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Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs

Summary: Cypher 9, governed by openCypher Implementers Group, evolves Neo4j property-graph language. Formalizes read queries, ASCII Art pattern matching, and outlines Cypher 10 for compositionality, graph projections, and multi-graph support. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5552
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00016731552
Overall Rank
547 | 96.25%
DOI
10.1145/3183713.3190657

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{francis_sigmod18,
        title = {{Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs}},
        author = {Francis, Nadime and Green, Alastair and Guagliardo, Paolo and Libkin, Leonid and Lindaaker, Tobias and Marsault, Victor and Plantikow, Stefan and Rydberg, Mats and Selmer, Petra and Taylor, Andrés},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3190657},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3190657},
        year = {2018}
}

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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
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0024089429
23 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00054886415
300 GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion 1990 PODS 0.00022046803
312 A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion 1987 SIGMOD 0.00021733819
747 Querying Graph Databases 2013 PODS 0.00014400452
900 G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013337186
910 Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL 2017 CIDR 0.00013285905
1,013 Dynamic Programming Strikes Back 2008 SIGMOD 0.00012652549
1,359 GraphDB: Modeling and Querying Graphs in Databases 1994 VLDB 0.00011040427
3,925 A Formal Semantics of SQL Queries, Its Validation, and Applications 2018 VLDB 7.0140857e-05
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