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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)

Paper ID
1913
Venue
PODS
Year
2023
Pagerank
6.223218e-05
Overall Rank
5,425 | 62.79%
DOI
10.1145/3584372.3588662

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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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