Dangers of List Processing in Querying Property Graphs
Summary: Analyses list processing in property graphs (Cypher/GQL): enables NP-hard expressions via reduce, beyond optimizer reach; experiments show timeouts on small graphs. Recommends guarded use to preserve usefulness while avoiding intractable queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Amélie Gheerbrant (CNRS; Institute for Fundamental Computer Science Research; Université Paris Cité)
- 2. Leonid Libkin (RelationalAI; University of Edinburgh)
- 3. Alexandra Rogova (Institute for Fundamental Computer Science Research; Université Paris Cité)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gheerbrant_sigmod25,
title = {{Dangers of List Processing in Querying Property Graphs}},
author = {Gheerbrant, Amélie and Libkin, Leonid and Rogova, Alexandra},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3725281},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725281},
year = {2025}
}
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