Re: RDF query language

> 
> I just sent this reply to the rdf interest group list: I thought it
> might be worth posting it here as well, in case I've missed out lots of
> systems or got the details wrong.
> 

Edutella (edutella.jxta.org) includes a Query Exchange Language based
on Datalog semantics, called RDF-QEL-i (it's actually a family of
languages, but with one common semantics). It is described in a WWW'11
paper (see http://edutella.jxta.org/reports/edutella-whitepaper.pdf
for the preliminary version).

cheers,

Wolfgang

> cheers,
> 
> Libby
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 gt77@gmx.at wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I´m going to write my diploma thesis about evaluating different RDF-query
> > languages.  Therefore I would like to know, if someone can give me an brief
> > overview (or interesting links) about the most important and powerful query
> > languages (like redland or jena), which I should include in my thesis. Many
> > thanks in advance!
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > --
> > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
> > http://www.gmx.net
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Gerald. I think other people might have a better summary than I do,
> but I have a bunch of notes from something else I've been doing about a
> simple query language that I've been working on with Andy Seaborne
> called SquishQL, which is why I'm interested (see notes below, which
> are not comprehensive). You might also like to try
> www-rdf-rules@w3.org, which is the mailing list
> for rdf rules and query. Look at its archive:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-rules/
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by 'important and powerful' query langauges.
> There are a number of RDF management systems out there which include
> large databases and use query languages. Some don't have query
> languages, like Redland, but are still very useful and scalable. I've
> been using a simple RDF query language, because it meets my
> requirements.
> 
> Hope this helps anyway.
> 
> Libby
> 
> 
> Some RDF query languages have been in in use for several years.
> R.V. Guha's rdfDB query language [1] was the first of these (as far as I
> can tell) and is the basis for SquishQL. It is a simple graph-matching
> query language designed for use with the rdfDB system. It differs
> slighty syntactically from SquishQL and also does not contain the
> constraints on the variables used by SquishQL. It returns results as a
> table. rdfDB is written in C, I think.
> 
> Algae [2] is another early query language for RDF, written by Eric
> Prud'hommeaux of W3C in Perl. It uses an S-expression syntax to do graph
> matching. It can handle contraints of some kinds, I think. It is used to
> power the W3C's Annotea annotations system [3], and other software at
> the W3C. It's written in Perl, and can be used with an SQL database.
> 
> RQL [4] has a very different syntax, based on OQL, but can perform
> similar sorts of queries, with the added power of syntactic support for
> transitive closure on RDF subclass and subproperty. It is used by the
> Sesame system [5].
> 
> SquishQL is one of a number of query languages syntactically similar to
> rdfDB's. These include one by Geoff Chappell for RDFGateway [6], and one
> by David Allsopp [7]. RDFGateway QL is interesting because it is a
> simple query language over a database that can understand and process
> rules. David Allsopp's QL has syntactic support for regex path
> expressions.
> 
> There are a number of other query languages being created at the moment,
> including a DAML QL [8], Triple [9], RDFPath [10]. There a number of
> papers at QL98 that you might find helpful, including one by R.V.Guha et
> al [11] which heavily influenced SquishQL. It might also be worth
> looking at the notes from the RDF Query birds of a feather meeting last
> August [12].
> 
> I've been working on SquishQL, formerlly Squish[13], a simple SQL-ish
> RDF query language for a couple of years with Dan Brickley and also with
> Andy Seaborne of HP, who has done an implementation called RDQL[14] for
> Jena. I have an implementation called Inkling[15].
> 
> [1] http://web1.guha.com/rdfdb/query.html http://guha.com/rdfdb/
> 
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/Talks/0505-perl-RDF-lib/slide8-0.html
> 
> http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/08/rdfquery-bof/
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/User/Protocol.html
> 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/User/Algae-HOWTO.html (BNF)
> 
> http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/488/
> 
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
> 
> [4] A paper on RQL
>        http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/RDF/RQL/rql.html
>        BNF
>        http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/RQL/bnf.html
>        RQL tutorial
>        http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/
> 
> [5]
>        http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/
> 
> 
> [6]
> http://www.intellidimension.com/RDFGateway/Docs/rdfqlgettingstarted.asp
> 
> [7] http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/08/rdfquery-bof/
>           http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper10.pdf
> 
> [8] http://www.ai.sri.com/daml/notes/HW2/SemanticWeb/paper.html
>        http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/0572.html
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Sep/0016.html
>        http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/test/dpoq22Aug/query-answer.daml
>        http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/0598.html
> 
> - probably more by now...
> 
> [9]
> 
> http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/0673.html
>           http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/frodo/triple/
> 
> [10] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rdfpath/
> 
> 
> [11] http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/enabling.html
> 
> [12] http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/08/rdfquery-bof/
> 
> [13] http://ilrt.org/discovery/2000/10/swsql/
> 
> [14] http://hpl.hp.com/semweb/
> 
> [15] http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/
> 
> 


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Wolfgang Nejdl

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