arXiv cs.AIPaper
Relational-Core Graph Analytics Querying graphs at SQL scale, and why the node/edge model is a performance tax, not a truer picture of connected data
The argument is sound: reconstructing graph relationships at query time is wasteful if they already exist in foreign keys. But this is infrastructure optimization, not a capability shift. For teams already committed to a lakehouse stack, this could save money. For everyone else, it's an architectural observation, not a reason to move.