# Expressive Reasoning Graph Store: A Unified Framework for Managing RDF and Property Graph Databases

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05828 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.05828/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Sep 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [The Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine and Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1508.03843/) (2015)
- [Reconciliation of RDF* and Property Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.3288/) (2014)
- [Mapping RDF Graphs to Property Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.01801/) (2018)
- [A Stitch in Time Saves Nine -- SPARQL querying of Property Graphs using Gremlin Traversals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.02911/) (2018)
- [Bernoulli Embeddings for Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.09211/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [OWL Reasoners still useable in 2023](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.06888/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Property Graph (PG) are the two most commonly used data models for representing, storing, and querying graph data. We present Expressive Reasoning Graph Store (ERGS) -- a graph store built on top of JanusGraph (a Property Graph store) that also allows storing and querying of RDF datasets. First, we describe how RDF data can be translated into a Property Graph representation and then describe a query translation module that converts SPARQL queries into a series of Gremlin traversals. The converters and translators thus developed can allow any Apache Tinkerpop compliant graph database to store and query RDF datasets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach using JanusGraph as the base Property Graph store and compare its performance with standard RDF systems.