Dinkel: State-Aware and Granular Framework for Validating Graph Databases
Summary: Dinkel generates deep, valid Cypher by tracking query context and graph schema while evolving graph state clause by clause. Clause- and expression-level semantics-preserving transformations provide general oracles, exposing 127 bugs across three GDBMSs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Celine Wüst (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Zuming Jiang (ETH Zurich; University of Hong Kong)
- 3. Zhendong Su (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wust_vldb26,
title = {{Dinkel: State-Aware and Granular Framework for Validating Graph Databases}},
author = {Wüst, Celine and Jiang, Zuming and Su, Zhendong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '26},
volume = {19},
number = {6},
pages = {1198--1211},
doi = {10.14778/3797919.3797928},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3797919.3797928},
year = {2026}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,782 | Testing Graph Databases via Transformations Between Fixed-Length and Variable-Length Queries | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,928 | Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS | 2023 | SIGMOD | 9.3567082e-05 |
| 3,936 | Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations | 2024 | VLDB | 6.9162836e-05 |
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