  The Maven Central Repository provides an extraordinary source of data to
understand complex architecture and evolution phenomena among Java
applications. As of September 6, 2018, this repository includes 2.8M artifacts
(compiled piece of code implemented in a JVM-based language), each of which is
characterized with metadata such as exact version, date of upload and list of
dependencies towards other artifacts.
  Today, one who wants to analyze the complete ecosystem of Maven artifacts and
their dependencies faces two key challenges: (i) this is a huge data set; and
(ii) dependency relationships among artifacts are not modeled explicitly and
cannot be queried. In this paper, we present the Maven Dependency Graph. This
open source data set provides two contributions: a snapshot of the whole Maven
Central taken on September 6, 2018, stored in a graph database in which we
explicitly model all dependencies; an open source infrastructure to query this
huge dataset.
