Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems
Summary: Columnar storage and processing for graph workloads; derives GDBMS desiderata. Introduces list-based query processing, single-indexed edge property pages, edge-ID scheme, and Jacobson bit-vector compression; shown in GraphflowDB with scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Pranjal Gupta (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Amine Mhedhbi (University of Waterloo)
- 3. Semih Salihoglu (University of Waterloo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gupta_vldb21,
title = {{Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems}},
author = {Gupta, Pranjal and Mhedhbi, Amine and Salihoglu, Semih},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {11},
pages = {2491--2504},
doi = {10.14778/3476249.3476297},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476249.3476297},
year = {2021}
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