Introduction and dataset

Many operations are executed on the whole graph, including the full history. In this section we will look at applying GraphViews which provide a way to look at a subset of this data without having to re-ingest it.

Raphtory can maintain hundreds of thousands of GraphViews in parallel and allows chaining view functions together to create as specific a filter as is required for your use case. A unified API means that all functions that can be called on a graph, node or edge can also be applied to this subset.

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This chapter will continue using the Monkey graph described in the Querying Introduction.