Unfortunately, a glaring hole in SPARQL is lack of add or update
capability. Jena (http://jena.sourceforge.net), the framework
sponsored by HP Labs, includes an implementation of a proposed update
language for SPARQL - see http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ/update.html.
The other major framework for RDF is Sesame (http://openrdf.org), and
they appear to emphasize their own propietary language (SeRQL) that is
considerably more powerful, but only supported by Sesame. All the
same, semantic web technology is worth keeping an eye on, even if it
is still in its infancy.
;; Gary
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Russ Abbott wrote:
But they give up SQL in the process. Now, I've always thought SQL
was ugly. But at least its declarative.
I believe many of these graph database / triple store packages
support SPARQL..
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
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