# Install libgrape-lite with Homebrew

C++ library for parallel graph processing. Version 0.3.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:libgrape-lite
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libgrape-lite
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:libgrape-lite
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.5
- **Source summary:** C++ library for parallel graph processing
- **Homepage:** <https://alibaba.github.io/libgrape-lite/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alibaba/libgrape-lite>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- run_app (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.3.5
## Project history and usage

libgrape-lite is Alibaba's C++ library form of GRAPE, a parallel graph-processing system built around the PIE programming model. It exists to let developers adapt sequential graph algorithms with relatively small changes and run them across large graph data.

### Project history

The repository README ties libgrape-lite to GRAPE, the Graph Parallel Processing Engine described in SIGMOD and VLDB work from 2017. The project presents itself as a lightweight, open-source implementation of the GRAPE core rather than a full graph platform.

GraphScope documentation says its analytical engine originated from GRAPE, and that a lightweight version of GRAPE is open-sourced as libgrape-lite. GraphScope extends it with mutable fragments, vineyard support, and service-mode features.

### Adoption history

libgrape-lite's adoption story is mostly inside Alibaba and GraphScope rather than broad end-user CLI use. The README's badge says it enables GraphScope, and GraphScope's glossary calls libgrape-lite a dependency that serves as the analytical engine core.

The v0.1.0 tag points to a 2021-10-29 commit, and subsequent tags through v0.3.5 show a small versioned release series. Homebrew packaging makes the C++/MPI graph library available outside the GraphScope source tree for users who want the lighter standalone component.

### How it is used

Users build libgrape-lite with CMake, a C++11 compiler, MPI, and glog, then run example analytical applications such as single-source shortest path, weakly connected components, PageRank, local clustering coefficient, label propagation, and breadth-first search.

The project also includes LDBC benchmark support, optional GPU graph processing with CUDA and NCCL, and a GNN sampler example, so the package is most relevant to graph analytics researchers and infrastructure developers.

### Why package nerds care

The package is niche but interesting because it is a standalone slice of a larger graph-computing platform. Packaging libgrape-lite separately lets users experiment with GRAPE-style graph analytics without installing all of GraphScope.

Its dependency profile is very package-manager-shaped: C++11, MPI, glog, optional jemalloc, optional CUDA/NCCL, and benchmark/examples. That makes it a small formula with heavyweight ecosystem implications.

### Timeline

- 2017: GRAPE publications appeared at SIGMOD and VLDB, with the README citing Best Paper and Best Demo awards.
- 2021-10-29: The v0.1.0 tag points to a commit from this date.
- 2021: GraphScope was presented in VLDB and open sourced, with its analytical engine tied to GRAPE.
- 2026-07-01: The batch input listed Homebrew packaging for standalone libgrape-lite.

### Related projects

- GraphScope is the larger graph-computing system whose analytical engine builds on GRAPE/libgrape-lite.
- Vineyard is named by GraphScope documentation as an extension point around the analytical engine.
- LDBC Graphalytics, CUDA, NCCL, MPICH, OpenMPI, glog, and GraphScope's GRAPE-JDK appear in the project's documented ecosystem.

### Sources

- <https://alibaba.github.io/libgrape-lite>
- <https://github.com/alibaba/GraphScope/blob/main/analytical_engine/README.md>
- <https://github.com/alibaba/GraphScope/blob/main/docs/overview/glossary.md>
- <https://github.com/alibaba/libgrape-lite>
- <https://github.com/alibaba/libgrape-lite/blob/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- library-like package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/libgrape-lite.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/libgrape-lite.yml)


## Sources

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