GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs
Summary: Introduces GPC, a concise Graph Pattern Calculus that captures the full pattern‑matching features of emerging standards GQL and SQL/PGQ, going beyond RPQs/CRPQs to model practical industry patterns. Presents formal syntax, semantics, typing rules and basic properties to enable rigorous theoretical study and comparison of standard-compliant pattern queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Nadime Francis (CNRS; Université Gustave Eiffel)
- 2. Amélie Gheerbrant (CNRS; Université Paris Cité)
- 3. Paolo Guagliardo (University of Edinburgh)
- 4. Leonid Libkin (RelationalAI; University of Edinburgh; École Normale Supérieure)
- 5. Victor Marsault (CNRS; Université Gustave Eiffel)
- 6. Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth)
- 7. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)
- 8. Liat Peterfreund (CNRS; Université Gustave Eiffel)
- 9. Alexandra Rogova (CNRS; INRIA; Université Paris Cité)
- 10. Domagoj Vrgoč (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{francis_pods23,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '23},
title = {{GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584372.3588662},
doi = {10.1145/3584372.3588662},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Francis, Nadime and Gheerbrant, Amélie and Guagliardo, Paolo and Libkin, Leonid and Marsault, Victor and Martens, Wim and Murlak, Filip and Peterfreund, Liat and Rogova, Alexandra and Vrgoč, Domagoj},
year = {2023}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion | 1990 | PODS | 0.00022046803 |
| 312 | A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00021733819 |
| 547 | Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00016731552 |
| 747 | Querying Graph Databases | 2013 | PODS | 0.00014400452 |
| 900 | G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00013337186 |
| 1,575 | Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data | 2010 | PODS | 0.00010318258 |
| 1,836 | Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ | 2022 | SIGMOD | 9.6489549e-05 |
| 3,697 | Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph | 2020 | SIGMOD | 7.1903457e-05 |
| 4,071 | Two-Variable Logic on Data Trees and XML Reasoning | 2006 | PODS | 6.927159e-05 |
| 8,837 | Coping with Incomplete Data: Recent Advances | 2020 | PODS | 5.3596619e-05 |
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