Yeah, if you’re just worried about statistics, maybe you can do sampling (do 
single-pair paths from 100 random nodes and you get an idea of what percentage 
of nodes have what distribution of neighbors in a given distance).

Matei

On Mar 26, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Ryan Compton <compton.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Much thanks, I suspected this would be difficult. I was hoping to
> generate some "4 degrees of separation"-like statistics. Looks like
> I'll just have to work with a subset of my graph.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> All-pairs distances is tricky for a large graph because you need O(V^2) 
>> storage. Do you want to just quickly query the distance between two 
>> vertices? In that case you can do single-source shortest paths, which I 
>> believe exists in GraphX, or at least is very quick to implement on top of 
>> its Pregel API. If your graph is small enough that storing all-pairs is 
>> feasible, you can probably run this as an iterative algorithm: 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd–Warshall_algorithm, though I haven’t 
>> tried it. It may be tough to do with GraphX.
>> 
>> Matei
>> 
>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Ryan Compton <compton.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> To clarify: I don't need the actual paths, just the distances.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ryan Compton <compton.r...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> No idea how feasible this is. Has anyone done it?
>> 

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