Relational-Core Graph Analytics Querying graphs at SQL scale, and why the node/edge model is a performance tax, not a truer picture of connected data

arXiv:2609.01525 · cs.DB, cs.AI, cs.PL · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.DB, cs.AI, cs.PL

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Code: https://github.com/genezhang/clickgraph

Project page: https://genezhang.github.io/clickgraph

Terminology

• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Skills — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Compressed Sparse Row — 1× in this paper
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Introspection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Towards a Converged Relational-Graph Optimization Framework

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