Transforming Property Graphs

Summary: A declarative property-graph transformation framework based on Graph Pattern Calculus (GPC), capturing data-value effects beyond topology. Conflict detection is PSPACE-complete, with an openCypher implementation showing practical gains over ad-hoc scripts. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13698
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.3058708e-05
Overall Rank: 9,187 | 36.97%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3681972

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Angela Bonifati (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University)
2. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)
3. Yann Ramusat (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bonifati_vldb24,
        title = {{Transforming Property Graphs}},
        author = {Bonifati, Angela and Murlak, Filip and Ramusat, Yann},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2906--2918},
        doi = {10.14778/3681954.3681972},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681972},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,185	Transforming RDF Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas	2024	SIGMOD	5.3058708e-05
10,958	What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,014	GalaxyWeaver: Autonomous Table-to-Graph Conversion and Schema Optimization with Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,064	Property Graph Standards: State of the Art & Open Challenges	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,069	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,301	DTGraph: Declarative Transformations of Property Graphs	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
377	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00019643793
506	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.0001728171
547	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016731552
747	Querying Graph Databases	2013	PODS	0.00014400452
762	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014231163
834	Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes	2006	VLDB	0.00013724553
971	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012875736
1,652	The iBench Integration Metadata Generator	2016	VLDB	0.00010109142
1,836	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	9.6489549e-05
4,140	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	6.8765495e-05
4,768	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	6.5171839e-05
5,425	GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs	2023	PODS	6.223218e-05
5,690	Normalizing Property Graphs	2023	VLDB	6.1205402e-05
7,214	Schema Mappings for Data Graphs	2017	PODS	5.6701187e-05
7,895	Updating Graph Databases with Cypher	2019	VLDB	5.52019e-05
8,459	Static Analysis of Graph Database Transformations	2023	PODS	5.4216353e-05
9,430	A Theory of Regular Queries	2016	PODS	5.2704983e-05

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