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: 13259
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.8546368e-05
Overall Rank: 7,021 | 51.21%
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
7,712	GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power	2025	VLDB	4.6667433e-05
8,271	Adaptive Factorization Using Linear-Chained Hash Tables	2025	CIDR	4.539672e-05
9,744	GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support	2025	SIGMOD	4.2856385e-05
9,793	Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ	2025	VLDB	4.2777144e-05
10,495	Finding Logic Bugs in Graph-processing Systems via Graph-cutting	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,997	Towards a Converged Relational-Graph Optimization Framework	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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	0.00036529607
417	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023734582
530	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload	2015	SIGMOD	0.00020823189
964	G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014967208
1,621	Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011105663
1,665	The More the Merrier: Efficient Multi-Source Graph Traversal	2015	VLDB	0.00010958779
2,070	Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases	2022	VLDB	9.6331032e-05
2,504	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	8.629969e-05
2,533	Velox: Meta’s Unified Execution Engine	2022	VLDB	8.5870599e-05
3,310	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	7.2370328e-05
3,670	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload	2023	VLDB	6.8557811e-05
3,706	Every Row Counts: Combining Sketches and Sampling for Accurate Group-By Result Estimates	2019	CIDR	6.8232992e-05
4,257	Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries	2015	VLDB	6.3050642e-05
6,450	DuckDB-Wasm: Fast Analytical Processing for the Web	2022	VLDB	5.0523138e-05
8,257	DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS	2023	CIDR	4.5437589e-05

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