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Circinus: Fast Redundancy-Reduced Subgraph Matching
Summary: Circinus introduces compression-based backtracking to enable computation sharing and cut repeated work in Ullmann-style subgraph matching. Extensive experiments report orders-of-magnitude speedups on standard subgraph matching benchmarks.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6516
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 5.4730826e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,502 | 61.77%
- DOI
-
10.1145/3588692
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Pagerank |
| 5,968 |
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2024 |
SIGMOD |
5.2469955e-05 |
| 7,456 |
BSX : Subgraph Matching with Batch Backtracking Search |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.7205339e-05 |
| 7,936 |
Fast Local Subgraph Counting |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.6089395e-05 |
| 9,729 |
TC-Match: Fast Time-constrained Continuous Subgraph Matching |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.2901665e-05 |
| 9,936 |
Fast Maximum Common Subgraph Search: A Redundancy-Reduced Backtracking Approach |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.2441896e-05 |
| 10,014 |
BEE: Towards Redundancy Reduction via Block-Separator Decomposition for Subgraph Matching |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,096 |
NeuSO: Neural Optimizer for Subgraph Queries |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,131 |
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2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,264 |
CEMR: An Effective Subgraph Matching Algorithm with Redundant Extension Elimination |
2026 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,270 |
Characterizing Parallel Subgraph Matching Performance: A Systematic Study of Interactions, Scalability, and Enumeration |
2026 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,276 |
gMatch: Fine-Grained and Hardware-Efficient Subgraph Matching on GPUs |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,304 |
Aquila: A High-Concurrency System for Incremental Graph Query |
2026 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,523 |
cuMatch: A GPU-based Memory-Efficient Worst-case Optimal Join Processing Method for Subgraph Queries with Complex Patterns |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,715 |
Accelerating Subgraph Matching through Fine-grained and Powerful Equivalences |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,740 |
Subgraph Matching: A New Decomposition Based Approach |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,982 |
Atom: An Efficient Query Serving System for Embedding-based Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Operator-level Batching |
2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
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| 202 |
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| 327 |
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VLDB |
0.00027312381 |
| 460 |
Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases |
2008 |
SIGMOD |
0.00022679846 |
| 502 |
On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks |
2010 |
VLDB |
0.00021528261 |
| 616 |
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2008 |
VLDB |
0.00019068362 |
| 749 |
TurboISO: Towards UltraFast and Robust Subgraph Isomorphism Search in Large Graph Databases |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
0.00017193776 |
| 1,125 |
Efficient Subgraph Matching by Postponing Cartesian Products |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00013829006 |
| 1,334 |
Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00012543633 |
| 1,522 |
Efficient Subgraph Matching: Harmonizing Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Matching Order, and Failing Set Together |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001152219 |
| 1,715 |
CECI: Compact Embedding Cluster Index for Scalable Subgraph Matching |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010776518 |
| 1,746 |
Graphflow: An Active Graph Database |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001069135 |
| 1,906 |
In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010135267 |
| 1,948 |
Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows |
2018 |
VLDB |
9.9938634e-05 |
| 2,021 |
Exploiting Vertex Relationships in Speeding up Subgraph Isomorphism over Large Graphs |
2015 |
VLDB |
9.7730473e-05 |
| 2,787 |
Scalable Distributed Subgraph Enumeration |
2017 |
VLDB |
8.1219297e-05 |
| 2,933 |
Pangolin: An Efficient and Flexible Graph Mining System on CPU and GPU |
2020 |
VLDB |
7.8633648e-05 |
| 2,963 |
Subgraph Matching: on Compression and Computation |
2018 |
VLDB |
7.8061004e-05 |
| 3,119 |
Versatile Equivalences: Speeding up Subgraph Query Processing and Subgraph Matching |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
7.5393376e-05 |
| 3,135 |
Fractal: A General-Purpose Graph Pattern Mining System |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
7.4928743e-05 |
| 3,488 |
GPU-Accelerated Subgraph Enumeration on Partitioned Graphs |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
7.0460627e-05 |
| 3,818 |
High-Performance Dynamic Pattern Matching over Disordered Streams |
2010 |
VLDB |
6.7279318e-05 |
| 5,002 |
HUGE: An Efficient and Scalable Subgraph Enumeration System |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
5.7610359e-05 |
| 5,625 |
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2020 |
SIGMOD |
5.4048567e-05 |
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