Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph

Summary: Outlines GSQL's aggregation modeling for graph analytics, detailing expressive scope and evaluation trade-offs. Argues that these design choices generalize to future graph query standards and existing pattern-based declarative languages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5966
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.1903457e-05
Overall Rank: 3,697 | 74.64%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3386144

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Authors

1. Alin Deutsch (TigerGraph; University of California San Diego)
2. Yu Xu (TigerGraph)
3. Mingxi Wu (TigerGraph)
4. Victor E. Lee (TigerGraph)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{deutsch_sigmod20,
        title = {{Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph}},
        author = {Deutsch, Alin and Xu, Yu and Wu, Mingxi and Lee, Victor E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386144},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386144},
        year = {2020}
}

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2,861	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	8.0212883e-05
3,018	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload	2023	VLDB	7.8473755e-05
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5,264	Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs	2024	SIGMOD	6.2947526e-05
5,425	GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs	2023	PODS	6.223218e-05
6,408	CompressGraph: Efficient Parallel Graph Analytics with Rule-Based Compression	2023	SIGMOD	5.8842681e-05
7,603	GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power	2025	VLDB	5.5853593e-05
8,466	TigerVector: Supporting Vector Search in Graph Databases for Advanced RAGs	2025	SIGMOD	5.4188627e-05
9,942	A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework	2025	SIGMOD	5.1915905e-05
10,756	Dangers of List Processing in Querying Property Graphs	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,192	Atom: An Efficient Query Serving System for Embedding-based Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Operator-level Batching	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,677	Vertex-centric Parallel Computation of SQL Queries	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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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
900	G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013337186

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