DESCRIBE GRAPH - Kinetica Docs

Outputs the configuration of one or more existing graphs.

DESC[RIBE] GRAPH [<schema name>.]<graph name>

DESC[RIBE] GRAPH <schema name>.*

DESC[RIBE] GRAPH *

Parameters

Name of the schema containing the graph(s) to describe

Name of the existing graph for which the configuration will be output

The response to DESCRIBE GRAPH is a multi-column result set.

Output Column	Description
`GRAPH_NAME`	Name of the graph
`GRAPH_SERVER_ID`	ID of the server on which the graph is hosted
`DIRECTED`	Whether the edges of the graph have directionality or are bidirectional
`NUM_NODES`	Number of nodes in the graph
`NUM_EDGES`	Number of edges in the graph
`NUM_BYTES`	Bytes of memory used by the graph
`IS_PERSISTED`	Whether the graph will survive a database restart or not
`IS_SYNC_DB`	Whether the graph is recreated from its source tables upon database startup
`GRAPH_OWNER_USER_NAME`	Name of user who created the graph
`GRAPH_OWNER_RESOURCE_GROUP`	Resource group for the graph; the effective resource group of the graph creator at the time it was created
`RESOURCE_CAPACITY`	Allocated memory limit for this graph
`IS_PARTITIONED`	Whether the graph is distributed across the available graph servers
`HAS_INSERT_TABLE_MONITOR`	Whether the graph has an associated insert table monitor or not
`ORIGINAL_REQUEST`	Request used to create the graph, similar to what is returned by SHOW GRAPH

To show the configuration for a graph, big_cities_graph:

DESCRIBE GRAPH Example

DESCRIBE GRAPH big_cities_graph