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Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs

Summary: Cypher 9, governed by openCypher Implementers Group, evolves Neo4j property-graph language. Formalizes read queries, ASCII Art pattern matching, and outlines Cypher 10 for compositionality, graph projections, and multi-graph support. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha7cf4c66c5d7115b
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.0001854669
Overall Rank
419 | 97.19%
DOI
10.1145/3183713.3190657

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{francis_sigmod18,
        title = {{Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs}},
        author = {Francis, Nadime and Green, Alastair and Guagliardo, Paolo and Libkin, Leonid and Lindaaker, Tobias and Marsault, Victor and Plantikow, Stefan and Rydberg, Mats and Selmer, Petra and Taylor, Andrés},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3190657},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3190657},
        year = {2018}
}

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860 G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013406849
1,482 PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 0.00010538703
1,494 Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010502195
2,774 GraphScope: A Unified Engine For Big Graph Processing 2021 VLDB 8.0327008e-05
2,831 PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 7.9602632e-05
2,938 RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark 2019 SIGMOD 7.8355984e-05
3,204 Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 7.5400217e-05
3,835 Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta 2023 SIGMOD 6.9931698e-05
3,936 Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations 2024 VLDB 6.9162836e-05
4,553 GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power 2025 VLDB 6.5393335e-05
4,874 Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 6.3727742e-05
4,965 GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs 2023 PODS 6.3360914e-05
5,050 On the Optimization of Recursive Relational Queries: Application to Graph Queries 2020 SIGMOD 6.2976106e-05
5,174 Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.243251e-05
5,210 AeonG: An Efficient Built-in Temporal Support in Graph Databases 2024 VLDB 6.2257162e-05
5,455 Evolution of a Compiling Query Engine 2021 VLDB 6.1239975e-05
5,557 Representing Paths in Graph Database Pattern Matching 2023 VLDB 6.085853e-05
5,830 IBM Db2 Graph: Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2 2020 SIGMOD 5.9783099e-05
7,015 A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs 2022 SIGMOD 5.6210836e-05
7,078 DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS 2023 CIDR 5.6053079e-05
7,459 M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.5217718e-05
8,060 Updating Graph Databases with Cypher 2019 VLDB 5.3963318e-05
8,362 Conjunctive Regular Path Queries under Injective Semantics 2023 PODS 5.3473243e-05
8,584 Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data 2024 VLDB 5.3090795e-05
9,335 Enabling Rich Queries Over Heterogeneous Data From Diverse Sources In HealthCare 2020 CIDR 5.1917243e-05
9,364 Transforming RDF Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 5.1868213e-05
9,366 Transforming Property Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.1868213e-05
9,410 Output-Sensitive Evaluation of Regular Path Queries 2025 PODS 5.1826718e-05
9,485 PG-Triggers: Triggers for Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 5.1708619e-05
9,770 GraphScope Flex: LEGO-like Graph Computing Stack 2024 SIGMOD 5.133285e-05
9,794 Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries 2026 CIDR 5.1257999e-05
9,797 NeuSO: Neural Optimizer for Subgraph Queries 2026 SIGMOD 5.1257999e-05
9,980 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.1013913e-05
10,056 Finding Logic Bugs in Graph-processing Systems via Graph-cutting 2025 SIGMOD 5.0875952e-05
10,057 SPACE: Cardinality Estimation for Path Queries Using Cardinality-Aware Sequence-based Learning 2025 SIGMOD 5.0875952e-05
10,127 A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.0751052e-05
10,184 Path-centric Cardinality Estimation for Subgraph Matching 2025 VLDB 5.0651993e-05
10,215 Color: A Framework for Applying Graph Coloring to Subgraph Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 5.0584922e-05
10,251 TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine 2024 VLDB 5.0513876e-05
10,271 G-View: View Management for Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 5.0485061e-05
10,272 TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions 2025 VLDB 5.0485061e-05
10,363 Acyclic Conjunctive Regular Path Queries are no Harder than Corresponding Conjunctive Queries 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,384 A Logical View of GNN-Style Computation and the Role of Activation Functions 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,406 AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,609 SG-Serve: Efficient Model Serving for Subgraph-based Graph Representation Learning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,611 A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,675 R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,710 TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,835 Sankofa: Online Query-adaptive Dynamic Graph Summaries 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,854 Worst-Case Optimal BGPs on Temporal Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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