Big Graph Analytics: The State of the Art and Future Research Agenda

Analytics over big graphs is becoming a first-class challenge in database research, with fast-growing interest from both the academia and the industrial community. This problem arises in several application scenarios, ranging from social networks to large-scale network systems, from knowledge discovery to cybersecurity, and so forth. Following this major trend, this paper explores actual state-of-the-art results in the area of analytics over big graphs and discusses open research issues and actual trends in such area.