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We introduce PathQuery, a graph query language developed to scale with Google's query and data volumes as well as its internal developer community. PathQuery supports flexible and declarative semantics. We have found that this enables query…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jesse Weaver , Eric Paniagua , Tushar Agarwal , Nicholas Guy , Alexandre Mattos

We present a method of implementing GraphQL live queries at the database level. Our DynamoDB simulation in Go mimics a distributed key-value store and implements live queries to expose possible pitfalls. Two key components for implementing…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Austin Silveria

In recent years, research on transforming natural language into graph query language (NL2GQL) has been increasing. Most existing methods focus on single-turn transformation from NL to GQL. In practical applications, user interactions with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuanyuan Liang , Lei Pan , Tingyu Xie , Yunshi Lan , Weining Qian

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized many fields, not only traditional natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Recently, research on applying LLMs to the database field has been booming, and as a typical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuanyuan Liang , Tingyu Xie , Gan Peng , Zihao Huang , Yunshi Lan , Weining Qian

While current tasks of converting natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) using Foundation Models have shown impressive achievements, adapting these approaches for converting natural language to Graph Query Language (NL2GQL) encounters hurdles due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuhang Zhou , Yu He , Siyu Tian , Yuchen Ni , Zhangyue Yin , Xiang Liu , Chuanjun Ji , Sen Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Guangnan Ye , Hongfeng Chai

Pioneered by Google's Pregel, many distributed systems have been developed for large-scale graph analytics. These systems expose the user-friendly "think like a vertex" programming interface to users, and exhibit good horizontal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Da Yan , James Cheng , M. Tamer Özsu , Fan Yang , Yi Lu , John C. S. Lui , Qizhen Zhang , Wilfred Ng

Graph Databases (Graph DB) find extensive application across diverse domains such as finance, social networks, and medicine. Yet, the translation of Natural Language (NL) into the Graph Query Language (GQL), referred to as NL2GQL, poses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yuanyuan Liang , Keren Tan , Tingyu Xie , Wenbiao Tao , Siyuan Wang , Yunshi Lan , Weining Qian

Graph analysis is fundamental in real-world applications. Traditional approaches rely on SPARQL-like languages or clicking-and-dragging interfaces to interact with graph data. However, these methods either require users to possess high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yun Peng , Sen Lin , Qian Chen , Lyu Xu , Xiaojun Ren , Yafei Li , Jianliang Xu

The use of knowledge graphs for grounding agents in real-world Q&A applications has become increasingly common. Answering complex queries often requires multi-hop reasoning and the ability to navigate vast relational structures. Standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Mahyar , Shachar Klaiman

The growing demand for automated graph algorithm reasoning has attracted increasing attention in the large language model (LLM) community. Recent LLM-based graph reasoning methods typically decouple task descriptions from graph data,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fali Wang , Chenglin Weng , Xianren Zhang , Siyuan Hong , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

The development of practical query languages for graph databases runs well ahead of the underlying theory. The ISO committee in charge of database query languages is currently developing a new standard called Graph Query Language (GQL) as…

Graphs are foundational across domains but remain hard to use without deep expertise. LLMs promise accessible natural language (NL) graph analytics, yet they fail to process industry-scale property graphs effectively and efficiently: such…

SQL/PGQ is a new standard that integrates graph querying into relational systems, allowing users to freely switch between graph patterns and SQL. Our experiments show performance gaps between these models, as queries written in both…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hadar Rotschield , Liat Peterfreund

Applications such as Google Docs, Office 365, and Dropbox show a growing trend towards incorporating multi-user live collaboration functionality into web applications. These collaborative applications share a need to efficiently express…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Oliver Kennedy , Lukasz Ziarek

We present DashQL, a language that describes complete analysis workflows in self-contained scripts. DashQL combines SQL, the grammar of relational database systems, with a grammar of graphics in a grammar of analytics. It supports preparing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 André Kohn , Dominik Moritz , Thomas Neumann

With a large variety of communication methods and protocols, many software architects face the problem of choosing the best way for services to share information. For communication technology to be functional and practical, it should enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Łukasz Kamiński , Maciej Kozłowski , Daniel Sporysz , Katarzyna Wolska , Patryk Zaniewski , Radosław Roszczyk

Graph database query languages cannot express algorithms like PageRank, forcing costly data wrangling, while existing solutions such as algorithm libraries, vertex-centric APIs, and recursive CTEs lack the necessary combination of…

The amount of large-scale scientific computing software is dramatically increasing. In this work, we designed a new language, named feature query language (FQL), to collect and extract software features from a quick static code analysis. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Weijian Zheng , Dali Wang , Fengguang Song

Graph query languages feature mainly two kinds of queries when applied to a graph database: those inspired by relational databases which return tables such as SELECT queries and those which return graphs such as CONSTRUCT queries in SPARQL.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

The advent of large language models is contributing to the emergence of novel approaches that promise to better tackle the challenge of generating structured queries, such as SPARQL queries, from natural language. However, these new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Panayiotis Smeros , Vincent Emonet , Ruijie Wang , Ana-Claudia Sima , Tarcisio Mendes de Farias