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Run graph algorithms

One of the overarching goals of Kuzu is to function as the go-to graph database for data science use cases.

Using the algo extension

The official algo Kuzu extension allows you to run graph algorithms directly inside Kuzu using Cypher queries. We currently support some common graph algorithms, including PageRank, Connected Components, and Louvain, and plan to grow the set of supported algorithms in the future.

Refer to the documentation for more details on how to install and use the extension.

Using NetworkX

NetworkX is a popular library in Python for graph algorithms and data science. In this section, we demonstrate Kuzu’s ease of use in exporting subgraphs to the NetworkX format using the get_as_networkx() function in the Python API. We also demonstrate the following capabilities:

  • Graph Visualization: We visualize subgraphs of interest via Kuzu Explorer.
  • PageRank: We compute PageRank on an extracted subgraph, store these values back in Kuzu’s node tables, and query them using Cypher.

We will use the MovieLens dataset. The linked dataset represents a smaller subset extracted from the original source and contains 610 User nodes, 9724 Movie nodes, 100,863 Rating edges, and 3684 Tags edges. The schema of the dataset is shown below.

Terminal window
mkdir ./movie_data/
curl -L -o ./movie_data/movies.csv https://kuzudb.com/data/movie-lens/movies.csv
curl -L -o ./movie_data/users.csv https://kuzudb.com/data/movie-lens/users.csv
curl -L -o ./movie_data/ratings.csv https://kuzudb.com/data/movie-lens/ratings.csv
curl -L -o ./movie_data/tags.csv https://kuzudb.com/data/movie-lens/tags.csv

Import data into Kuzu

Import the data into a Kuzu database using the Python API:

import kuzu


def copy_data(connection):
    connection.execute('CREATE NODE TABLE Movie (movieId INT64 PRIMARY KEY, year INT64, title STRING, genres STRING);')
    connection.execute('CREATE NODE TABLE User (userId INT64 PRIMARY KEY);')
    connection.execute('CREATE REL TABLE Rating (FROM User TO Movie, rating DOUBLE, timestamp INT64);')
    connection.execute('CREATE REL TABLE Tags (FROM User TO Movie, tag STRING, timestamp INT64);')


    connection.execute('COPY Movie FROM "./movies.csv" (HEADER=TRUE);')
    connection.execute('COPY User FROM "./users.csv" (HEADER=TRUE);')
    connection.execute('COPY Rating FROM "./ratings.csv" (HEADER=TRUE);')
    connection.execute('COPY Tags FROM "./tags.csv" (HEADER=TRUE);')


db = kuzu.Database("ml_small.kuzu")
conn = kuzu.Connection(db)
copy_data(conn)

Visualize subgraphs in Kuzu Explorer

You can visualize the imported data in Kuzu Explorer as shown in the previous section:

// Return the first two users, their movies, and their ratings
MATCH (u:User)-[r:Rating]->(m:Movie)
WHERE u.userId IN [1, 2]
RETURN u, r, m
LIMIT 100;

Export subgraph to NetworkX

You can extract a subgraph of the edges between User and Movie nodes (ignoring Tags edges) and convert it to a NetworkX graph G.

# pip install networkx
res = conn.execute('MATCH (u:User)-[r:Rating]->(m:Movie) RETURN u, r, m;')
G = res.get_as_networkx(directed=False)

We store the extracted subgraph as an undirected graph in NetworkX because the direction doesn’t matter for the PageRank algorithm.

Compute PageRank

Compute the PageRank of the subgraph G using NetworkX’s pagerank function.

import networkx as nx


pageranks = nx.pagerank(G)

The PageRank values for the Movie nodes can then be exported into a Pandas DataFrame:

import pandas as pd


pagerank_df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(pageranks, orient="index", columns=["pagerank"])
movie_df = pagerank_df[pagerank_df.index.str.contains("Movie")]
movie_df.index = movie_df.index.str.replace("Movie_", "").astype(int)
movie_df = movie_df.reset_index(names=["id"])
print(f"Calculated pageranks for {len(movie_df)} nodes\n")
print(movie_df.sort_values(by="pagerank", ascending=False).head())
Terminal window
Calculated pageranks for 9724 nodes


    id   pagerank
20  356  0.001155
232 318  0.001099
16  296  0.001075
166 2571 0.001006
34  593  0.000987

Similarly, we can store the PageRank values for the User nodes in a Pandas DataFrame:

user_df = pagerank_df[pagerank_df.index.str.contains("User")]
user_df.index = user_df.index.str.replace("User_", "").astype(int)
user_df = user_df.reset_index(names=["id"])
user_df.sort_values(by="pagerank", ascending=False).head()

Write PageRank values back to Kuzu

To write the values back to Kuzu, first update the node table schemas to include a new property pagerank.

try:
    # Alter original node table schemas to add pageranks
    conn.execute("ALTER TABLE Movie ADD pagerank DOUBLE DEFAULT 0.0;")
    conn.execute("ALTER TABLE User ADD pagerank DOUBLE DEFAULT 0.0;")
except RuntimeError:
    # If the column already exists, do nothing
    pass

Kuzu is able to natively scan Pandas DataFrames in a zero-copy manner, allowing efficient data transfer between the data in Python and Kuzu. The following code snippet shows how this is done for the Movie nodes:

# Copy pagerank values to movie nodes
x = conn.execute(
    """
    LOAD FROM movie_df
    MERGE (m:Movie {movieId: id})
    ON MATCH SET m.pagerank = pagerank
    RETURN m.movieId AS movieId, m.pagerank AS pagerank;
    """
)
Terminal window
   movieId  pagerank
0  1        0.000776
1  3        0.000200
2  6        0.000368
3  47       0.000707
4  50       0.000724

The same can be done for user nodes.

# Copy user pagerank values to user nodes
y = conn.execute(
    """
    LOAD FROM user_df
    MERGE (u:User {userId: id})
    ON MATCH SET u.pagerank = pagerank
    RETURN u.userId AS userId, u.pagerank AS pagerank;
    """
)
Terminal window
   userId  pagerank
0  1      0.000867
1  2      0.000134
2  3      0.000254
3  4      0.000929
4  5      0.000151

Query PageRank values in Kuzu

You can now run a query to print the top 5 Movie nodes ordered by their PageRank values:

res1 = conn.execute(
    """
    MATCH (m:Movie)
    RETURN m.title, m.pagerank
    ORDER BY m.pagerank DESC
    LIMIT 5;
    """
)
print(res1.get_as_df())
Terminal window
     m.title                           m.pagerank
0    Forrest Gump (1994)               0.001155
1    Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)  0.001099
2    Pulp Fiction (1994)               0.001075
3    Matrix, The (1999)                0.001006
4    Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)  0.000987

And similarly, for the User nodes:

res2 = conn.execute(
    """
    MATCH (u:User)
    RETURN u.userId, u.pagerank
    ORDER BY u.pagerank DESC
    LIMIT 5;
    """
)
print(res2.get_as_df())
Terminal window
     u.userId  u.pagerank
0    599       0.016401
1    414       0.014711
2    474       0.014380
3    448       0.012942
4    610       0.008492

Further work

You’ve now seen how to use NetworkX to run algorithms on a Kuzu graph and move data back and forth between Kuzu and Python.

There are numerous additional computations you can perform in NetworkX and store these results in Kuzu. See the tutorial notebook on Google Colab to try it for yourself!