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://stackoverflow.com/questions/31321009/best-more-standard-graph-representation-file-format-graphson-gexf-graphml/79467334#79467334