How To Visualize Graphs

Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle Ask TOM Office Hours:
How to Visualize Graphs
Create graph visualizations with Oracle Database.
2018.8.28
Albert Godfrind, Solutions Architect @agodfrin
Gabriela Montiel-Moreno, Software Development Manager @gabimontielm
Jean Ihm, Product Manager @JeanIhm

AskTOM sessions on property graphs
• Today’s is the fourth session on property graphs
– February’s session introduced Property Graphs
– March's session explained how to model graphs from relational data
– May's session explained how to perform graph analytics
– In case you missed them, recordings are available at the URL above
• Today’s topic: How to Visualize Graphs
• Visit the Spatial and Graph landing page to view recordings; submit
feedback, questions, topic requests; view upcoming session dates and
topics; sign up
2
https://devgym.oracle.com/pls/apex/dg/office_hours/3084

3
The Story so far …

Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph
• Available for Big Data platform/BDCS
– Hadoop, HBase, Oracle NoSQL
• Supported both on BDA and commodity
hardware
– CDH and Hortonworks
• Database connectivity through Big Data
Connectors or Big Data SQL
• Included in Big Data Cloud Service
Oracle Spatial and Graph
• Available with Oracle 18c/12.2/DBCS
• Using tables for graph persistence
• Graph views on relational data
• In-database graph analytics
– Sparsification, shortest path, page rank, triangle
counting, WCC, sub graphs
• SQL queries possible
• Included in Database Cloud Service
4
Graph Product Options

Graph Data Access Layer (DAL)
5
Architecture of Property Graph
Graph Analytics (PGX)
Blueprints/Tinkerpop/Gremlin
REST/WebService
APIs
Java,Groovy,Python,…
Scalable and Persistent Storage Management
Oracle NoSQL
Database
Oracle RDBMS Apache HBase
What we focus
on now
Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics

• What is a graph?
– Data model representing entities as
vertices and relationships as edges
– Optionally including attributes
• Flexible data model
– No predefined schema, easily extensible
– Particularly useful for sparse data
• Enabling new kinds of analytics
– Overcoming limitations in relational
technology
6
Graph Data Model
E
A D
C B
F

Graph Analysis for Business Insight
7
Identify
Influencers
Discover Graph Patterns
in Big Data
Generate
Recommendations

8
Viewing Graphs. Why and How ?

Why Visualize Graphs ?
• Analytics identify important vertices
• Analytics identify relationships
• A visual graph highlights the results
9

Copyright © 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10
https://www.macalester.edu/~abeverid/thrones.html
A social network generated from
A Storm of Swords.
The color of a vertex indicates its
community.
The size of a vertex corresponds
to its PageRank value, and the
size of its label corresponds to its
betweenness centrality.
An edge’s thickness represents
its weight.

https://www.macalester.edu/~abeverid/thrones.html

• d3.js • vis.js
12
Graph Visualization Libraries
http://visjs.orghttp://d3js.org

Tom Sawyer Perspectives
• Desktop and Web
• Powerful and flexible
• Full Oracle Integration
13
http://www.tomsawyer.com

Linkurious
• Server-based (Node.JS)
• Light-weight JavaScript
visualizer
• Powerful rendering
• Oracle integration
14
https://www.slideshare.net/Linkurious/how-to-visualize-oracle-big-data-spatial-and-graph-with-ogma
https://linkurio.us/visualize-oracle-graph-data-ogma-library/
https://linkurio.us

• Open Source
• Originally for biological research
• Now a general platform for
complex graph analysis and
visualization
• Desktop / Pure Java
• Extensible via Plug-ins
• Also Javascript library
(cytoscape.js)
15
http://www.cytoscape.org

Interactive Analysis with Property Graph Plug-in

Download the Proper Version for Your Platform
• Can also install older
versions
• All the way back to
version 2.1
17
http://www.cytoscape.org

Configure Property Graph Plugins

For Oracle Spatial and Graph For Big Data Spatial and Graph
19
Property Graph Plug-ins for Cytoscape
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/s
patialandgraph/downloads/index-156999.html
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-
technologies/bigdata-spatialandgraph/downloads/bdsp-
downloads-2562575.html

