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 (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 2. Jorge Pérez (University of Chile)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{arenas_pods11,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '11},
title = {{Querying Semantic Web Data with SPARQL}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989312},
doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989312},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Arenas, Marcelo and Pérez, Jorge},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 719 | Querying Graph Databases | 2013 | PODS | 0.00014493767 |
| 1,847 | Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs | 2012 | SIGMOD | 9.5053324e-05 |
| 3,483 | The Complexity of Evaluating Path Expressions in SPARQL | 2012 | PODS | 7.2450764e-05 |
| 3,534 | Efficient Evaluation and Approximation of Well-designed Pattern Trees | 2015 | PODS | 7.2048261e-05 |
| 3,637 | Static Analysis and Optimization of Semantic Web Queries | 2012 | PODS | 7.1261366e-05 |
| 5,964 | Containment and Equivalence of Well-Designed SPARQL | 2014 | PODS | 5.914608e-05 |
| 7,572 | TriAL for RDF: Adapting Graph Query Languages for RDF Data | 2013 | PODS | 5.4773124e-05 |
| 8,292 | Designing a Query Language for RDF: Marrying Open and Closed Worlds | 2016 | PODS | 5.3441107e-05 |
| 12,461 | Left Bit Right: For SPARQL Join Queries with OPTIONAL Patterns (Left-outer-joins) | 2015 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 12,679 | SPAM: A SPARQL Analysis and Manipulation Tool | 2012 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,474 | Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data | 2010 | PODS | 0.00010526746 |
| 1,592 | Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 0.0001010713 |
| 1,925 | Formal Models of Web Queries | 1997 | PODS | 9.3502949e-05 |
| 4,281 | A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML | 2001 | PODS | 6.6721591e-05 |
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