ExtGraph: A Fast Extraction Method of User-intended Graphs from a Relational Database

Abstract: Graph analytics is widely used in many fields to analyze various complex patterns. However, in most cases, important data in companies is stored in RDBMS's, and so, it is necessary to extract graphs from relational databases to perform graph analysis. Most of the existing methods do not extract a user-intended graph since it typically requires complex join query processing. We propose an efficient graph extraction method, \textit{ExtGraph}, which can extract user-intended graphs efficiently by hybrid query processing of outer join and materialized view. Through experiments using the TPC-DS, DBLP, and IMDB datasets, we have shown that \textit{ExtGraph} outperforms the state-of-the-art methods up to by 2.78x in terms of graph extraction time.