Cytoscape Configuration for Oracle Database
Database Configuration
oracle.rdbms.jdbc-url The JDBC connection url: “jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port:sid”
oracle.rdbms.username The username value to establish the JDBC connection
oracle.rdbms.graph-name The graph name to be loaded by default.
Database Configuration
oracle-pg-pgx.num.workers.io
The number of workers to be executed for input/output
operations
oracle-pg-pgx.num.workers.analysis
The number of workers to be executed for analysis
operations
oracle-pg-pgx.server.instance.url
The url where the analyst service endpoint will be executed.
For example: http://127.0.0.1:7007/
20
File propertyGraph.properties

Cytoscape Features

Establishing a connection to Oracle DB

Graph Manipulation
Request Graph
Information
Data Access Layer
Oracle Database

Retrieve schema
information
Data Access Layer
Graph Manipulation
Oracle Database

Graph Manipulation
Data Access Layer
Create temporary graph
Oracle Database

Graph Manipulation
Data Access LayerCreate temporary graph
Visualize temporary
graph

Visualizing Properties on Nodes and Edges
27

Searching …
28

Visual Mapping Rules
29

Finding the Shortest Path Between Two Vertices

Execute PGQL
Edit the query or
load from a file
Add the properties

Execute PGQL
Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics (PGX)PGQL Query

Execute PGQL
PGQL Query Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics (PGX)
Read original
graph
Oracle Database

Execute PGQL
PGQL Query Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics (PGX)
Execute query

Execute PGQL
Results Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics (PGX)
Execute query

Execute PGQL
Results Parallel In-Memory Graph Analytics (PGX)
Execute query
Visualize

Saving Analytics Results
• Current visible graph can be
stored for an easy retrieval in the
future as sub-graphs
• Each sub-graph represents a
successor of N depth-level of the
original graph
• Internally the hierarchy of sub-
graphs is managed by a meta-
graph.

Load Graph Data From Saved Sub-graphs

Import a Graph Data File
• Multiple Files supported:
– GML
– GraphSON
– GML
– Oracle Flat File

Adding Vertices

Adding Edges

Removing Vertices

43
Demo

Demo
44

45
Resources

Resources
• Oracle Spatial and Graph & Big Data Spatial and Graph on OTN
oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/spatialandgraph
oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/bigdata-spatialandgraph
– White papers, software downloads, documentation and videos
• Blogs – examples, tips & tricks
blogs.oracle.com/oraclespatial | blogs.oracle.com/bigdataspatialgraph
• Property Graphs 101: How to Get Started with Property Graphs on the Oracle Database –
Arthur Dayton, Vlamis Software https://youtu.be/QSj0zOjOAWI
• YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZqBavfLlCuS0il6zNY696w
• Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine - a free sandbox to get started
www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html
– Hands On Lab included in /opt/oracle/oracle-spatial-graph/ or http://github.com/oracle/BigDataLite/
46

Tutorials
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E56133_01/latest/tutorials/index.html

Resources – social media and online communities
• Follow the product team: @SpatialHannes, @JeanIhm, @agodfrin
• Oracle Spatial and Graph SIG user groups (search “Oracle Spatial and
Graph Community”)
48

Oracle OpenWorld and Code One 2018
• Oracle‘s flagship conference with expanded developer content
• Graph sessions and demos will include:
– Introduction to Graph Analytics and Graph Cloud Service
– How to Analyze Data Warehouse Data as a Graph
– Anomaly Detection with Graph Analytics
– Build Serverless Big Data and Graph Visualization Web Applications using Spring Data
and Core Java (Tom Sawyer Software)
– Graph Query Language for Navigating Complex Data
– Extend BI/DW by Modeling a Star Schema as a Property Graph in Oracle Database 12.2
– When Graphs Meet Machine Learning
– Analyzing Blockchain and Bitcoin Transaction Data as Graphs
oracle.com/code-one | October 21-25, San Francisco, CA

Including Oracle Spatial and Graph Summit
analyticsanddatasummit.org
50
Oracle HQ Conference Center, Redwood Shores, California

AskTOM sessions on property graphs
• Next Spatial and Graph session in October
– Topic: PGQL: A Query Language for Graphs
• View recordings, submit feedback, questions,
topic requests, view upcoming session dates and
topics, sign up to get regular updates
51

52
Thanks for attending! See you next month.

How To Visualize Graphs

More Related Content

What's hot (14)

Similar to How To Visualize Graphs (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

How To Visualize Graphs