GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases

Summary: Interleaves visual query construction with processing for subgraph matching in graph databases to prune results. Introduces action-aware indexing leveraging user interaction latency to accelerate retrieval, with real and synthetic data evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4299
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.3514928e-05
Overall Rank: 8,884 | 39.05%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807182

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Changjiu Jin (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University)
4. Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
5. James Cheng (Nanyang Technological University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jin_sigmod10,
        title = {{GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases}},
        author = {Jin, Changjiu and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Xiao, Xiaokui and Choi, Byron and Cheng, James},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807182},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807182},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,749	VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework	2013	CIDR	6.5250721e-05
5,519	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.1885644e-05
5,945	GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing	2011	SIGMOD	6.0326529e-05
6,728	BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks	2018	SIGMOD	5.7898807e-05
6,895	QUBLE: Blending Visual Subgraph Query Formulation with Query Processing on Large Networks	2013	SIGMOD	5.7442637e-05
7,845	Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions	2017	SIGMOD	5.5332653e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
177	Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach	2004	SIGMOD	0.00027100548
294	Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00022253507
300	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00022046803
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
322	Fast and Practical Indexing and Querying of Very Large Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021275303
326	FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021152829
431	Taming Verification Hardness: An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Subgraph Isomorphism	2008	VLDB	0.00018577017
591	Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001603683
727	Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph	2007	VLDB	0.00014565738

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1	591	Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases	2005	SIGMOD
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5	11,774	BOOMER: A Tool for Blending Visual P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks	2020	SIGMOD
6	4,853	Efficient Subgraph Search over Large Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB
7	4,372	Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying	2014	VLDB
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9	6,895	QUBLE: Blending Visual Subgraph Query Formulation with Query Processing on Large Networks	2013	SIGMOD
10	5,945	GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing	2011	SIGMOD