Comment on Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?parentComments−heresie-dabord2yis producing a render really necessary for that decision, or is rendering the graph waste?Just to be clear, the OP already has a graph. There are nodes and relationships. The graph can be queried for understanding.Rendering the graph is tractable for a small graph or a portion of the graph.Trying to render all the nodes in an enormous graph is almost always an expensive quixotic adventure.−hasmanean2yExpensive quixotic adventure.Perhaps that is the experience he was after for his billion node graph.
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Just to be clear, the OP already has a graph. There are nodes and relationships. The graph can be queried for understanding.
Rendering the graph is tractable for a small graph or a portion of the graph.
Trying to render all the nodes in an enormous graph is almost always an expensive quixotic adventure.
Expensive quixotic adventure.
Perhaps that is the experience he was after for his billion node graph.