MPC: Minimum Property-Cut RDF Graph Partitioning

Scaling-out RDF processing to deal with graph size usually requires partitioning the RDF graph. Typical partitioning approaches minimize edge-cuts or vertex-cuts. In this paper we argue that these approaches do not avoid or reduce joins between different partitions (i.e., inter-partition join), and propose an approach based on minimizing the number of distinct crossing properties, which we call Minimum Property-Cut (MPC). This approach enables more queries to be independently evaluated without inter-partition join. However, the minimum property-cut partitioning is a NP-hard problem and we propose a heuristic greedy algorithm to address that. Extensive experiments over a variety of synthetic and real RDF graphs show that the proposed technique can significantly avoid joins and results in good performance.