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Rewriting ontology-mediated navigational queries into cypher
TU Wien, Austria.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7742-0439
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. TU Wien, Austria.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2344-9658
2023 (English)In: Proceedings of the 36th international workshop on Description Logics (DL 2023) / [ed] Oliver Kutz; Carsten Lutz; Ana Ozaki, CEUR-WS , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The ontology-based data access (OBDA) paradigm has successfully grown over the last decade as a powerful means to access data from possibly diverse and incomplete sources, using a domain ontology as a mediator. The ability to query generic graph-structured data is often highlighted as an advantage of OBDA, but in practice, existing solutions do not allow to access data in popular graph database management systems (DBMS) (e.g., Neo4j) that adopt the so-called 'property graph' data model and support dedicated query languages such as Cypher. Towards overcoming this major limitation, we propose a technique for ontology-mediated querying (OMQ) of property graphs. We tailor a suitable query language that supports path navigation in a form that can be naturally expressed in Cypher and other important graph query languages. It keeps the data complexity of query evaluation tractable even under trail semantics and is sufficient for our motivating use case in the autonomous driving domain. We address the semantic gap between the traditional path semantics adopted by most works on graph databases, and the trail semantics used in Cypher, and identify cases where both semantics coincide. To our knowledge, OMQs with trail semantics had not been addressed before. We develop a rewriting algorithm for queries mediated by DL-Lite ontologies that enables query answering using plain Cypher. The experimental evaluation of our proof-of-concept prototype on a sample set of use case queries reveals that the approach is promising, and can be a stepping stone to making OBDA applicable to data stored in graph DBMS.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
CEUR-WS , 2023.
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CEUR workshop proceedings., E-ISSN 1613-0073 ; 3515
Keywords [en]
Graph databases, Ontology-based data access, Property graphs, Query rewriting
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Computer Sciences Computer Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-217217Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85176468627OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-217217DiVA, id: diva2:1816292
Conference
36th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2023, Rhodes, Greece, September 2-4, 2023
Available from: 2023-12-01 Created: 2023-12-01 Last updated: 2024-07-02Bibliographically approved

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