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A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data

Summary: Trinity.RDF, a distributed, in-memory graph engine for web-scale RDF data, stores RDF natively as graphs rather than as triples or bitmap matrices. Delivers orders-of-magnitude SPARQL speedups over state-of-the-art systems and supports general graph operations (random walks, reachability, community discovery) on RDF graphs, validated on real web-scale data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h5fe5f8688e660396
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00010742208
Overall Rank
1,410 | 90.53%
DOI
10.14778/2535570.2488333

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zeng_vldb13,
        title = {{A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data}},
        author = {Zeng, Kai and Yang, Jiacheng and Wang, Haixun and Shao, Bin and Wang, Zhongyuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {4},
        pages = {265--276},
        doi = {10.14778/2535570.2488333},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535570.2488333},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 25 of 25 citing papers.

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444 Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018177351
712 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00014578373
1,249 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011340141
2,211 TurboFlux: A Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching System for Streaming Graph Data 2018 SIGMOD 8.8237249e-05
2,340 TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing 2014 SIGMOD 8.6071228e-05
3,066 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.6877117e-05
3,768 KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases 2017 VLDB 7.0303995e-05
4,817 Taming Subgraph Isomorphism for RDF Query Processing 2015 VLDB 6.3985024e-05
4,897 Systems for Big-Graphs 2014 VLDB 6.3660362e-05
5,844 Graph-Aware, Workload-Adaptive SPARQL Query Caching 2015 SIGMOD 5.9730023e-05
5,953 Distributed Graph Simulation: Impossibility and Possibility 2014 VLDB 5.9359492e-05
6,150 DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication 2015 VLDB 5.8701541e-05
6,334 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.810781e-05
6,713 G-SQL: Fast Query Processing via Graph Exploration 2016 VLDB 5.7002243e-05
7,518 A Survey and Experimental Comparison of Distributed SPARQL Engines for Very Large RDF Data 2017 VLDB 5.5041158e-05
7,607 H2 RDF+: An Efficient Data Management System for Big RDF Graphs 2014 SIGMOD 5.484962e-05
9,715 Banyan: A Scoped Dataflow Engine for Graph Query Service 2022 VLDB 5.1359137e-05
10,247 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0525742e-05
11,366 Pistis: A Decentralized Knowledge Graph Platform Enabling Ownership-Preserving SPARQL Querying 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,669 VeriDKG: A Verifiable SPARQL Query Engine for Decentralized Knowledge Graphs 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,146 Helios: An Adaptive and Query Workload-driven Partitioning Framework for Distributed Graph Stores 2019 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,243 Stylus: A Strongly-Typed Store for Serving Massive RDF Data 2018 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,256 Lusail: A System for Querying Linked Data at Scale 2018 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,423 Evaluating SPARQL Queries on Massive RDF Datasets 2015 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,473 An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data 2014 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012092602
288 Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00021969641
443 Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs 2012 VLDB 0.00018197688
511 Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs 2011 VLDB 0.00017061883
557 Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management 2008 VLDB 0.00016497067
783 Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database 2009 VLDB 0.00014021799
882 An Efficient SQL-based RDF Querying Scheme 2005 VLDB 0.0001327793
934 Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding 2012 SIGMOD 0.0001300429
954 RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF 2008 VLDB 0.00012867202
1,840 Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs 2012 SIGMOD 9.5291859e-05
2,026 Scalable Join Processing on Very Large RDF Graphs 2009 SIGMOD 9.1624074e-05
4,350 Mining Top-K Large Structural Patterns in a Massive Network 2011 VLDB 6.645396e-05
5,950 Managing and Mining Large Graphs: Systems and Implementations 2012 SIGMOD 5.9367371e-05
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