An In-depth Comparison of Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithms in Graph Databases
Summary: Re-implements five state-of-the-art subgraph isomorphism algorithms in a unified code base and benchmarks them on real-world datasets. Reveals surprising empirical results, including performance gaps tied to implementation choices and reproducibility concerns in graph-query evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jinsoo Lee (Kyungpook National University)
- 2. Wook-Shin Han (Kyungpook National University)
- 3. Romans Kasperovics (Kyungpook National University)
- 4. Jeong-Hoon Lee (Kyungpook National University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lee_vldb13,
title = {{An In-depth Comparison of Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithms in Graph Databases}},
author = {Lee, Jinsoo and Han, Wook-Shin and Kasperovics, Romans and Lee, Jeong-Hoon},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '13},
volume = {6},
number = {2},
pages = {133--144},
doi = {10.14778/2732232.2732239},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732232.2732239},
year = {2013}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00026634326 |
| 195 | Algorithmics and Applications of Tree and Graph Searching | 2002 | PODS | 0.00025589066 |
| 288 | Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00022009138 |
| 333 | FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00020712452 |
| 356 | On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00020086045 |
| 439 | Taming Verification Hardness: An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Subgraph Isomorphism | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00018247958 |
| 734 | Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00014334121 |
| 1,378 | Neighborhood Based Fast Graph Search in Large Networks | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00010848501 |
| 3,504 | iGraph: A Framework for Comparisons of Disk-Based Graph Indexing Techniques | 2010 | VLDB | 7.2296629e-05 |
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