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In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study

Summary: Eight in-memory subgraph-matchers are compared in a common framework across filtering, ordering, enumeration, and optimizations. Findings: GraphQL filtering is competitive; RI ordering is strong; DP-iso pruning helps large queries; code available. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5856
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
0.00011545768
Overall Rank
1,237 | 91.52%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3380581

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sun_sigmod20,
        title = {{In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study}},
        author = {Sun, Shixuan and Luo, Qiong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3380581},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3380581},
        year = {2020}
}

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264 The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing 2018 VLDB 0.00022980015
294 Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00022253507
321 Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms: Techniques, Results, and Open Problems 2018 PODS 0.00021283186
352 On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks 2010 VLDB 0.00020375193
431 Taming Verification Hardness: An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Subgraph Isomorphism 2008 VLDB 0.00018577017
442 Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs 2012 VLDB 0.00018398144
485 TurboISO: Towards UltraFast and Robust Subgraph Isomorphism Search in Large Graph Databases 2013 SIGMOD 0.00017717377
490 Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System 2015 SIGMOD 0.000175757
659 Efficient Subgraph Matching by Postponing Cartesian Products 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015214062
809 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00013874588
1,006 Efficient Subgraph Matching: Harmonizing Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Matching Order, and Failing Set Together 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012699518
1,036 Parallel Subgraph Listing in a Large-Scale Graph 2014 SIGMOD 0.00012499878
1,058 Graphflow: An Active Graph Database 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012378784
1,102 CECI: Compact Embedding Cluster Index for Scalable Subgraph Matching 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012166591
1,181 An In-depth Comparison of Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithms in Graph Databases 2013 VLDB 0.0001179597
1,246 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011504088
1,487 Exploiting Vertex Relationships in Speeding up Subgraph Isomorphism over Large Graphs 2015 VLDB 0.00010615297
1,552 Scalable Subgraph Enumeration in MapReduce 2015 VLDB 0.00010379532
2,065 Scalable Distributed Subgraph Enumeration 2017 VLDB 9.2352771e-05
2,112 Speeding Up Set Intersections in Graph Algorithms using SIMD Instructions 2018 SIGMOD 9.1514258e-05
2,119 DUALSIM: Parallel Subgraph Enumeration in a Massive Graph on a Single Machine 2016 SIGMOD 9.141144e-05
2,187 Subgraph Matching: on Compression and Computation 2018 VLDB 8.9966682e-05
3,477 Performance and Scalability of Indexed Subgraph Query Processing Methods 2015 VLDB 7.3791229e-05
3,821 Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow 2019 VLDB 7.0933895e-05
4,025 Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation 2019 VLDB 6.947875e-05
6,728 BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks 2018 SIGMOD 5.7898807e-05
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