>> If a store has an index on my:hasUserID (and that index happens to be >> in SPARQL's defined order!) then results can be generated in ordered >> sequence. > > Do you mean, I can assume to get "ordered" results without explicit > "ORDER BY" in the query, given the appropriate index? independent from > the database implementation? In my current setting (Sesame with > NativeStore - default index spoc, posc) this is not the case. You can't assume anything about result order without including an ORDER BY clause for each column you care about. I was simply commenting on the relative expense of a query: an implementation with the right predicate-specific index (and a sufficiently smart planner) would -- in principle -- be able to generate ordered results more cheaply than one without such an index, simply by walking that index first. You still need to tell it to do so. Thanks, -RReceived on Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:08:05 GMT
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