SPARQL Query Processing with Conventional Relational Database Systems

Harris

sparql rdf semantic web owl db query processing reasoning

@inproceedings{harris:iwsswkbs-2005,
  author={Steve Harris},
  title={{SPARQL} Query Processing with Conventional
         Relational Database Systems},
  booktitle={International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web
             Knowledge Base Systems},
  year={2005},
  pages={235--244}
}

Describes a simple approach to processing the majority of SPARQL queries over a relatively straightforward RDF database scheme

Tries to push as much of logic as possible into the DB query system

• As opposed to other SPARQL systems such as Redland

Break query down into components, then combine & filter result sets to handle aspects not handled well in DB

Some interesting minor notes on things like hashing URIs, etc for faster matching