We do have a concrete plan for k8s-less deployment and we already have an issue [1] to track that. That will be available before the end of March 2021.
To simplify the environment setup process we will release a docker image for end-users, but without docker will be ok as well (requires building from sources).
GraphScope use vineyard [2] as the storage layer for im-memory graph data structures. And current the graph type (aka. ArrowPropertyFragment in GraphScope) uses a set of arrow tables and arrays under the hood.
GraphScope supports a `to_vineyard_dataframe` method on the computation context [3]. We also has a plan for integration between vineyard and dask (may could be delivered in March as well). At that time the interop between dask would be straightforward.
[1]: https://github.com/alibaba/GraphScope/discussions/113
[2]: https://github.com/alibaba/libvineyard
[3]: https://graphscope.io/docs/reference/context.html#graphscope...