Source: cirosantilli/bvgraph
= BVGraph
The native file format of <WebGraph (software)>.
It is a binary format and highly storage efficient.
It is for example what <Common Crawl web graph> currently dumps to as of 2025, see e.g.: https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2024-25-dec-jan-feb/index.html
TODO meaning of "BV"?
A quick hands-on introduction to the format by <Ciro Santilli> can be found at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/198