Re: contrasing SPARQL Federation + DM/R2RML vs. SQL federation tools

* Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> [2012-02-13 10:19-0600]
> Eric,
> 
> In SQL Server, there is a feature called Distributed Query that can join
> heterogeneous data sources, including joining Oracle data and a text file
> in a single SQL Server query.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188721.aspx

That gave me a bit of marketecture, but do you know how to use the system? I can imagine a couple ways it could work:

1. Configuration maps schema names to remote database endpoints. User queries join tables with explicit schema names to connect disparate databases.

2. User queries are expressed in an SQL-like language with extra productions to target joins against particular databases.

3. Configuration created a virtual warehouse in a single schema. User queries against this warehouse/view are re-written to connect to the remote database.


> I'm giving the Linked Data tutorial at semtech. If our tutorials don't
> overlap, I could help you out with this.

Excellent -- tx.


> Juan Sequeda
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> www.juansequeda.com
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm giving a talk at SemTech which I'm lead to believe will cover SPARQL
> > over SQL databases. One of the motivators for the SemWeb is that we get to
> > connect everything to everything, including e.g. sets of SQL DBs. The
> > relational world has some tooling for the latter case, e.g. "Oracle
> > Database Streams" and "SQL Server Integration Services". What do y'all know
> > about them? It could help some audience members if I were able to contrast
> > existing SQL tooling against SPARQL over DB-backed RDF graphs.
> >
> > --
> > -ericP
> >
> >

-- 
-ericP

Received on Monday, 13 February 2012 18:01:38 UTC