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SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store

Summary: Hybrid schema: adjacency in relational tables; vertex/edge attributes in JSON. Gremlin-to-SQL translates queries to SQL, letting mature optimizers beat pure-relational or JSON stores; shows 2–8x faster queries and 10–30x throughput on massive graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h66405a57990ab5c5
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00010074196
Overall Rank
1,608 | 89.23%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2723732

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sun_sigmod15,
        title = {{SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store}},
        author = {Sun, Wen and Fokoue, Achille and Srinivas, Kavitha and Kementsietsidis, Anastasios and Hu, Gang and Xie, Guotong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2723732},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2723732},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,287 LiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans 2020 VLDB 0.00011181449
2,930 Extracting and Analyzing Hidden Graphs from Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 7.8287763e-05
3,123 RisGraph: A Real-Time Streaming System for Evolving Graphs to Support Sub-millisecond Per-update Analysis at Millions Ops/s 2021 SIGMOD 7.6082482e-05
3,132 Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Database Based on Refinable Timestamps 2016 VLDB 7.5979944e-05
3,489 Cosine: A Cloud-Cost Optimized Self-Designing Key-Value Storage Engine 2022 VLDB 7.2421958e-05
3,805 All-in-One: Graph Processing in RDBMSs Revisited 2017 SIGMOD 6.99039e-05
4,006 Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction 2025 CIDR 6.8443562e-05
4,451 GRFusion: Graphs as First-Class Citizens in Main-Memory Relational Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 6.5782534e-05
4,572 GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power 2025 VLDB 6.514625e-05
4,617 G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture 2022 VLDB 6.4848168e-05
4,832 Nanosecond Indexing of Graph Data With Hash Maps and VLists 2019 SIGMOD 6.3836306e-05
5,087 Spruce: A Fast yet Space-saving Structure for Dynamic Graph Storage 2024 SIGMOD 6.2664244e-05
5,844 IBM Db2 Graph: Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2 2020 SIGMOD 5.9557264e-05
6,541 CompressGraph: Efficient Parallel Graph Analytics with Rule-Based Compression 2023 SIGMOD 5.7342253e-05
7,778 Using Domain-Specific Languages For Analytic Graph Databases 2016 VLDB 5.4379421e-05
7,796 A Graph Database for a Virtualized Network Infrastructure 2018 SIGMOD 5.434783e-05
8,638 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.2825944e-05
8,667 Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins 2022 VLDB 5.2770612e-05
9,996 Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment 2025 VLDB 5.0845476e-05
10,024 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.082116e-05
10,116 GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support 2025 SIGMOD 5.0638787e-05
10,168 A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.0559291e-05
10,169 Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ 2025 VLDB 5.0559291e-05
10,227 Synergistic Graph and SQL Analytics Inside IBM Db2 2019 VLDB 5.0447997e-05
10,304 G-View: View Management for Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 5.0294306e-05
10,747 R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,781 TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,594 Connectivity-Oriented Property Graph Partitioning for Distributed Graph Pattern Query Processing 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,203 Answering Why-questions by Exemplars in Attributed Graphs 2019 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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