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Design Evaluations Links

by KC with DanC
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see also: Questionnaire

We're working on formalizing these data. See design-eval.n3, design-eval.rdf and email discussion.

SeRQL

Evaluation by Andy Seaborne

RDQL

Evaluation by Eric Prud’hommeaux

Steve Harris points out that 3+ implementations of RDQL support quads

Alberto Reggiori follows up with useful info re: the utility of quads

Eric Prud’hommeaux describes how he implemented something functionally equivalent in Algae2

Comments by Alberto Reggiori, in response to Eric Prud’hommeaux’s eval of RDQL

Joseki (protocol)

Evaluation by Bryan Thompson

REX

Evaluation by Rob Shearer

Responses to questions about REX

More responses to questions about REX

More responses to questions about REX

iTQL

Evaluation by Kendall Clark

Clarifications, corrections by Simon Raboczi

Algae2

Evaluation by Dave Beckett

TriQL

Evaluation by Yoshio FUKUSHIGE

XSRQL

Evaluation 1 July by Andy S.

ref: Howard Katz’s XsRQL

Stuff that should or will be evaluated:

BRQL (includes self-eval)

Versa

Summary

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Designs vs Requirements
SeRQL Algae2 TriQL XSRQL
RDQL BRQL
Evaluation(s) by AndyS by Dave Beckett by Yoshio FUKUSHIGE 1 July by Andy S. by EricP self-eval

3.1 RDF Graph Pattern Matching

+ + + + + +
3.2 Variable Binding Results + + + -? + +
3.3 Extensible Value Testing - - - - - +
3.4 Subgraph Results + - +? -? - +
3.5 Local Queries + + + + + +
3.6 Optional Match + + - + - +
3.7 Limited Datatype Support + + + +? + +
3.8 Bookmarkable Queries + ? - + -
3.10 Result Limits - - - - - +
3.11 Iterative Query - - N/A
3.12 Streamability + - +?
4.1 Human-friendly Syntax + - + + +
4.2 Provenance - + + -? -* +
4.3 Non-existent Triples - - + - +
4.4 User-specifiable Serialization - - N/A -
4.5 Aggregate Query - + + - -
4.6 Additional Semantic Information +* - - + -
4.7 Bandwidth-efficient Protocol - - N/A
4.8 Literal Search - + -?
4.9 Boolean Query - - +