Comparison between GraphFrames and GraphX

It is important to look at a quick comparison between GraphX and GraphFrames as it gives you an idea as to where GraphFrames are going. Joseph Bradley, who is a software Engineer at Databricks, gave a brilliant talk on GraphFrames and the difference between the two APIs. The talk is available at http://bit.ly/2hBrDwH. Here is a summary of the comparison:

	GraphFrames	GraphX
Core APIs	Scala, Java, Python	Scala only
Programming Abstraction	DataFrames	RDDs
Use Cases	Algorithms, Queries, Motif Finding	Algorithms
VertexIds	Any type (in Catalyst)	Long
Vertex/edge attributes	Any number of DataFrame columns	Any type (VD,ED)
Return Types	GraphFrames/DataFrames	Graph [VD,ED] or RDD [Long,VD]

GraphX <=> GraphFrames

If you have invested heavily into GraphX already and are wondering how you will migrate your existing code to GraphFrames, you are about to receive some good news. Apache Spark provides seamless conversions...