Hi Zhipeng, Good that you've reached out, I wasn't aware that Gelly is being used in Alink. Are you proposing to write a new graph library as a successor of Gelly and bundle that with Alink?
Best regards, Martijn On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 02:57, Zhipeng Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for starting the discussion :) > > We (Alink team [1]) are actually using part of the Gelly library to > support graph algorithms (connected component, single source shortest path, > etc.) for users in Alibaba Inc. > > As DataSet API is going to be dropped, shall we also provide a new graph > library based on DataStream runtime (similar as we did for machine > learning)? > > [1] https://github.com/Alibaba/alink > > David Anderson <[email protected]> 于2022年1月4日周二 00:01写道： > >> Most of the inquiries I've had about Gelly in recent memory have been >> from folks looking for a streaming solution, and it's only been a handful. >> >> +1 for dropping Gelly >> >> David >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:41 PM Till Rohrmann <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I haven't seen any changes or requests to/for Gelly in ages. Hence, I >>> would assume that it is not really used and can be removed. >>> >>> +1 for dropping Gelly. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Till >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:20 PM Martijn Visser <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> Flink is bundled with Gelly, a Graph API library [1]. This has been >>>> marked as approaching end-of-life for quite some time [2]. >>>> >>>> Gelly is built on top of Flink's DataSet API, which is deprecated and >>>> slowly being phased out [3]. It only works on batch jobs. Based on the >>>> activity in the Dev and User mailing lists, I don't see a lot of questions >>>> popping up regarding the usage of Gelly. Removing Gelly would reduce CI >>>> time and resources because we won't need to run tests for this anymore. >>>> >>>> I'm cross-posting this to the User mailing list to see if there are any >>>> users of Gelly at the moment. >>>> >>>> Let me know your thoughts. >>>> >>>> Martijn Visser | Product Manager >>>> >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/libs/gelly/overview/ >>>> >>>> [2] https://flink.apache.org/roadmap.html >>>> >>>> [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/b2y3xx3thbcbtzdphoct5wvzwogs9sqz >>>> >>>> <https://www.ververica.com/> >>>> >>>> >>>> Follow us @VervericaData >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink >>>> Conference >>>> >>>> Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time >>>> >>>> > > -- > best, > Zhipeng > >
