ARQ - Internal Design

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ARQ consists of the following parts:

  • The SPARQL abstract syntax tree (AST) and the SPARQL parser

  • The algebra generator that turns SPARQL AST into algebra expressions

    • Implementation of the translation in the SPARQL specification.
    • Quad version compiling SPARQL to quad expressions, not basic graph patterns.
  • Query engines to execute queries

    • SPARQL protocol client - remote HTTP requests
    • Reference engine - direct implementation of the algebra
    • Quad engine - direct implementation of the algebra except
    • The main engine
    • TDB, a SPARQL database for large-sale persistent data
  • Result set handling for the SPARQL XML results format, the JSON and text versions.

Main packages

Package Use
org.apache.jena.query The application API
org.apache.jena.sparql.syntax Abstract syntax tree
org.apache.jena.sparql.algebra SPARQL algebra
org.apache.jena.sparql.lang The parsers: SPARQL, ARQ, RDQL
org.apache.jena.sparql.expr Expression code.
org.apache.jena.sparql.serializer Output in SPARQL, ARQ forms, in SPARQL syntax, in an abstract form (useful in debugging) and in XML.
org.apache.jena.sparql.engine The abstraction of a query engine.
org.apache.jena.sparql.engine.main The usual query engine.
org.apache.jena.sparql.engine.ref The reference query engine (and quad version)

Key Execution Classes

Bindings

Query Iterators

Context

ARQ documentation index