Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale
Summary: GraphRex provides a declarative, Datalog-like interface for large-scale graph queries and compiles them to efficient datacenter executables. It identifies and optimizes a core set of global operators, delivering orders-of-magnitude speedups over prior frameworks across diverse workloads and networks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Qizhen Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Akash Acharya (University of Pennsylvania)
- 3. Hongzhi Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 4. Simran Arora (University of Pennsylvania)
- 5. Ang Chen (Rice University)
- 6. Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
- 7. Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod19,
title = {{Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale}},
author = {Zhang, Qizhen and Acharya, Akash and Chen, Hongzhi and Arora, Simran and Chen, Ang and Liu, Vincent and Loo, Boon Thau},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300064},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300064},
year = {2019}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,519 | G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture | 2022 | VLDB | 6.6472999e-05 |
| 6,203 | Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.9447217e-05 |
| 8,858 | Optimizing Parallel Recursive Datalog Evaluation on Multicore Machines | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.3567857e-05 |
| 10,488 | R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,360 | Templating Shuffles | 2023 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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