A General-Purpose Query-Centric Framework for Querying Big Graphs
Summary: Quegel recasts Pregel-style graph processing as query-centric, on-demand execution for lightweight queries, using superstep sharing to avoid scanning mostly irrelevant vertices. It also supports graph indexes, yielding orders-of-magnitude speedups over graph-parallel systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Da Yan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 2. Yi Lu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 3. James Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 4. M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo)
- 5. John C. S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 6. Qizhen Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 7. Fan Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 8. Wilfred Ng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{yan_vldb16,
title = {{A General-Purpose Query-Centric Framework for Querying Big Graphs}},
author = {Yan, Da and Lu, Yi and Cheng, James and Özsu, M. Tamer and Lui, John C. S. and Zhang, Qizhen and Yang, Fan and Ng, Wilfred},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {7},
pages = {564--575},
doi = {10.14778/2904483.2904488},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2904483.2904488},
year = {2016}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,601 | Systems for Scalable Graph Analytics and Machine Learning: Trends and Methods | 2025 | VLDB | 5.5866563e-05 |
| 9,432 | MITra: A Framework for Multi-Instance Graph Traversal | 2023 | VLDB | 5.2701501e-05 |
| 9,532 | Banyan: A Scoped Dataflow Engine for Graph Query Service | 2022 | VLDB | 5.2537948e-05 |
| 9,704 | Quegel: A General-Purpose System for Querying Big Graphs | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.2351259e-05 |
| 11,208 | Automating Vectorized Distributed Graph Computation | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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