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M. Besta, S. Chandran, J. Cudak, P. Iff, M. Copik, R. Gerstenberger, T. Szydlo, J. Müller, T. Hoefler:

 Higher-Order Graph Databases

(arXiv:2506.19661. Jun. 2025)

Abstract

Recent advances in graph databases (GDBs) have been driving interest in large-scale analytics, yet current systems fail to support higher-order (HO) interactions beyond first-order (one-hop) relations, which are crucial for tasks such as subgraph counting, polyadic modeling, and HO graph learning. We address this by introducing a new class of systems, higher-order graph databases (HO-GDBs) that use lifting and lowering paradigms to seamlessly extend traditional GDBs with HO. We provide a theoretical analysis of OLTP and OLAP queries, ensuring correctness, scalability, and ACID compliance. We implement a lightweight, modular, and parallelizable HO-GDB prototype that offers native support for hypergraphs, node-tuples, subgraphs, and other HO structures under a unified API. The prototype scales to large HO OLTP & OLAP workloads and shows how HO improves analytical tasks, for example enhancing accuracy of graph neural networks within a GDB by 44%. Our work ensures low latency and high query throughput, and generalizes both ACID-compliant and eventually consistent systems.

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@article{besta2025higher,
  author={Maciej Besta and Shriram Chandran and Jakub Cudak and Patrick Iff and Marcin Copik and Robert Gerstenberger and Tomasz Szydlo and Jürgen Müller and Torsten Hoefler},
  title={{Higher-Order Graph Databases}},
  journal={arXiv:2506.19661},
  year={2025},
  month={06},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2506.19661},
}