  Property graphs are a common form of linked data, with path queries used to
traverse and explore them for enterprise transactions and mining. Temporal
property graphs are a recent variant where time is a first-class entity to be
queried over, and their properties and structure vary over time. These are seen
in social, telecom, transit and epidemic networks. However, current graph
databases and query engines have limited support for temporal relations among
graph entities, no support for time-varying entities and/or do not scale on
distributed resources. We address this gap by extending a linear path query
model over property graphs to include intuitive temporal predicates and
aggregation operators over temporal graphs. We design a distributed execution
model for these temporal path queries using the interval-centric computing
model, and develop a novel cost model to select an efficient execution plan
from several. We perform detailed experiments of our Granite distributed query
engine using both static and dynamic temporal property graphs as large as 52M
vertices, 218M edges and 325M properties, and a 1600-query workload, derived
from the LDBC benchmark. We often offer sub-second query latencies on a
commodity cluster, which is 149x-1140x faster compared to industry-leading
Neo4J shared-memory graph database and the JanusGraph / Spark distributed graph
query engine. Granite also completes 100% of the queries for all graphs,
compared to only 32-92% workload completion by the baseline systems. Further,
our cost model selects a query plan that is within 10% of the optimal execution
time in 90% of the cases. Despite the irregular nature of graph processing, we
exhibit a weak-scaling efficiency >= 60% on 8 nodes and >= 40% on 16 nodes, for
most query workloads.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing;Databases