Abstract
Graph queries have lately gained increased interest due to application areas such as social networks, biological networks, or model queries. For the relational database case the relational algebra and generalized discrimination networks have been studied to find appropriate decompositions into subqueries and ordering of these subqueries for query evaluation or incremental updates of queries. For graph database queries however there is no formal underpinning yet that allows us to find such suitable operationalizations. Consequently, we suggest a simple operational concept for the decomposition of arbitrary complex queries into simpler subqueries and the ordering of these subqueries in form of generalized discrimination networks for graph queries inspired by the relational case. The approach employs graph transformation rules for the nodes of the network and thus we can employ the underlying theory. We further show that the proposed generalized discrimination networks have the same expressive power as nested graph conditions.
This work was partially developed in the course of the project Correct Model Transformations II (GI 765/1-2), which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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It is to be noted that a simple record as provided by an SQL-statement is also a special form of graph where no links are included.
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While in practice the requested number of answers is often limited to a fixed upper bound of answers, for our more theoretical considerations in this paper, we can assume w.l.o.g. that all matches of L for G that fulfill the additional properties that must hold are building the correct set of answers.
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W.l.o.g. we restrict our notion of condition satisfaction to the existence of monomorphisms. In particular, in [12] it is shown how to translate conditions relying on general morphism matching/satisfaction into equivalent conditions relying on monomorphism matching/satisfaction and the other way round.
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Beyhl, T., Blouin, D., Giese, H., Lambers, L. (2016). On the Operationalization of Graph Queries with Generalized Discrimination Networks. In: Echahed, R., Minas, M. (eds) Graph Transformation. ICGT 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9761. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40530-8_11
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