[SPARK-3799] Enable String ID's for GraphX

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: GraphX
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Fitzgerald
• Created: 04/Oct/14 23:04
• Updated: 04/Jan/16 14:51
• Resolved: 04/Jan/16 14:51

Description

One of the things I would like to use GraphX for is transforming Tabular data into sets for vertices and edges for ingestion into graph databases like neo4j and titan. This often involves identifying a set of string attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a vertex. Right now this is a very difficult process in spark. Assuming that the numeric id's are necessary, it would be nice if spark could assign id's in a manner that is transparent to the user.

Issue Links

• duplicates: SPARK-1153 Generalize VertexId in GraphX so that UUIDs can be used as vertex IDs.