Updating Graph Databases with Cypher
Summary: Reviews Cypher's graph updates, noting relational-analogue features and those that intertwine with queries. Pinpoints atomicity violations and nondeterminism, then describes industry-academia effort that redesigned a streamlined Cypher update set. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Alastair Green
- 2. Paolo Guagliardo
- 3. Leonid Libkin
- 4. Tobias Lindaaker
- 5. Victor Marsault
- 6. Stefan Plantikow
- 7. Martin Schuster
- 8. Petra Selmer
- 9. Hannes Voigt
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,306 | PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.2437997e-05 |
| 8,481 | Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data | 2024 | VLDB | 4.501065e-05 |
| 9,037 | Transforming Property Graphs | 2024 | VLDB | 4.4039656e-05 |
| 10,702 | Shifting Transaction Isolation on Graphs: From Systems to Data | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 331 | The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00027214222 |
| 789 | Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00016634256 |
| 964 | G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.0001497475 |
| 1,057 | Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL | 2017 | CIDR | 0.0001439886 |
| 4,148 | A Formal Semantics of SQL Queries, Its Validation, and Applications | 2018 | VLDB | 6.4079361e-05 |
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