IBM Db2 Graph: Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2

Summary: IBM Db2 Graph is an in-DBMS graph query layer enabling synergistic graph and SQL analytics in Db2. A graph overlay exposes a view over relational data and retrofits queries without data movement, with compile-time and runtime optimizations for analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5960
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.1090232e-05
Overall Rank: 5,721 | 60.75%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3386138

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Authors

1. Yuanyuan Tian (IBM)
2. En Liang Xu (IBM)
3. Wei Zhao (IBM)
4. Mir Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
5. Sui Jun Tong (IBM)
6. Wen Sun (IBM)
7. Thomas Kolanko (IBM)
8. Md. Shahidul Haque Apu (IBM)
9. Huijuan Peng (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tian_sigmod20,
        title = {{IBM Db2 Graph: Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2}},
        author = {Tian, Yuanyuan and Xu, En Liang and Zhao, Wei and Pirahesh, Mir Hamid and Tong, Sui Jun and Sun, Wen and Kolanko, Thomas and Apu, Md. Shahidul Haque and Peng, Huijuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386138},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386138},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,357	Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	7.4904874e-05
8,376	GRainDB: A Relational-core Graph-Relational DBMS	2022	CIDR	5.4389021e-05
8,468	Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins	2022	VLDB	5.418656e-05
9,942	A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework	2025	SIGMOD	5.1915905e-05
9,944	Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ	2025	VLDB	5.1915905e-05
10,526	TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
20	Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	0.00056944564
182	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00026367971
547	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016731552
759	The case against specialized graph analytics engines	2015	CIDR	0.00014273591
900	G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013337186
1,591	SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store	2015	SIGMOD	0.00010255536
2,854	Extracting and Analyzing Hidden Graphs from Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	8.0350257e-05
3,872	All-in-One: Graph Processing in RDBMSs Revisited	2017	SIGMOD	7.0580243e-05
4,025	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.947875e-05
4,340	GRFusion: Graphs as First-Class Citizens in Main-Memory Relational Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	6.7539375e-05
10,007	Synergistic Graph and SQL Analytics Inside IBM Db2	2019	VLDB	5.1801625e-05

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