Views: a hardware-friendly graph database model for storing semantic information

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Yanjun, Wheeldon, Adrian, Pan, Yihan, Prodromakis, Themis, Serb, Alex
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author Yang, Yanjun
Wheeldon, Adrian
Pan, Yihan
Prodromakis, Themis
Serb, Alex
author_facet Yang, Yanjun
Wheeldon, Adrian
Pan, Yihan
Prodromakis, Themis
Serb, Alex
contents The graph database (GDB) is an increasingly common storage model for data involving relationships between entries. Beyond its widespread usage in database industries, the advantages of GDBs indicate a strong potential in constructing symbolic artificial intelligences (AIs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where knowledge of data inter-relationships takes a critical role in implementation. However, current GDB models are not optimised for hardware acceleration, leading to bottlenecks in storage capacity and computational efficiency. In this paper, we propose a hardware-friendly GDB model, called Views. We show its data structure and organisation tailored for efficient storage and retrieval of graph data and demonstrate its functional equivalence and storage performance advantage compared to represent traditional graph representations. We further demonstrate its symbolic processing abilities in semantic reasoning and cognitive modelling with practical examples and provide a short perspective on future developments.
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spellingShingle Views: a hardware-friendly graph database model for storing semantic information
Yang, Yanjun
Wheeldon, Adrian
Pan, Yihan
Prodromakis, Themis
Serb, Alex
Databases
Hardware Architecture
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Symbolic Computation
The graph database (GDB) is an increasingly common storage model for data involving relationships between entries. Beyond its widespread usage in database industries, the advantages of GDBs indicate a strong potential in constructing symbolic artificial intelligences (AIs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where knowledge of data inter-relationships takes a critical role in implementation. However, current GDB models are not optimised for hardware acceleration, leading to bottlenecks in storage capacity and computational efficiency. In this paper, we propose a hardware-friendly GDB model, called Views. We show its data structure and organisation tailored for efficient storage and retrieval of graph data and demonstrate its functional equivalence and storage performance advantage compared to represent traditional graph representations. We further demonstrate its symbolic processing abilities in semantic reasoning and cognitive modelling with practical examples and provide a short perspective on future developments.
title Views: a hardware-friendly graph database model for storing semantic information
topic Databases
Hardware Architecture
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Symbolic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18123