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20122026
most citedLiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans

70 citations · 83 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.DB2026

STEER: Reducing Inference Cost in Relational Foundation Models through Semantically Informed Sampling

Abdalla Mohamed, Ashraf Aboulnaga

Relational foundation models (RFMs) are pretrained once on a collection of relational databases and prediction tasks, and then applied zero-shot to previously unseen databases and…

cs.DB2026

MetaSieve: Faster Relational Deep Learning through SQL-Based Metapath Selection

Fahim Shahriar Khan, Ashraf Aboulnaga

Relational Deep Learning (RDL) is an effective approach to machine learning over multi-table relational databases. In RDL, a database is modeled as a graph in which each row is a n…

cs.LG2026

An LLM-Guided Query-Aware Inference System for GNN Models on Large Knowledge Graphs

Waleed Afandi, Hussein Abdallah, Ashraf Aboulnaga +1

Efficient inference for graph neural networks (GNNs) on large knowledge graphs (KGs) is essential for many real-world applications. GNN inference queries are computationally expens…

cs.LG2025

gHAWK: Local and Global Structure Encoding for Scalable Training of Graph Neural Networks on Knowledge Graphs

Humera Sabir, Fatima Farooq, Ashraf Aboulnaga

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a rich source of structured, heterogeneous data, powering a wide range of applications. A common approach to leverage this data is to train a graph neura…

cs.DB2023★ 1 cited

Enhancing Computation Pushdown for Cloud OLAP Databases

Yifei Yang, Xiangyao Yu, Marco Serafini +2

Network is a major bottleneck in modern cloud databases that adopt a storage-disaggregation architecture. Computation pushdown is a promising solution to tackle this issue, which o…

cs.DB2020★ 4 cited

PushdownDB: Accelerating a DBMS using S3 Computation

Xiangyao Yu, Matt Youill, Matthew Woicik +4

This paper studies the effectiveness of pushing parts of DBMS analytics queries into the Simple Storage Service (S3) engine of Amazon Web Services (AWS), using a recently released…

cs.DB2020

RDFFrames: Knowledge Graph Access for Machine Learning Tools

Aisha Mohamed, Ghadeer Abuoda, Abdurrahman Ghanem +2

Knowledge graphs represented as RDF datasets are integral to many machine learning applications. RDF is supported by a rich ecosystem of data management systems and tools, most not…

cs.DB2019★ 70 cited

LiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans

Xiaowei Zhu, Guanyu Feng, Marco Serafini +5

The specific characteristics of graph workloads make it hard to design a one-size-fits-all graph storage system. Systems that support transactional updates use data structures with…

cs.SI2019

Link Prediction via Higher-Order Motif Features

Ghadeer Abuoda, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Ashraf Aboulnaga

Link prediction requires predicting which new links are likely to appear in a graph. Being able to predict unseen links with good accuracy has important applications in several dom…

cs.DB2018★ 3 cited

Sapphire: Querying RDF Data Made Simple

Ahmed El-Roby, Khaled Ammar, Ashraf Aboulnaga +1

RDF data in the linked open data (LOD) cloud is very valuable for many different applications. In order to unlock the full value of this data, users should be able to issue complex…

cs.DC2015★ 5 cited

Arabesque: A System for Distributed Graph Mining - Extended version

Carlos H. C. Teixeira, Alexandre J. Fonseca, Marco Serafini +3

Distributed data processing platforms such as MapReduce and Pregel have substantially simplified the design and deployment of certain classes of distributed graph analytics algorit…

cs.DB2012

ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs

Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga

Analyzing large scale data has emerged as an important activity for many organizations in the past few years. This large scale data analysis is facilitated by the MapReduce program…