cs.DB · 2026-09-02 · No. 103

Databases, 2026-09-02.

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    Relational-Core Graph Analytics Querying graphs at SQL scale, and why the node/edge model is a performance tax, not a truer picture of connected data

    Gene Zhang

    cs.DB · cs.AI · cs.PL

    A durable assumption holds that graph analytics requires a purpose-built graph engine, and that relational systems are ill-suited to connected data. We argue the opposite for the workloads enterprises actually run. A columnar relational engine fronted by a graph query language matches or exceeds native graph engines on analytical graph queries, and - decisively - scales past the point where in-memory graph engines fail. We further argue that...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.01525 · PDF

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