SCARAB: Scaling Reachability Computation on Large Graphs

Summary: SCARAB: scalable reachability framework for graphs with tens of millions of vertices/edges. Unified approach to scale state-of-the-art indices and speed up online queries; demonstrates orders-of-magnitude improvement over GRAIL on large-scale graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4521
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.5046522e-05
Overall Rank: 3,127 | 78.25%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,777	Reachability Queries on Large Dynamic Graphs: A Total Order Approach	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010589591
1,880	TF-Label: a Topological-Folding Labeling Scheme for Reachability Querying in a Large Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00010226347
2,098	Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank	2013	SIGMOD	9.5480012e-05
2,756	K-Reach: Who is in Your Small World	2012	VLDB	8.1682536e-05
3,213	Landmark Indexing for Evaluation of Label-Constrained Reachability Queries	2017	SIGMOD	7.3669794e-05
3,671	Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reachability Oracle	2013	VLDB	6.8560247e-05
4,478	Reachability Querying: An Independent Permutation Labeling Approach	2014	VLDB	6.1506256e-05
6,795	Answering Billion-Scale Label-Constrained Reachability Queries within Microsecond	2020	VLDB	4.9242446e-05
7,596	DAG Reduction: Fast Answering Reachability Queries	2017	SIGMOD	4.7016964e-05
7,904	Coarsening Massive Influence Networks for Scalable Diffusion Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	4.6214923e-05
9,483	I/O Efficient Label-Constrained Reachability Queries in Large Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.3341665e-05
9,898	Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data	2016	SIGMOD	4.2600049e-05

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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
246	Efficient Management of Transitive Relationships in Large Data and Knowledge Bases	1989	SIGMOD	0.00030949575
279	3-HOP: A High-Compression Indexing Scheme for Reachability Query	2009	SIGMOD	0.00029113513
334	Fast and Practical Indexing and Querying of Very Large Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00027081079
425	Stack-based Algorithms for Pattern Matching on DAGs	2005	VLDB	0.00023598882
733	GRAIL: Scalable Reachability Index for Large Graphs	2010	VLDB	0.00017460741
788	Efficiently Answering Reachability Queries on Very Large Directed Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016650034
1,553	A Memory Efficient Reachability Data Structure Through Bit Vector Compression	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011402871

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1,777	Reachability Queries on Large Dynamic Graphs: A Total Order Approach	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010589591
788	Efficiently Answering Reachability Queries on Very Large Directed Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016650034
5,420	SCARA: Scalable Graph Neural Networks with Feature-Oriented Optimization	2022	VLDB	5.5157743e-05
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