Transforming Property Graphs

Summary: A declarative property-graph transformation framework based on Graph Pattern Calculus (GPC), capturing data-value effects beyond topology. Conflict detection is PSPACE-complete, with an openCypher implementation showing practical gains over ad-hoc scripts. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h98bcbc2509601924
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.1868213e-05
Overall Rank: 9,366 | 37.03%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3681972

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Angela Bonifati (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University)
2. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)
3. Yann Ramusat (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bonifati_vldb24,
        title = {{Transforming Property Graphs}},
        author = {Bonifati, Angela and Murlak, Filip and Ramusat, Yann},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2906--2918},
        doi = {10.14778/3681954.3681972},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681972},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,364	Transforming RDF Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas	2024	SIGMOD	5.1868213e-05
9,804	Property Graph Standards: State of the Art & Open Challenges	2025	VLDB	5.1257999e-05
11,345	What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,380	GalaxyWeaver: Autonomous Table-to-Graph Conversion and Schema Optimization with Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,428	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,620	DTGraph: Declarative Transformations of Property Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
392	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.0001922472
419	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001854669
517	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.00016948466
719	Querying Graph Databases	2013	PODS	0.00014529156
793	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013942384
845	Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes	2006	VLDB	0.00013526977
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
1,494	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	0.00010502195
1,681	The iBench Integration Metadata Generator	2016	VLDB	9.8851118e-05
4,215	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	6.7285738e-05
4,882	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	6.3711076e-05
4,965	GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs	2023	PODS	6.3360914e-05
5,798	Normalizing Property Graphs	2023	VLDB	5.9905343e-05
7,359	Schema Mappings for Data Graphs	2017	PODS	5.5428964e-05
8,060	Updating Graph Databases with Cypher	2019	VLDB	5.3963318e-05
8,625	Static Analysis of Graph Database Transformations	2023	PODS	5.2999883e-05
9,611	A Theory of Regular Queries	2016	PODS	5.1522425e-05

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9	11,620	DTGraph: Declarative Transformations of Property Graphs	2024	VLDB
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