DuckPGQ: Bringing SQL/PGQ to DuckDB

Summary: Brings ISO SQL/PGQ to DuckDB via DuckPGQ, an extension that injects pattern‑matching/path operators, types, parsers and optimizer rules to execute graph queries within SQL plans. Details underlying data structures/algorithms and a roadmap for optimal joins, parallelism, and GNNs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13258
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.8551607e-05
Overall Rank: 7,033 | 51.08%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611614

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,713	GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power	2025	VLDB	4.6712228e-05
8,275	Adaptive Factorization Using Linear-Chained Hash Tables	2025	CIDR	4.5439841e-05
9,745	GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support	2025	SIGMOD	4.2897489e-05
9,790	Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ	2025	VLDB	4.2818172e-05
10,485	Finding Logic Bugs in Graph-processing Systems via Graph-cutting	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,994	Towards a Converged Relational-Graph Optimization Framework	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
185	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00036538405
418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
536	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload	2015	SIGMOD	0.00020722862
964	G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001497475
1,619	Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011111678
1,665	The More the Merrier: Efficient Multi-Source Graph Traversal	2015	VLDB	0.00010967716
2,064	Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases	2022	VLDB	9.6418929e-05
2,505	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	8.634551e-05
2,528	Velox: Meta’s Unified Execution Engine	2022	VLDB	8.59454e-05
3,306	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	7.2437997e-05
3,668	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload	2023	VLDB	6.8591612e-05
3,702	Every Row Counts: Combining Sketches and Sampling for Accurate Group-By Result Estimates	2019	CIDR	6.8295759e-05
4,262	Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries	2015	VLDB	6.3117226e-05
6,455	DuckDB-Wasm: Fast Analytical Processing for the Web	2022	VLDB	5.0569626e-05
8,276	DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS	2023	CIDR	4.5439811e-05

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