prior and ongoing work – most of it outside, or on top of, general-‐purpose data management systems l Specialized indexes or algorithms for specific types of queries l Stand-‐alone prototypes for specific analysis tasks l Emergence of specialized graph databases in recent years l Neo4j, Titan, OrientDB, DEX, AllegroGraph, … l Rudimentary declara5ve interfaces/query languages l Several “vertex-‐centric” frameworks in recent years l Pregel, Giraph, GraphLab, GRACE, GraphX, … l Only work well for a very limited set of tasks l Li?le work on con5nuous/real-‐5me query processing, or on suppor5ng evolu5onary or temporal analy5cs