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Graphflow: An Active Graph Database

Summary: Graphflow is an active graph DB for continuous subgraph queries, addressing inefficiency in passive systems. It provides Cypher++ (Neo4j-like) with subgraph-condition-action triggers and introduces Generic Join and Delta Generic Join as worst-case-optimal engines for one-time and continuous subgraph queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf96d167bb1585e88
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00012293903
Overall Rank
1,049 | 92.97%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3056445

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kankanamge_sigmod17,
        title = {{Graphflow: An Active Graph Database}},
        author = {Kankanamge, Chathura and Sahu, Siddhartha and Mhedbhi, Amine and Chen, Jeremy and Salihoglu, Semih},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3056445},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3056445},
        year = {2017}
}

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318 Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms: Techniques, Results, and Open Problems 2018 PODS 0.00021178303
706 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00014622696
942 Real-time Constrained Cycle Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs 2018 VLDB 0.00012936571
1,171 In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011677799
1,253 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011316982
1,764 Kuzu* Graph Database Management System 2023 CIDR 9.6923285e-05
1,988 RapidMatch: A Holistic Approach to Subgraph Query Processing 2021 VLDB 9.2301018e-05
2,226 TurboFlux: A Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching System for Streaming Graph Data 2018 SIGMOD 8.7971869e-05
2,478 GPU-Accelerated Subgraph Enumeration on Partitioned Graphs 2020 SIGMOD 8.3890338e-05
3,020 Efficient GPU-Accelerated Subgraph Matching 2023 SIGMOD 7.7267183e-05
3,215 Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 7.5117201e-05
3,885 Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow 2019 VLDB 6.9282318e-05
3,940 Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations 2024 VLDB 6.8942302e-05
4,099 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Study of Subgraph Matching: Trends, Unbiasedness, and Interaction 2024 SIGMOD 6.7940875e-05
4,133 HUGE: An Efficient and Scalable Subgraph Enumeration System 2021 SIGMOD 6.7738028e-05
4,370 Circinus: Fast Redundancy-Reduced Subgraph Matching 2023 SIGMOD 6.6213567e-05
4,485 Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching over Streaming Graphs via Backtracking Reduction 2023 SIGMOD 6.5644966e-05
4,520 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 6.549791e-05
4,801 Symmetric Continuous Subgraph Matching with Bidirectional Dynamic Programming 2021 VLDB 6.3940913e-05
5,238 AeonG: An Efficient Built-in Temporal Support in Graph Databases 2024 VLDB 6.2021926e-05
5,404 RapidFlow: An Efficient Approach to Continuous Subgraph Matching 2022 VLDB 6.132986e-05
5,690 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 6.0182427e-05
5,717 Combining Sampling and Synopses with Worst-Case Optimal Runtime and Quality Guarantees for Graph Pattern Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 6.0067263e-05
5,995 An In-Depth Study of Continuous Subgraph Matching 2022 VLDB 5.903845e-05
6,251 BICE: Exploring Compact Search Space by Using Bipartite Matching and Cell-Wide Verification 2023 VLDB 5.8179719e-05
6,272 SUFF: Accelerating Subgraph Matching with Historical Data 2023 VLDB 5.8112899e-05
6,501 Modern Techniques for Querying Graph-Structured Relations: Foundations, System Implementations, and Open Challenges 2022 VLDB 5.7470793e-05
6,711 BSX : Subgraph Matching with Batch Backtracking Search 2025 SIGMOD 5.6854796e-05
7,502 Extending Graph Patterns with Conditions 2020 SIGMOD 5.4943054e-05
8,556 GRainDB: A Relational-core Graph-Relational DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.3017563e-05
8,667 Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins 2022 VLDB 5.2770612e-05
9,059 MatCo: Computing Match Cover of Subgraph Query over Graph Data 2025 SIGMOD 5.21427e-05
9,179 In-depth Analysis of Continuous Subgraph Matching in a Common Delta Query Compilation Framework 2024 SIGMOD 5.1992749e-05
9,525 PG-Triggers: Triggers for Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 5.151324e-05
9,586 GES: High-Performance Graph Processing Engine and Service in Huawei 2025 SIGMOD 5.1392367e-05
9,843 RapidStore: An Efficient Dynamic Graph Storage System for Concurrent Queries 2025 VLDB 5.1064323e-05
9,881 BEE: Towards Redundancy Reduction via Block-Separator Decomposition for Subgraph Matching 2026 SIGMOD 5.1043481e-05
9,882 Accelerating Subgraph Matching through Fine-grained and Powerful Equivalences 2025 VLDB 5.1043481e-05
9,932 Incremental View Maintenance for Property Graph Queries 2018 SIGMOD 5.095154e-05
9,996 Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment 2025 VLDB 5.0845476e-05
10,101 TC-Match: Fast Time-constrained Continuous Subgraph Matching 2024 VLDB 5.068372e-05
10,116 GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support 2025 SIGMOD 5.0638787e-05
10,168 A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.0559291e-05
10,286 TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine 2024 VLDB 5.0333144e-05
10,363 Optimizing Differentially-Maintained Recursive Queries on Dynamic Graphs 2022 VLDB 5.0122065e-05
10,498 Beyond Maximum Common Subgraph: A Framework Maximizing Shared Computation for Multi-Query Subgraph Matching 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,529 Factorized and Vectorized Execution: Optimizing Analytical and Semantic Queries over Relations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,630 Continuous Subgraph Matching via Cost-Model-based Dynamic Vertex Dominance Embeddings 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,689 An Extensive Experimental Study of Indexes in Continuous Subgraph Matching:[Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,779 A Semantics-aware Approach for Graph Edit Distance Estimation over Knowledge Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00038944207
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