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Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ

Summary: GPML: shared graph pattern-matching sub-language underpinning both GQL and SQL/PGQ. WG3 and LDBC analyze the standardization design process and present the key GPML elements plus a path to formal semantics ahead of publication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
had612ed648ffc169
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2022
Pagerank
0.00010502195
Overall Rank
1,494 | 89.96%
DOI
10.1145/3514221.3526057

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{deutsch_sigmod22,
        title = {{Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ}},
        author = {Deutsch, Alin and Francis, Nadime and Green, Alastair and Hare, Keith and Li, Bei and Libkin, Leonid and Lindaaker, Tobias and Marsault, Victor and Martens, Wim and Michels, Jan and Murlak, Filip and Plantikow, Stefan and Selmer, Petra and van Rest, Oskar and Voigt, Hannes and Vrgoč, Domagoj and Wu, Mingxi and Zemke, Fred},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526057},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526057},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,482 PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 0.00010538703
3,055 The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload 2023 VLDB 7.6979859e-05
3,835 Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta 2023 SIGMOD 6.9931698e-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
5,233 Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 6.2176841e-05
5,239 DuckPGQ: Bringing SQL/PGQ to DuckDB 2023 VLDB 6.215736e-05
5,511 Runtime-Extensible Parsers 2025 CIDR 6.0994747e-05
5,557 Representing Paths in Graph Database Pattern Matching 2023 VLDB 6.085853e-05
6,013 SQL Nulls and Two-Valued Logic 2023 PODS 5.9141967e-05
6,296 Declarative Sub-Operators for Universal Data Processing 2023 VLDB 5.8195258e-05
7,078 DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS 2023 CIDR 5.6053079e-05
7,347 Containment of Graph Queries Modulo Schema 2024 PODS 5.5458571e-05
7,811 The Complexity of Regular Trail and Simple Path Queries on Undirected Graphs 2022 PODS 5.4487427e-05
8,180 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.3820899e-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
9,140 Materialized View Selection & View-Based Query Planning for Regular Path Queries 2024 SIGMOD 5.2214001e-05
9,176 Towards Theory for Real-World Data 2022 PODS 5.2127522e-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
9,980 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.1013913e-05
10,128 Chimera: A system design of dual storage and traversal-join unified query processing for SQL/PGQ 2025 VLDB 5.0751052e-05
10,184 Path-centric Cardinality Estimation for Subgraph Matching 2025 VLDB 5.0651993e-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
10,301 Worst-Case-Optimal Similarity Joins on Graph Databases 2024 SIGMOD 5.040157e-05
10,431 cuRPQ: A High-Performance GPU-Based Framework for Processing Regular and Conjunctive Regular Path Queries 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
10,707 Repairing Property Graphs under PG-Constraints 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,835 Sankofa: Online Query-adaptive Dynamic Graph Summaries 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,879 Computing Why-Provenance for Property Graph Queries 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,993 cuRPQ+: A System for Interactive Path-Aware Querying Beyond Plain CRPQs 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,033 An Extended Tutorial and Vocabulary for Relational Language Design in an Era of AI-Assisted Query Generation 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,181 Dangers of List Processing in Querying Property Graphs 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,345 What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,394 GraphAr: An Efficient Storage Scheme for Graph Data in Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,428 Versatile Property Graph Transformations 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,539 Connectivity-Oriented Property Graph Partitioning for Distributed Graph Pattern Query Processing 2024 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,606 KGFabric: A Scalable Knowledge Graph Warehouse for Enterprise Data Interconnection 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,834 Data Path Queries over Embedded Graph Databases 2022 PODS 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
305 A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion 1987 SIGMOD 0.0002159111
419 Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001854669
719 Querying Graph Databases 2013 PODS 0.00014529156
860 G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013406849
1,468 Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data 2010 PODS 0.00010566509
1,597 Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases 1989 VLDB 0.0001012429
2,041 Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries 1999 PODS 9.1421879e-05
2,831 PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 7.9602632e-05
3,578 Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph 2020 SIGMOD 7.1926749e-05
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