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SQL2Cypher: Automated Data and Query Migration from RDBMS to GDBMS

Shunyang Li, Zhengyi Yang, Xianhang Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin

International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

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Year
2021
Publisher
Springer
Track
Demonstration
Rankings
ICORE 2026 B · CORE 2023 B · CCF B

Research Area

Scalable Data Systems

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Abstract

There are many real-world application domains where data can be naturally modelled as a graph, such as social networks and computer networks. Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) find it hard to capture the relationships and inherent graph structure of data and are inappropriate for storing highly connected data; thus, graph databases have emerged to address the challenges of high data connectivity. As the performance of querying highly connected data in relational query statements is usually worse than that in the graph database. Transforming data from a relational database to a graph database is imperative for improving the performance of graph queries. In this paper, we demonstrate SQL2Cypher, a system for migrating data from a relational database to a graph database automatically. This system also supports translating SQL queries into Cypher queries. SQL2Cypher is open-source (https://github.com/UNSW-database/SQL2Cypher) to allow researchers and programmers to migrate data efficiently. Our demonstration video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaeBrVTJws.

Author Affiliations

Shunyang Li
University of New South Wales
Zhengyi Yang
University of New South Wales
Xianhang Zhang
University of New South Wales
Wenjie Zhang
University of New South Wales
Xuemin Lin
University of New South Wales

BibTeX

@inproceedings{li2021sql2cypher,
  title = {SQL2Cypher: Automated Data and Query Migration from RDBMS to GDBMS},
  author = {Li, Shunyang and Yang, Zhengyi and Zhang, Xianhang and Zhang, Wenjie and Lin, Xuemin},
  editor = {Zhang, Wenjie and Zou, Lei and Maamar, Zakaria and Chen, Lu},
  booktitle = {Web Information Systems Engineering -- WISE 2021},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {510--517},
  isbn = {978-3-030-91560-5}
}