Glenn,
You can actually issue SPARQL with timeouts. Do you not remember the
conversation about partial aggregates in ad-hoc queries using SPARQL
or SQL? That's what I am talking about. What we call "Anytime Query"
[1] as a critical technique for ad-hoc queries at infinite scale [2].
Missing Links re the comment above:
1.
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/whitepapers/SPARQL%20and%20Scalable%20Inference%20on%20Demand.html
- Anytime Query Feature
2. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/whitepapers/Web-Scale%20RDF.html -
Towards Web-Scale RDF
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Kingsley Idehen
President& CEO
OpenLink Software
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