GraQL: A Query Language for High-Performance Attributed Graph Databases

Graph databases are becoming a critical tool for the analysis of graph-structured data in the context of multiple scientific and technical domains, including cybersecurity and computational biology. In particular, the storage, analysis and querying of attributed graphs is a very important capability. Attributed graphs contain properties attached to the vertices and edges of the graph structure. Queries over attributed graphs do not only include structural pattern matching, but also conditions over the values of the attributes. In this work, we present GraQL, a query language designed for high-performance attributed graph databases hosted on a high memory capacity cluster. GraQL is designed to be the front-end language for the attributed graph data model for the GEMS database system.