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Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs

Summary: Subgraph matching on billion-node graphs with a distributed-memory store. A novel algorithm avoids super-linear indices, relying on efficient graph exploration and massive parallelism for scalable query processing; experiments demonstrate web-scale feasibility. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h259412f50c3f0677
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00018235529
Overall Rank
440 | 97.06%
DOI
10.14778/2311906.2311907

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BibTeX Citation

@article{sun_vldb12,
        title = {{Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs}},
        author = {Sun, Zhao and Wang, Hongzhi and Wang, Haixun and Shao, Bin and Li, Jianzhong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {9},
        pages = {788},
        doi = {10.14778/2311906.2311907},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2311906.2311907},
        year = {2012}
}

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446 Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018135272
485 TurboISO: Towards UltraFast and Robust Subgraph Isomorphism Search in Large Graph Databases 2013 SIGMOD 0.00017479773
658 Efficient Subgraph Matching by Postponing Cartesian Products 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015032442
952 Efficient Subgraph Matching: Harmonizing Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Matching Order, and Failing Set Together 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012878316
1,031 GraMI: Frequent Subgraph and Pattern Mining in a Single Large Graph 2014 VLDB 0.00012379698
1,046 Parallel Subgraph Listing in a Large-Scale Graph 2014 SIGMOD 0.00012315969
1,090 CECI: Compact Embedding Cluster Index for Scalable Subgraph Matching 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012062682
1,171 In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011677799
1,253 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011316982
1,417 A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data 2013 VLDB 0.00010706533
1,502 Exploiting Vertex Relationships in Speeding up Subgraph Isomorphism over Large Graphs 2015 VLDB 0.00010431532
1,565 Scalable Subgraph Enumeration in MapReduce 2015 VLDB 0.00010185615
2,023 Scalable Distributed Subgraph Enumeration 2017 VLDB 9.1568397e-05
2,072 Truss Decomposition of Probabilistic Graphs: Semantics and Algorithms 2016 SIGMOD 9.0668141e-05
2,251 NeMa: Fast Graph Search with Label Similarity 2013 VLDB 8.7460227e-05
2,894 Functional Dependencies for Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 7.8870146e-05
3,329 Keys for Graphs 2015 VLDB 7.4086832e-05
3,506 Performance and Scalability of Indexed Subgraph Query Processing Methods 2015 VLDB 7.2286203e-05
3,612 Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases 2012 VLDB 7.1436297e-05
3,771 Multi-Query Optimization for Subgraph Isomorphism Search 2017 VLDB 7.0132957e-05
3,885 Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow 2019 VLDB 6.9282318e-05
3,976 A1: A Distributed In-Memory Graph Database 2020 SIGMOD 6.872794e-05
4,099 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Study of Subgraph Matching: Trends, Unbiasedness, and Interaction 2024 SIGMOD 6.7940875e-05
4,103 Natural Language Question Answering over RDF — A Graph Data Driven Approach 2014 SIGMOD 6.792391e-05
4,133 HUGE: An Efficient and Scalable Subgraph Enumeration System 2021 SIGMOD 6.7738028e-05
4,601 Event Pattern Matching over Graph Streams 2015 VLDB 6.4964963e-05
5,045 Privacy Preserving Subgraph Matching on Large Graphs in Cloud 2016 SIGMOD 6.2887092e-05
5,486 Diversified Top-k Subgraph Querying in a Large Graph 2016 SIGMOD 6.097643e-05
5,676 Subgraph Matching over Graph Federation 2022 VLDB 6.0246247e-05
5,960 Managing and Mining Large Graphs: Systems and Implementations 2012 SIGMOD 5.9159675e-05
6,147 DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication 2015 VLDB 5.8560255e-05
6,210 StreamWorks - A system for Dynamic Graph Search 2013 SIGMOD 5.8317155e-05
6,245 Efficient Exact Subgraph Matching via GNN-based Path Dominance Embedding 2024 VLDB 5.8210521e-05
6,272 SUFF: Accelerating Subgraph Matching with Historical Data 2023 VLDB 5.8112899e-05
6,734 G-SQL: Fast Query Processing via Graph Exploration 2016 VLDB 5.6786954e-05
7,502 Extending Graph Patterns with Conditions 2020 SIGMOD 5.4943054e-05
8,021 Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities 2016 VLDB 5.3890522e-05
8,313 Capturing Associations in Graphs 2020 VLDB 5.3410298e-05
8,567 GC: A Graph Caching System for Subgraph/Supergraph Queries 2018 VLDB 5.2994563e-05
8,706 RBench: Application-Specific RDF Benchmarking 2015 SIGMOD 5.2706868e-05
8,899 Subgraph Matching: A New Decomposition Based Approach 2025 VLDB 5.2401722e-05
9,421 Behavior Query Discovery in System-Generated Temporal Graphs 2016 VLDB 5.1672232e-05
9,453 Minimum Vertex Augmentation 2021 VLDB 5.1608635e-05
9,684 gSWORD: GPU-accelerated Sampling for Subgraph Counting 2024 SIGMOD 5.1258854e-05
9,695 Parallel Query Processing: To Separate Communication from Computation 2022 SIGMOD 5.1258854e-05
9,837 NeuSO: Neural Optimizer for Subgraph Queries 2026 SIGMOD 5.1064323e-05
10,241 Sage: Parallel Semi-Asymmetric Graph Algorithms for NVRAMs 2020 VLDB 5.041918e-05
10,281 Towards the Scheduling of Vertex-constrained Multi Subgraph Matching Query 2020 SIGMOD 5.0334833e-05
10,289 A Comprehensive Survey of Subgraph Matching: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 5.031399e-05
10,379 Algebraic Subgraph Counting 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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