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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
0.00012316579
Overall Rank
1,046 | 92.98%
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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315 Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms: Techniques, Results, and Open Problems 2018 PODS 0.00021236408
713 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00014571507
937 Real-time Constrained Cycle Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs 2018 VLDB 0.00012971451
1,180 In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011622165
1,252 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011334813
1,753 Kuzu* Graph Database Management System 2023 CIDR 9.7244117e-05
2,017 RapidMatch: A Holistic Approach to Subgraph Query Processing 2021 VLDB 9.1788573e-05
2,212 TurboFlux: A Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching System for Streaming Graph Data 2018 SIGMOD 8.8195478e-05
2,468 GPU-Accelerated Subgraph Enumeration on Partitioned Graphs 2020 SIGMOD 8.4138334e-05
3,012 Efficient GPU-Accelerated Subgraph Matching 2023 SIGMOD 7.7512751e-05
3,206 Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 7.5365348e-05
3,881 Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow 2019 VLDB 6.9477894e-05
3,937 Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations 2024 VLDB 6.9130095e-05
4,077 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Study of Subgraph Matching: Trends, Unbiasedness, and Interaction 2024 SIGMOD 6.8156109e-05
4,124 HUGE: An Efficient and Scalable Subgraph Enumeration System 2021 SIGMOD 6.7895411e-05
4,501 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 6.5715206e-05
4,512 Circinus: Fast Redundancy-Reduced Subgraph Matching 2023 SIGMOD 6.5650165e-05
4,589 Fast Continuous Subgraph Matching over Streaming Graphs via Backtracking Reduction 2023 SIGMOD 6.5130839e-05
4,783 Symmetric Continuous Subgraph Matching with Bidirectional Dynamic Programming 2021 VLDB 6.4133399e-05
5,212 AeonG: An Efficient Built-in Temporal Support in Graph Databases 2024 VLDB 6.222769e-05
5,383 RapidFlow: An Efficient Approach to Continuous Subgraph Matching 2022 VLDB 6.1533182e-05
5,684 iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 6.0362827e-05
5,904 Combining Sampling and Synopses with Worst-Case Optimal Runtime and Quality Guarantees for Graph Pattern Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 5.9511271e-05
5,984 An In-Depth Study of Continuous Subgraph Matching 2022 VLDB 5.9234316e-05
6,487 Modern Techniques for Querying Graph-Structured Relations: Foundations, System Implementations, and Open Challenges 2022 VLDB 5.7661458e-05
6,506 BICE: Exploring Compact Search Space by Using Bipartite Matching and Cell-Wide Verification 2023 VLDB 5.758981e-05
6,517 SUFF: Accelerating Subgraph Matching with Historical Data 2023 VLDB 5.7563618e-05
6,966 BSX : Subgraph Matching with Batch Backtracking Search 2025 SIGMOD 5.6301341e-05
7,483 Extending Graph Patterns with Conditions 2020 SIGMOD 5.5124816e-05
8,539 GRainDB: A Relational-core Graph-Relational DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.3193454e-05
8,648 Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins 2022 VLDB 5.2945683e-05
9,038 MatCo: Computing Match Cover of Subgraph Query over Graph Data 2025 SIGMOD 5.2315688e-05
9,157 In-depth Analysis of Continuous Subgraph Matching in a Common Delta Query Compilation Framework 2024 SIGMOD 5.216524e-05
9,496 PG-Triggers: Triggers for Property Graphs 2024 SIGMOD 5.168414e-05
9,560 GES: High-Performance Graph Processing Engine and Service in Huawei 2025 SIGMOD 5.1562866e-05
9,809 RapidStore: An Efficient Dynamic Graph Storage System for Concurrent Queries 2025 VLDB 5.1233734e-05
9,898 Incremental View Maintenance for Property Graph Queries 2018 SIGMOD 5.1120577e-05
9,963 Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment 2025 VLDB 5.1014161e-05
10,067 TC-Match: Fast Time-constrained Continuous Subgraph Matching 2024 VLDB 5.0851868e-05
10,082 GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support 2025 SIGMOD 5.0806786e-05
10,131 A Modular Graph-Native Query Optimization Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.0727027e-05
10,258 TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine 2024 VLDB 5.0489964e-05
10,259 BEE: Towards Redundancy Reduction via Block-Separator Decomposition for Subgraph Matching 2026 SIGMOD 5.0480912e-05
10,264 Accelerating Subgraph Matching through Fine-grained and Powerful Equivalences 2025 VLDB 5.0480912e-05
10,337 Optimizing Differentially-Maintained Recursive Queries on Dynamic Graphs 2022 VLDB 5.0288349e-05
10,432 Beyond Maximum Common Subgraph: A Framework Maximizing Shared Computation for Multi-Query Subgraph Matching 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,463 Factorized and Vectorized Execution: Optimizing Analytical and Semantic Queries over Relations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,566 Continuous Subgraph Matching via Cost-Model-based Dynamic Vertex Dominance Embeddings 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,628 An Extensive Experimental Study of Indexes in Continuous Subgraph Matching:[Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,718 A Semantics-aware Approach for Graph Edit Distance Estimation over Knowledge Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039040346
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