OBDA Constraints for Effective Query Answering (Extended Version) [article]

Dag Hovland and Davide Lanti and Martin Rezk and Guohui Xiao
2016 arXiv   pre-print
In Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) users pose SPARQL queries over an ontology that lies on top of relational datasources. These queries are translated on-the-fly into SQL queries by OBDA systems. Standard SPARQL-to-SQL translation techniques in OBDA often produce SQL queries containing redundant joins and unions, even after a number of semantic and structural optimizations. These redundancies are detrimental to the performance of query answering, especially in complex industrial OBDA
more » ... with large enterprise databases. To address this issue, we introduce two novel notions of OBDA constraints and show how to exploit them for efficient query answering. We conduct an extensive set of experiments on large datasets using real world data and queries, showing that these techniques strongly improve the performance of query answering up to orders of magnitude.
arXiv:1605.04263v2 fatcat:dfwlu3kw6jdfhex5arippjq354