Everything about Graph Query Language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Graph Query LanguageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: BuildingGPT: Query building semantic data using large language models and vector-graph retrieval-augmented generationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Graph DatabasesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Query languages for graph databasesCited 198 times
5. Go sideways: Cypher (query language)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Graph databaseA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Query languages for graph databases

  Peter T. Wood · 2012 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 198 citations

• G-Log: a graph-based query language

  J. Paredaens, P. Peelman, L. Tanca · 1995 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 68 citations

• A model and query language for temporal graph databases

  Ariel Debrouvier, Eliseo Parodi, Matías Perazzo · 2021 · The VLDB Journal · 67 citations

• PICASSO: A graphical query language

  Hyoung‐Joo Kim, Henry F. Korth, Avi Silberschatz · 1988 · Software: Practice and Experience · 57 citations

• LLM4QA: Leveraging Large Language Model for Efficient Knowledge Graph Reasoning with SPARQL Query

  Mingjing Lan, Yi Xia, Gang Zhou · 2024 · Journal of Advances in Information Technology · 46 citations

• Real-Time Text-to-Cypher Query Generation with Large Language Models for Graph Databases

  Markus Hornsteiner, Michael Kreussel, Christoph Steindl · 2024 · Future Internet · 32 citations

• Natural language question answering over knowledge graph: the marriage of SPARQL query and keyword search

  Xin Hu, Jiangli Duan, Depeng Dang · 2021 · Knowledge and Information Systems · 27 citations

• SociaLite: An Efficient Graph Query Language Based on Datalog

  Jiwon Seo, Stephen Guo, Monica S. Lam · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 26 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• BuildingGPT: Query building semantic data using large language models and vector-graph retrieval-augmented generation

  Mingchen Li, Zhe Wang · 2026 · Building and Environment · 23 citations

• KGVQL: A knowledge graph visual query language with bidirectional transformations

  Pengkai Liu, Xin Wang, Qiang Fu · 2022 · Knowledge-Based Systems · 19 citations

• AOPWIKI-EXPLORER: An interactive graph-based query engine leveraging large language models

  Saurav Kumar, Deepika Deepika, Karin Slater · 2024 · Computational Toxicology · 13 citations

• A Survey of Large Language Models on Generative Graph Analytics: Query, Learning, and Applications

  Wenbo Shang, Xin Huang · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 12 citations

• An Accurate Matching Query Method of Natural Language Knowledge Graph Based on Hierarchical Graph Topological Sequence

  Qifeng Zou, Chaoze Lu · 2022 · IEEE Access · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Graph DatabasesIan Robinson, Jim Webber · 2013

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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