What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases

Summary: Embeds DAGs and structural eqns as first-class constructs in property-graph DBs, adding causality-aware query semantics to declaratively express interventions and counterfactuals. Prototype shows scalable causal queries and DAG manipulation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14021
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,722 | 25.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749671

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10,849	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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47	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069691761
97	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00050863077
1,119	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.00013851012
1,454	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011921443
1,782	PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	0.00010557905
2,504	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	8.629969e-05
3,310	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	7.2370328e-05
5,617	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4085897e-05
5,672	Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs	2024	SIGMOD	5.3796057e-05
6,445	Causal Data Integration	2023	VLDB	5.0539192e-05
7,172	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	4.8068645e-05
8,415	ZaliQL: Causal Inference from Observational Data at Scale	2017	VLDB	4.5129935e-05
9,038	Transforming Property Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.3997447e-05
9,154	PG-Triggers: Triggers for Property Graphs	2024	SIGMOD	4.380727e-05

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