For those who are interested in the technical details, this blog post by Yucheng Low explains the architecture of SFrame very well: http://blog.dato.com/data-processing-architecture-of-graphla...

Yes, SFrame is a subset of GraphLab Create. SFrame provides the core data structures to work with tabular and graph data at scale on a single machine. In addition, using GraphLab Create allows you to create/use/evaluate machine learning models.

Here is some user guide to get you started: https://dato.com/learn/userguide/sframe/introduction.html Just replace "import graphlab" with "import sframe".