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Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ

Summary: GPML: shared graph pattern-matching sub-language underpinning both GQL and SQL/PGQ. WG3 and LDBC analyze the standardization design process and present the key GPML elements plus a path to formal semantics ahead of publication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6434
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2022
Pagerank
8.629969e-05
Overall Rank
2,504 | 82.60%
DOI
10.1145/3514221.3526057

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1,782 PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 0.00010557905
3,670 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload 2023 VLDB 6.8557811e-05
5,527 Representing Paths in Graph Database Pattern Matching 2023 VLDB 5.4573655e-05
5,537 Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta 2023 SIGMOD 5.453017e-05
5,663 GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs 2023 PODS 5.3853781e-05
5,672 Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 5.3796057e-05
5,915 Runtime-Extensible Parsers 2025 CIDR 5.2696476e-05
6,303 Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 5.1165121e-05
6,781 SQL Nulls and Two-Valued Logic 2023 PODS 4.9227317e-05
6,863 Declarative Sub-Operators for Universal Data Processing 2023 VLDB 4.9003859e-05
6,899 Containment of Graph Queries Modulo Schema 2024 PODS 4.8878659e-05
7,021 DuckPGQ: Bringing SQL/PGQ to DuckDB 2023 VLDB 4.8546368e-05
7,712 GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power 2025 VLDB 4.6667433e-05
8,257 DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS 2023 CIDR 4.5437589e-05
8,480 Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data 2024 VLDB 4.4967501e-05
8,746 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
8,803 Conjunctive Regular Path Queries under Injective Semantics 2023 PODS 4.4426077e-05
8,827 The Complexity of Regular Trail and Simple Path Queries on Undirected Graphs 2022 PODS 4.4369334e-05
8,947 Towards Theory for Real-World Data 2022 PODS 4.4216375e-05
9,038 Transforming Property Graphs 2024 VLDB 4.3997447e-05
9,556 Materialized View Selection & View-Based Query Planning for Regular Path Queries 2024 SIGMOD 4.3212967e-05
9,676 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.3006524e-05
9,743 Output-Sensitive Evaluation of Regular Path Queries 2025 PODS 4.2856385e-05
9,793 Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ 2025 VLDB 4.2777144e-05
9,845 Path-centric Cardinality Estimation for Subgraph Matching 2025 VLDB 4.2680295e-05
9,940 Worst-Case-Optimal Similarity Joins on Graph Databases 2024 SIGMOD 4.241573e-05
10,199 R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,235 Repairing Property Graphs under PG-Constraints 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,487 Dangers of List Processing in Querying Property Graphs 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,581 G-View: View Management for Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,722 What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,769 TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,808 GraphAr: An Efficient Storage Scheme for Graph Data in Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,849 Versatile Property Graph Transformations 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,987 Connectivity-Oriented Property Graph Partitioning for Distributed Graph Pattern Query Processing 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,079 KGFabric: A Scalable Knowledge Graph Warehouse for Enterprise Data Interconnection 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,328 Data Path Queries over Embedded Graph Databases 2022 PODS 4.1905499e-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
364 A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion 1987 SIGMOD 0.00025657601
787 Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs 2018 SIGMOD 0.00016624372
964 G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages 2018 SIGMOD 0.00014967208
1,040 Querying Graph Databases 2013 PODS 0.00014483577
1,445 Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases 1989 VLDB 0.00011937596
1,812 Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data 2010 PODS 0.00010458164
2,345 Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries 1999 PODS 8.9933611e-05
3,310 PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 7.2370328e-05
4,187 Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph 2020 SIGMOD 6.3700415e-05
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