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A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data

Summary: Trinity.RDF, a distributed, in-memory graph engine for web-scale RDF data, stores RDF natively as graphs rather than as triples or bitmap matrices. Delivers orders-of-magnitude SPARQL speedups over state-of-the-art systems and supports general graph operations (random walks, reachability, community discovery) on RDF graphs, validated on real web-scale data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10881
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00010949523
Overall Rank
1,387 | 90.49%
DOI
10.14778/2535570.2488333

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zeng_vldb13,
        title = {{A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data}},
        author = {Zeng, Kai and Yang, Jiacheng and Wang, Haixun and Shao, Bin and Wang, Zhongyuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {4},
        pages = {265--276},
        doi = {10.14778/2535570.2488333},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535570.2488333},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 25 of 25 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
436 Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018504439
809 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00013874588
1,246 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011504088
2,182 TurboFlux: A Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching System for Streaming Graph Data 2018 SIGMOD 9.010121e-05
2,287 TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing 2014 SIGMOD 8.8034872e-05
3,008 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.8578871e-05
3,699 KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases 2017 VLDB 7.1882315e-05
4,748 Taming Subgraph Isomorphism for RDF Query Processing 2015 VLDB 6.5251089e-05
4,787 Systems for Big-Graphs 2014 VLDB 6.5079377e-05
5,716 Graph-Aware, Workload-Adaptive SPARQL Query Caching 2015 SIGMOD 6.1100964e-05
5,878 Distributed Graph Simulation: Impossibility and Possibility 2014 VLDB 6.0539311e-05
6,029 DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication 2015 VLDB 6.0014798e-05
6,258 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.939696e-05
7,489 H2 RDF+: An Efficient Data Management System for Big RDF Graphs 2014 SIGMOD 5.6064127e-05
7,769 G-SQL: Fast Query Processing via Graph Exploration 2016 VLDB 5.5474529e-05
7,798 A Survey and Experimental Comparison of Distributed SPARQL Engines for Very Large RDF Data 2017 VLDB 5.542286e-05
9,532 Banyan: A Scoped Dataflow Engine for Graph Query Service 2022 VLDB 5.2537948e-05
10,052 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.1685424e-05
10,988 Pistis: A Decentralized Knowledge Graph Platform Enabling Ownership-Preserving SPARQL Querying 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,351 VeriDKG: A Verifiable SPARQL Query Engine for Decentralized Knowledge Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,846 Helios: An Adaptive and Query Workload-driven Partitioning Framework for Distributed Graph Stores 2019 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,944 Stylus: A Strongly-Typed Store for Serving Massive RDF Data 2018 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,958 Lusail: A System for Querying Linked Data at Scale 2018 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,130 Evaluating SPARQL Queries on Massive RDF Datasets 2015 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,182 An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data 2014 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012250108
294 Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00022253507
442 Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs 2012 VLDB 0.00018398144
500 Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs 2011 VLDB 0.00017413839
542 Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management 2008 VLDB 0.00016838296
776 Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database 2009 VLDB 0.00014110016
859 An Efficient SQL-based RDF Querying Scheme 2005 VLDB 0.00013561886
908 Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding 2012 SIGMOD 0.00013300624
944 RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF 2008 VLDB 0.00013067088
1,803 Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs 2012 SIGMOD 9.724402e-05
1,979 Scalable Join Processing on Very Large RDF Graphs 2009 SIGMOD 9.3621296e-05
4,282 Mining Top-K Large Structural Patterns in a Massive Network 2011 VLDB 6.7842201e-05
5,833 Managing and Mining Large Graphs: Systems and Implementations 2012 SIGMOD 6.072775e-05
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