Querying Semantic Web Data with SPARQL
Summary: Tutorial/survey of RDF and SPARQL framed for database researchers, highlighting core challenges: open-world semantics leading to incomplete/partial answers and OPTIONAL, graph/interlinked data demanding navigational/property-path queries, and Web-scale execution. Emphasizes theoretical problems and implementation techniques needed to build solid database foundations for querying the Semantic Web. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Marcelo Arenas
- 2. Jorge Pérez
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,040 | Querying Graph Databases | 2013 | PODS | 0.00014483577 |
| 1,977 | Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs | 2012 | SIGMOD | 9.8780062e-05 |
| 3,659 | The Complexity of Evaluating Path Expressions in SPARQL | 2012 | PODS | 6.8684407e-05 |
| 4,019 | Efficient Evaluation and Approximation of Well-designed Pattern Trees | 2015 | PODS | 6.521716e-05 |
| 4,201 | Static Analysis and Optimization of Semantic Web Queries | 2012 | PODS | 6.3588034e-05 |
| 6,846 | TriAL for RDF: Adapting Graph Query Languages for RDF Data | 2013 | PODS | 4.9042778e-05 |
| 7,758 | Containment and Equivalence of Well-Designed SPARQL | 2014 | PODS | 4.6554272e-05 |
| 11,836 | Designing a Query Language for RDF: Marrying Open and Closed Worlds | 2016 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,928 | Left Bit Right: For SPARQL Join Queries with OPTIONAL Patterns (Left-outer-joins) | 2015 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,151 | SPAM: A SPARQL Analysis and Manipulation Tool | 2012 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,445 | Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00011937596 |
| 1,601 | Formal Models of Web Queries | 1997 | PODS | 0.00011197057 |
| 1,812 | Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data | 2010 | PODS | 0.00010458164 |
| 4,014 | A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML | 2001 | PODS | 6.5300582e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13,436 | Natural Language Question Answering over RDF Data | 2013 | SIGMOD | - |
| 657 | An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00018581389 |
| 3,684 | SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example | 2016 | VLDB | 6.8399983e-05 |
| 4,201 | Static Analysis and Optimization of Semantic Web Queries | 2012 | PODS | 6.3588034e-05 |
| 12,501 | The Logic of RDF and SPARQL: a tutorial | 2006 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 9,057 | Semantic SPARQL Similarity Search Over RDF Knowledge Graphs | 2016 | VLDB | 4.3997447e-05 |
| 587 | Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00019623493 |
| 9,738 | Expressive Languages for Querying the Semantic Web | 2014 | PODS | 4.2895392e-05 |
| 12,377 | Effective and Efficient Semantic Web Data Management over DB2 | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 3,285 | Foundations of Semantic Web Databases | 2004 | PODS | 7.2738104e-05 |