[ANN] Sesame 2.4.0 with SPARQL 1.1 Query support

We are very proud to announce the release of Sesame 2.4.0. This is a 
major new release featuring support for SPARQL 1.1 Query.

Sesame 2.4.0 implements all features of SPARQL 1.1 Query as outlined in 
the October 14 W3C Working Draft, with the exception of basic federated 
query. SPARQL 1.1 for Sesame is developed by Ontotext in cooperation 
with Aduna.

The list of new SPARQL query features includes:

    - Use of expressions in the SELECT clause
    - Aggregates (COUNT, MIN, MAX, AVG, SUM, GROUP_CONCAT), HAVING
      and GROUP BY
    - Property paths
    - Subqueries
    - Negation: (NOT) EXISTS and MINUS
    - Set membership: (NOT) IN
    - Conditionals: IF
    - Various new builtin functions: COALESCE, BNODE, IRI,
      isNumeric, strLang, strDt

Apart from this impressive array of new query language features, Sesame 
2.4.0 also implements a number of bug fixes and improvements, including 
scalability and performance improvement in the Native store. For a full 
overview, see the release notes[1].

As always, the latest Sesame release and all relevant documentation can 
be found at http://www.openrdf.org/download.jsp.

Regards,

The Sesame development team

[1] 
http://www.openrdf.org/issues/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&styleName=Html&version=10500 

Received on Thursday, 19 May 2011 21:18:06 UTC