DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS

Summary: Adds SQL/PGQ to DuckDB with a compact graph layout and multi-source/-dest path-finding implemented as vectorized UDFs to minimize integration debt. Scaled on large graphs in evals, exposes need for WCOJ and factorized processing research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 491
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.5439811e-05
Overall Rank: 8,276 | 42.43%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,033	DuckPGQ: Bringing SQL/PGQ to DuckDB	2023	VLDB	4.8551607e-05
9,201	F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future	2026	SIGMOD	4.3743539e-05
10,238	TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,736	TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,994	Towards a Converged Relational-Graph Optimization Framework	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
185	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00036538405
418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
735	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00017452467
789	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016634256
853	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask	2018	VLDB	0.00015940507
964	G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001497475
1,259	Aggregation and Ordering in Factorised Databases	2013	VLDB	0.00012995821
2,275	Adopting Worst-Case Optimal Joins in Relational Database Systems	2020	VLDB	9.1262202e-05
2,505	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	8.634551e-05
3,082	FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases	2012	VLDB	7.6014248e-05
4,012	Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	6.5335884e-05
4,191	Efficiently Answering Regular Simple Path Queries on Large Labeled Networks	2019	SIGMOD	6.3735885e-05
6,524	The 3D Hash Join: Building On Non-Unique Join Attributes	2022	CIDR	5.0274964e-05

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