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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
0.00018537915
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 0.00013401414
1,483 PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 0.00010533714
1,494 Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010497226
2,775 GraphScope: A Unified Engine For Big Graph Processing 2021 VLDB 8.0288982e-05
2,831 PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 7.9564949e-05
2,939 RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark 2019 SIGMOD 7.8318902e-05
3,206 Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 7.5365348e-05
3,835 Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta 2023 SIGMOD 6.9899256e-05
3,937 Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations 2024 VLDB 6.9130095e-05
4,554 GQL and SQL/PGQ: Theoretical Models and Expressive Power 2025 VLDB 6.5362379e-05
4,877 Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 6.3697574e-05
4,967 GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs 2023 PODS 6.3330919e-05
5,054 On the Optimization of Recursive Relational Queries: Application to Graph Queries 2020 SIGMOD 6.2946294e-05
5,175 Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.2402956e-05
5,212 AeonG: An Efficient Built-in Temporal Support in Graph Databases 2024 VLDB 6.222769e-05
5,460 Evolution of a Compiling Query Engine 2021 VLDB 6.1210985e-05
5,559 Representing Paths in Graph Database Pattern Matching 2023 VLDB 6.082972e-05
5,832 IBM Db2 Graph: Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2 2020 SIGMOD 5.9754821e-05
7,016 A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs 2022 SIGMOD 5.6184227e-05
7,080 DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS 2023 CIDR 5.6026544e-05
7,463 M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.5191578e-05
8,066 Updating Graph Databases with Cypher 2019 VLDB 5.3937772e-05
8,366 Conjunctive Regular Path Queries under Injective Semantics 2023 PODS 5.3447929e-05
8,591 Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data 2024 VLDB 5.3065663e-05
9,344 Enabling Rich Queries Over Heterogeneous Data From Diverse Sources In HealthCare 2020 CIDR 5.1892666e-05
9,373 Transforming RDF Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 5.1843659e-05
9,375 Transforming Property Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.1843659e-05
9,420 Output-Sensitive Evaluation of Regular Path Queries 2025 PODS 5.1802184e-05
9,496 PG-Triggers: Triggers for Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 5.168414e-05
9,775 GraphScope Flex: LEGO-like Graph Computing Stack 2024 SIGMOD 5.130855e-05
9,800 Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries 2026 CIDR 5.1233734e-05
9,804 NeuSO: Neural Optimizer for Subgraph Queries 2026 SIGMOD 5.1233734e-05
9,989 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.0989764e-05
10,061 Finding Logic Bugs in Graph-processing Systems via Graph-cutting 2025 SIGMOD 5.0851868e-05
10,062 SPACE: Cardinality Estimation for Path Queries Using Cardinality-Aware Sequence-based Learning 2025 SIGMOD 5.0851868e-05
10,131 A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.0727027e-05
10,187 Path-centric Cardinality Estimation for Subgraph Matching 2025 VLDB 5.0628015e-05
10,221 Color: A Framework for Applying Graph Coloring to Subgraph Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 5.0560976e-05
10,258 TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine 2024 VLDB 5.0489964e-05
10,277 G-View: View Management for Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 5.0461162e-05
10,278 TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions 2025 VLDB 5.0461162e-05
10,375 Acyclic Conjunctive Regular Path Queries are no Harder than Corresponding Conjunctive Queries 2026 PODS 4.9769913e-05
10,396 A Logical View of GNN-Style Computation and the Role of Activation Functions 2026 PODS 4.9769913e-05
10,418 AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,620 SG-Serve: Efficient Model Serving for Subgraph-based Graph Representation Learning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,622 A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,686 R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,720 TurboLynx: Schemaless Graph Engine Strikes Back for General-Purpose Analytics 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,845 Sankofa: Online Query-adaptive Dynamic Graph Summaries 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,863 Worst-Case Optimal BGPs on Temporal Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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