is the union of the three graphs resulted from the queries, however, to prevent introducing extra penalty on the running time, the values we report do not include the time needed to union the three results.
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Gagg uses the Gagg operator.
We used JUnitBenchmarksFootnote 10 to run the evaluation. JUnitBenchmarks performs JVM warm-up phases and repeat the execution multiple times to enhance the reliability of the reported times. The evaluation was run on a 4 core machine running Linux (3.18.1-3) at 2.60 GHz with 8 Gb of RAM. The JAVA version is 1.7.0_71.
We experimented with BSBM [4] and SP2B [29] datasets, varying the sizes of data. Two set of queries are used to perform two tasks: building a type summary and calculating some bibliometrics-based summary.
Type Summary.
For this graph aggregation query, all resources in the RDF data are grouped by their types (i.e., the values of rdf:type) and all relations between resources are grouped. The summary reports the number of instances per type and the number of relations of each type that exists between instances of two classes. This type of statistics are the ones reported in VoID statistics and in the RDF graph summary in [7].
In the corresponding Gagg operators, the set of dimensions of subjects and objects is \((?x,\) rdf:type \(,?t)\) and the relation ship query is \((?x, ?p, ?y)\).
Bibliometrics.
We report on three graph aggregation queries that were evaluated on top of SP2B data:
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co-authorship gets the graph structure of co-authorship. Nodes in the summary graph represent authors along with the number of papers they published while edges represent co-authorship between them along with the counts.
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citation gets the graph structure of author citation. Nodes in the summary graph represent authors along with the number of papers they authored while edges represent citation across authors along with their counts.
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conf-citation gets the graph structure of citation among papers grouped by the conference they are published in. Nodes in the summary graph represent conferences along with the number of papers published in each while edges represent citation across conferences along with their counts.
5.3 Discussion
The average running times to compute the Type Summary queries are reported in Table 1 while the average running times of the bibliometrics queries are shown in Table 2. Entries marked with N/A failed to finish as the machine ran out of memory or the execution took too long.
In general fullSparql approach showed the worst performance among the tested approaches. This is not surprising giving that dimensions and measures are evaluated three times in the fullSparql because results need to be aggregated along different dimensions each time, i.e., for subject, object and relation. Results of the three sub-queries of fullSparql also need to be joined together. In particular, the dramatic growth in the TypeSummary queries is due to the need for joining the results of the three sub-queries before aggregation. Because we are interested in aggregating all relations in the graph to compute a type summary, the sub-queries are not selective and produce large intermediary results. This is an extra overhead cost that both Gagg and 3Sparqls approaches avoid. In comparison to fullSparql, Gagg achieved up to two orders of magnitude improvement in response time.
The performance improvement of Gagg of about a 2.5 factor in comparison to 3Sparqls is reasonable. Gagg builds and scans the binding table once instead of three times. Nonetheless, it still performs the three aggregations.
Finally, in comparison to the reduced approach, the overhead that Gagg adds to achieve the full aggregated graphs is small. We remind that this approach gives incomplete results, since it does not aggregate the subject and object resources.
6 Conclusion
We introduce in this work an operator called Gagg for aggregating graph data. We defined the operator as a two-steps processing, where the graph is first grouped based on some dimensions, which is then reduced into an aggregated graph. The aggregated graph exhibits groups of dimensions and relations between such groups, as well as statistics associated to the groups and links. Our definition of the operator is formally anchored in the RDF algebra, making it possible to be composed with other graph operations. The actual aggregation of the graph can be fully customised by a user via the use of BGP queries. We showed in our evaluation that the graph aggregation Gagg improves significantly the performance of plain-SPARQL graph aggregation.
In future work, we plan to refine the formalisation of the Gagg operator to include (a) multi-valued dimensions; and (b) missing data, especially for the definition of dimensions. We plan also to investigate optimisations of graph queries using the Gagg operator. Moreover, providing a distributed implementation of Gagg might be an interesting direction to pursue.
Notes
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We reuse here some of the notations and definitions from [10].
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For the sake of simplicity, we slightly violated conjunctive query notation by using a constant in the header.
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\(q(G)\) is the solution of query \(q\) against graph \(G\). We extend the notion here to a set of queries where the result is the join query as defined before.
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The scripts to generate the aggregated graphs of the LOD Cloud diagram are available at https://github.com/fadmaa/rdf-graph-aggregation.
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https://jena.apache.org/ version 2.12.0.
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We report the SPARQL queries of the approaches at https://github.com/fadmaa/rdf-graph-aggregation.
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Fadi Maali is funded by the Irish Research Council, Embark Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme. This publication has emanated from research supported in part by a research grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289.
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