Visible to the public PatMat: A Distributed Pattern Matching Engine with Cypher

TitlePatMat: A Distributed Pattern Matching Engine with Cypher
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsHao, Kongzhang, Yang, Zhengyi, Lai, Longbin, Lai, Zhengmin, Jin, Xin, Lin, Xuemin
Conference NameProceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Date PublishedNovember 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Conference LocationBeijing, China
ISBN Number978-1-4503-6976-3
Keywordscyber physical systems, Cypher, distributed processing, graph database, graph pattern matching, join optimization, Lightweight Ciphers, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability
AbstractGraph pattern matching is one of the most fundamental problems in graph database and is associated with a wide spectrum of applications. Due to its computational intensiveness, researchers have primarily devoted their efforts to improving the performance of the algorithm while constraining the graphs to have singular labels on vertices (edges) or no label. Whereas in practice graphs are typically associated with rich properties, thus the main focus in the industry is instead on powerful query languages that can express a sufficient number of pattern matching scenarios. We demo PatMat in this work to glue together the academic efforts on performance and the industrial efforts on expressiveness. To do so, we leverage the state-of-the-art join-based algorithms in the distributed contexts and Cypher query language - the most widely-adopted declarative language for graph pattern matching. The experiments demonstrate how we are capable of turning complex Cypher semantics into a distributed solution with high performance.
URLhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357384.3357840
DOI10.1145/3357384.3357840
Citation Keyhao_patmat_2019