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As of today, there exists no standard language for querying Linked Data on the Web, where navigation across distributed data sources is a key feature. A natural candidate seems to be SPARQL, which recently has been enhanced with…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Olaf Hartig , Giuseppe Pirro

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

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

As data are increasingly modeled as graphs for expressing complex relationships, the tree pattern query on graph-structured data becomes an important type of queries in real-world applications. Most practical query languages, such as XQuery…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Qiang Zeng , Xiaorui Jiang , Hai Zhuge

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime to execute queries. Using GraphQL queries, clients define precisely what data they wish to retrieve or mutate on a server, leading to fewer round trips and reduced response sizes. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Erik Wittern , Alan Cha , James C. Davis , Guillaume Baudart , Louis Mandel

In the last decade, substantial progress has been made towards standardizing the syntax of graph query languages, and towards understanding their semantics and complexity of evaluation. In this paper, we consider temporal property graphs…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Marcelo Arenas , Pedro Bahamondes , Amir Aghasadeghi , Julia Stoyanovich

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

Querying knowledge bases using ontologies is usually performed using dedicated query languages, question-answering systems, or visual query editors for Knowledge Graphs. We propose a novel approach that enables users to query the knowledge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Benedikt Kantz , Kevin Innerebner , Peter Waldert , Stefan Lengauer , Elisabeth Lex , Tobias Schreck

Purpose: The query language GraphQL has gained significant traction in recent years. In particular, it has recently gained the attention of the semantic web and graph database communities and is now often used as a means to query knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Nikolaos Karalis , Alexander Bigerl , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Constraints are powerful declarative constructs that allow users to conveniently restrict variable values that potentially range over an infinite domain. In this paper, we propose a constraint path query language over property graphs, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Heyang Li , Anthony Widjaja Lin , Domagoj Vrgoč

We introduce Raqlet, a source-to-source compilation framework that addresses the fragmentation of recursive querying engines spanning relational (recursive SQL), graph (Cypher, GQL), and deductive (Datalog) systems. Recent standards such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Amir Shaikhha , Youning Xia , Meisam Tarabkhah , Jazal Saleem , Anna Herlihy

Binary relations are one of the standard ways to encode, characterise and reason about graphs. Relation algebras provide equational axioms for a large fragment of the calculus of binary relations. Although relations are standard tools in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Rudolf Berghammer , Hitoshi Furusawa , Walter Guttmann , Peter Höfner

For decades, SQL has been the default language for composing queries, but it is increasingly used as an artifact to be read and verified rather than authored. With Large Language Models (LLMs), queries are increasingly machine-generated,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Diandre Miguel Sabale

This paper uses typed linear algebra (LA) to represent data and perform analytical querying in a single, unified framework. The typed approach offers strong type checking (as in modern programming languages) and a diagrammatic way of…

We study persistent query evaluation over streaming graphs, which is becoming increasingly important. We focus on navigational queries that determine if there exists a path between two entities that satisfies a user-specified constraint. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Anil Pacaci , Angela Bonifati , M. Tamer Özsu

The landscape of web APIs is evolving to meet new client requirements and to facilitate how providers fulfill them. A recent web API model is GraphQL, which is both a query language and a runtime. Using GraphQL, client queries express the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alan Cha , Erik Wittern , Guillaume Baudart , James C. Davis , Louis Mandel , Jim A. Laredo

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

Navigational queries for graph-structured data, such as the regular path queries and the context-free path queries, are usually evaluated to a relation of node-pairs $(m, n)$ such that there is a path from $m$ to $n$ satisfying the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Jelle Hellings

Subject to the huge semantic gap between natural and formal languages, neural semantic parsing is typically bottlenecked by its complexity of dealing with both input semantics and output syntax. Recent works have proposed several forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lunyiu Nie , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Jiuding Sun , Qi Tian , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jidong Zhai

The recent ISO SQL:2023 standard adopts SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries), facilitating graph-like querying within relational databases. This advancement, however, underscores a significant gap in how to effectively optimize SQL/PGQ queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yunkai Lou , Longbin Lai , Bingqing Lyu , Yufan Yang , Xiaoli Zhou , Wenyuan Yu , Ying Zhang , Jingren Zhou