Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs
Summary: Explores graph databases and knowledge graphs as the dominant paradigm for knowledge representation. Provides a conceptual map of core data management tasks with emphasis on graph data models and query languages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Marcelo Arenas (IMFD Chile; Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 2. Claudio Gutierrez (IMFD Chile; University of Chile)
- 3. Juan F. Sequeda (data.world)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{arenas_sigmod21,
title = {{Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs}},
author = {Arenas, Marcelo and Gutierrez, Claudio and Sequeda, Juan F.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457545},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457545},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,936 | Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations | 2024 | VLDB | 6.9162836e-05 |
| 7,406 | Galaxybase: A High Performance Native Distributed Graph Database for HTAP | 2024 | VLDB | 5.5349794e-05 |
| 8,180 | Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges | 2023 | VLDB | 5.3820899e-05 |
| 9,804 | Property Graph Standards: State of the Art & Open Challenges | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1257999e-05 |
| 11,033 | An Extended Tutorial and Vocabulary for Relational Language Design in an Era of AI-Assisted Query Generation | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,380 | GalaxyWeaver: Autonomous Table-to-Graph Conversion and Schema Optimization with Large Language Models | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 419 | Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.0001854669 |
| 679 | Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00014837097 |
| 719 | Querying Graph Databases | 2013 | PODS | 0.00014529156 |
| 739 | PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00014333298 |
| 794 | On the Complexity of Bounded-Variable Queries | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013941847 |
| 860 | G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00013406849 |
| 3,125 | The O2 Object-Oriented Database System | 1992 | SIGMOD | 7.6223061e-05 |
| 3,538 | Efficient Logspace Classes for Enumeration, Counting, and Uniform Generation | 2019 | PODS | 7.2214371e-05 |
| 3,690 | Fair Near Neighbor Search: Independent Range Sampling in High Dimensions | 2020 | PODS | 7.0936701e-05 |
| 3,789 | Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery on Large Directed Graphs | 2020 | SIGMOD | 7.0191274e-05 |
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