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RDF has seen increased adoption in recent years, prompting the standardization of the SPARQL query language for RDF, and the development of local and distributed engines for processing SPARQL queries. This survey paper provides a…

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As of today, there exists no standard language for querying Linked Data on the Web, where navigation across distributed data sources is a key feature. A natural candidate seems to be SPARQL, which recently has been enhanced with…

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Unstructured enterprise data such as reports, manuals and guidelines often contain tables. The traditional way of integrating data from these tables is through a two-step process of table detection/extraction and mapping the table layouts…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Mustafa Canim , Cristina Cornelio , Arun Iyengar , Ryan Musa , Mariano Rodrigez Muro

This work is done as part of a research master's thesis project. The goal is to generate SPARQL queries based on user-supplied keywords to query RDF graphs. To do this, we first transformed the input ontology into an RDF graph that reflects…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Emna Jabri

We introduce PathQuery, a graph query language developed to scale with Google's query and data volumes as well as its internal developer community. PathQuery supports flexible and declarative semantics. We have found that this enables query…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jesse Weaver , Eric Paniagua , Tushar Agarwal , Nicholas Guy , Alexandre Mattos

Querying knowledge bases using ontologies is usually performed using dedicated query languages, question-answering systems, or visual query editors for Knowledge Graphs. We propose a novel approach that enables users to query the knowledge…

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We consider the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) about RDF framework and its associated query language SPARQL. We propose a new formal framework based on category theory which provides clear and concise formal…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

PathDB is a Java-based graph database designed for in-memory data loading and querying. By utilizing Regular Path Queries (RPQ) and a closed path algebra, PathDB processes paths through its three main components: the parser, the logical…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Roberto García , Renzo Angles , Vicente Rojas , Sebastián Ferrada

How can we maximize the value of accumulated RDF data? Whereas the RDF data can be queried using the SPARQL language, even the SPARQL-based operation has a limitation in implementing traversal or analytical algorithms. Recently, a variety…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hirokazu Chiba , Ryota Yamanaka , Shota Matsumoto

Regular path queries (RPQs) the ubiquitous mechanism for querying data graphs of partially known structure. RPQs are in essence regular expressions over the edge symbols. The answer to an RPQ on a given graph (database) is the set of pairs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Gosta Grahne , Alex Thomo

The study of graph queries in database theory has spanned more than three decades, resulting in a multitude of proposals for graph query languages. These languages differ in the mechanisms. We can identify three main families of languages,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Michael Benedikt , Anthony Widjaja Lin , Di-De Yen

Modern graph database query languages such as GQL, SQL/PGQ, and their academic predecessor G-Core promote paths to first-class citizens in the sense that paths that match regular path queries can be returned to the user. This brings a…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Wim Martens , Matthias Niewerth , Tina Popp , Stijn Vansummeren , Domagoj Vrgoc

The scalability and exibility of Resource Description Framework(RDF) model make it ideally suited for representing online social networks(OSN). One basic operation in OSN is to find chains of relations,such as k-Hop friends. Property path…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Lei Gai , Wei Chen , Zhichao Xu , Changhe Qiu , Tengjiao Wang

We propose an efficient and scalable architecture for processing generalized graph-pattern queries as they are specified by the current W3C recommendation of the SPARQL 1.1 "Query Language" component. Specifically, the class of queries we…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Sairam Gurajada , Martin Theobald

We survey foundational features underlying modern graph query languages. We first discuss two popular graph data models: edge-labelled graphs, where nodes are connected by directed, labelled edges; and property graphs, where nodes and edges…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Renzo Angles , Marcelo Arenas , Pablo Barcelo , Aidan Hogan , Juan Reutter , Domagoj Vrgoc

Regular path queries (RPQ) is a classical navigational query formalism for graph databases to specify constraints on labeled paths. Recently, RPQs have been extended by Libkin and Vrgo$\rm \check{c}$ to incorporate data value comparisons…

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The FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles are fundamental for climate researchers and all stakeholders in the current digital ecosystem. In this paper, we demonstrate how relational climate data can be "FAIR"…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jiantao Wu , Huan Chen , Fabrizio Orlandi , Yee Hui Lee , Declan O'Sullivan , Soumyabrata Dev

The recent advancements of the Semantic Web and Linked Data have changed the working of the traditional web. There is significant adoption of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) format for saving of web-based data. This massive…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Waqas Ali , Muhammad Saleem , Bin Yao , Aidan Hogan , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Keyword search provides ordinary users an easy-to-use interface for querying RDF data. Given the input keywords, in this paper, we study how to assemble a query graph that is to represent user's query intention accurately and efficiently.…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Shuo Han , Lei Zou , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Dongyan Zhao

Data integration is one of the main problems in distributed data sources. An approach is to provide an integrated mediated schema for various data sources. This research work aims at developing a framework for defining an integrated schema…

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