Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases

Summary: Grafil enables substructure similarity search in graphs via indexed, feature-based filtering. Mapping edge relaxation to allowed missing features, it uses a multi-filter of complementary feature sets to prune candidates before comparisons. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3683
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00019887011
Overall Rank: 572 | 96.03%
DOI: -

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279	3-HOP: A High-Compression Indexing Scheme for Reachability Query	2009	SIGMOD	0.00029113513
612	Taming Verification Hardness: An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Subgraph Isomorphism	2008	VLDB	0.0001920234
651	Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs	2012	VLDB	0.00018648572
1,285	Neighborhood Based Fast Graph Search in Large Networks	2011	SIGMOD	0.00012833377
2,409	TreeSpan: Efficiently Computing Similarity All-Matching	2012	SIGMOD	8.8776858e-05
2,428	VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework	2013	CIDR	8.8367608e-05
2,438	Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing	2007	VLDB	8.8214248e-05
2,525	Connected Substructure Similarity Search	2010	SIGMOD	8.5981082e-05
2,870	Streaming Similarity Search over one Billion Tweets using Parallel Locality-Sensitive Hashing	2013	VLDB	7.9799783e-05
2,938	Graph Homomorphism Revisited for Graph Matching	2010	VLDB	7.8524059e-05
3,020	GConnect: A Connectivity Index for Massive Disk-Resident Graphs	2009	VLDB	7.6992238e-05
3,720	iGraph: A Framework for Comparisons of Disk-Based Graph Indexing Techniques	2010	VLDB	6.8192237e-05
3,862	A Partition-Based Approach to Structure Similarity Search	2014	VLDB	6.687769e-05
3,873	Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases	2012	VLDB	6.6779082e-05
6,074	Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search	2019	VLDB	5.2242306e-05
6,080	Answering Top-k Representative Queries on Graph Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.2214553e-05
7,325	Periscope/GQ: A Graph Querying Toolkit	2008	VLDB	4.7616954e-05
8,726	GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases	2010	SIGMOD	4.4593116e-05
9,310	FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents	2006	VLDB	4.3570863e-05
9,575	GARUDA: A System for Large-Scale Mining of Statistically Significant Connected Subgraphs	2016	VLDB	4.325244e-05
9,580	ChiSeL: Graph Similarity Search using Chi-Squared Statistics in Large Probabilistic Graphs	2020	VLDB	4.3234342e-05
9,898	Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data	2016	SIGMOD	4.2600049e-05
9,935	Fast Maximum Common Subgraph Search: A Redundancy-Reduced Backtracking Approach	2025	SIGMOD	4.2482599e-05
11,961	Leveraging Graph Dimensions in Online Graph Search	2015	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
171	Algorithmics and Applications of Tree and Graph Searching	2002	PODS	0.00038830709
203	Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach	2004	SIGMOD	0.00034889335
753	A Platform Based on the Multi-dimensional Data Model for Analysis of Bio-Molecular Structures	2003	VLDB	0.0001719168

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