Adding Logical Operators to Tree Pattern Queries on Graph-Structured Data

Summary: Generalized tree pattern queries (GTPQs) for graph-structured data, enabling full propositional logic of structural constraints. Efficient evaluation with a compact graph representation, join pruning, and a 3-hop reachability index; experiments show speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h30fcafa7ec2d595a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.4558207e-05
Overall Rank: 7,768 | 47.78%
DOI: 10.14778/2212351.2212355

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Authors

1. Qiang Zeng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2. Xiaorui Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
3. Hai Zhuge (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zeng_vldb12,
        title = {{Adding Logical Operators to Tree Pattern Queries on Graph-Structured Data}},
        author = {Zeng, Qiang and Jiang, Xiaorui and Zhuge, Hai},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {8},
        pages = {728--739},
        doi = {10.14778/2212351.2212355},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2212351.2212355},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,752	Optimal Enumeration: Efficient Top-k Tree Matching	2015	VLDB	5.4595236e-05
10,237	The (Almost) Complete Guide to Tree Pattern Containment	2015	PODS	5.0543689e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00035810622
178	Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching	2002	SIGMOD	0.00026628894
274	3-HOP: A High-Compression Indexing Scheme for Reachability Query	2009	SIGMOD	0.00022490994
288	Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00021969641
294	Efficient Management of Transitive Relationships in Large Data and Knowledge Bases	1989	SIGMOD	0.00021927874
453	Stack-based Algorithms for Pattern Matching on DAGs	2005	VLDB	0.00017972038
783	Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database	2009	VLDB	0.00014021799
1,096	Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012050482
1,148	Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time	2010	VLDB	0.00011809728
1,901	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.4044288e-05
2,733	Efficient Algorithms for Minimizing Tree Pattern Queries	2002	SIGMOD	8.0819e-05
3,233	From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient Evaluation of XQuery	2003	VLDB	7.5033766e-05
4,156	Twig2Stack: Bottom-up Processing of Generalized-Tree-Pattern Queries over XML Documents	2006	VLDB	6.774434e-05
4,383	From Region Encoding To Extended Dewey: On Efficient Processing of XML Twig Pattern Matching	2005	VLDB	6.6261511e-05
5,421	Efficient Processing of XML Twig Queries with OR-Predicates	2004	SIGMOD	6.1361863e-05
6,133	Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries with Constraints	2008	SIGMOD	5.8776885e-05
7,635	Hash-based Subgraph Query Processing Method for Graph-structured XML Documents	2008	VLDB	5.4785904e-05
12,643	Comments on "Stack-based Algorithms for Pattern Matching on DAGs"	2012	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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