Re: A Comparison of RDF Query Languages

There's only a Python implementation but the plan is to write an RxPath 
to Squish/RDQL converter. At that point it could interact with Jena via 
some RPC mechanism (or by porting it to Jython)

-- adam

Stephane Fellah wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This is an interesting query language. Does it exist an implementation in Java (based on Jena for example) ?
>
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> 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Souzis [mailto:adam-l@souzis.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:47 PM
>To: Andreas Eberhart
>Cc: daml-all@daml.org; ontoweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at; ontoweb-language-sig@cs.man.ac.uk; public-rdf-dawg@w3.org; semanticweb@yahoogroups.com; seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at; www-webont-wg@w3.org; www-rdf-interest@w3.org; www-rdf-logic@w3.org; www-rdf-rules@w3.org; Raphael Volz; pha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de; jbroeks@cs.vu.nl
>Subject: Re: A Comparison of RDF Query Languages
>
>
>This is an useful comparison but one query language missing is RxPath 
>(http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxPath) -- so below are RxPath queries 
>for each of your use cases.
>
>RxPath is syntatically identical to XPath 1.0 and is defined by a 
>deterministic mapping from the RDF model to XPath data model. Its 
>specification is available at  http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxPathSpec 
>(BTW, I'll be releasing a new version of the software next week.)
>
>Based on the metric described in the conclusion of your paper, it's more 
>complete than any of the languages surveyed, supporting 12 out of the 14 
>use cases. Also, the same mapping (with minor changes) could be applied 
>to map RDF models to the XPath 2.0/XQuery data model, the resulting 
>query language would address most of the items on your wishlist, 
>including aggregation, sorting, and full support for XML Schema datatypes.
>
>-- adam
>
>1. Path Expression
>Return the names of the authors of publication X.
>
>/*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*/name
>
>2 Optional Path
>Return the name and, if known, the e-mail of the author of publication X.
>
>/*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*/name | /*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*/email
>
>(Note: RxPath doesn't support tuples, but each email will follow each 
>author's name because the union is returned in "document" order.)
>
>3 union
>Return the labels of all topics that and (union) the titles of all 
>publications.
>
>/*/rdfs:label | /*/rdfs:title
>
>4 difference
>Return the labels of all topics that are not titles of publications.
>
>/*/rdfs:label[. != /*/rdfs:title]
>
>5 Quantification
>Return the persons who are authors of all publications.
>
>Not Supported.
>
>6 Aggregation
>Count the number of authors of a publication.
>
>count(/*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*)
>
>7 Recursion
>Return all subtopics of topic "Information Systems", recursively.
>
>/*[.='http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/pha/rdf-query/sample.rdf#ACMTopic/Information_Systems']//acm:subTopic/*
>
>8 Reification
>Return the person who has classified the publication X.
>
>/*[. =/*[.='X']/isAbout/@rdf:ID]/dc:creator/*
>
>9 Collections and Containers
>Return the first author of Publication X.
>
>(/*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*)[1]
>
>Unlike the languages you surveyed, RxPath has syntatic support
>for RDF containers and collections so you can get the last author too:
>
>(/*[.='X']/author/*/rdf:li/*)[last()]
>
>10 Namespace
>Return all resources whose namespace starts with 
>"http://aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/".
>
>Assuming there's a namespace declaration with the prefix 'aifb':
>
>/aifb:*
>
>or for any arbitrary URI prefix:
>
>/*[starts-with(., "http://aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/")]
>
>11 Language
>Return the German label of the topic whose English label is "Database 
>Management".
>
>/*[rdfs:label = 'Database Management']/rdfs:label[@xml:lang='de']
>
>12 Lexical Space
>Return all publications where the page number is the lexical value '08'.
>
>/Publication[pages = '08']
>
>13 Value Space
>Return all publications where the page number is the integer value 8.
>
>/Publication[pages = 8]
>
>Note: In XPath 1.0 type coercion is automatic but it only supports 
>numbers and strings.
>
>14 Entailment
>Return all instances of that are members of the class Publication.
>
>/Publication
>
>(No special support for entailed vs. ground assertions, inference is up 
>to the implementation.)
>
>Andreas Eberhart wrote:
>
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>
>>Related to the recent work of the RDF Data Access Working Group [1], we have
>>compared six proposals for RDF query languages. The report, the use case
>>data, and the queries are available online [2].
>>
>>Looking forward to hearing your feedback.
>>
>>Peter Haase, Andreas Eberhart, Raphael Volz, Institute AIFB, University of
>>Karlsruhe
>>Jeen Broekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
>>
>>
>>[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
>>[2] http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/pha/rdf-query/
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