11.1.3 Memory Consumption by the Graph Server (PGX)
The graph server (PGX) loads the graph into main memory in order to carry out analysis on the graph and its properties.
The memory consumed by the graph server for a graph is split between the memory to store the topology of the graph (the information to indicate what are the vertices and edges in the graph without their attached properties), and the memory for the properties attached to the vertices and edges. Internally, the graph server (PGX) stores the graph topology in compressed sparse row (CSR) format, a data structure which has minimal memory footprint while providing very fast read access.