3.2.11 Miscellaneous predicates

This section describes the remaining predicates of the library(semweb/rdf_db) module.

rdf_bnode(-Id)

Generate a unique anonymous identifier for a subject.

[nondet]rdf_source_location(+Subject, -Location)

True when triples for Subject are loaded from Location.

Location

is a term File:Line.

[det]rdf_generation(-Generation)

True when Generation is the current generation of the database. Each modification to the database increments the generation. It can be used to check the validity of cached results deduced from the database. Committing a non-empty transaction increments the generation by one.

When inside a transaction, Generation is unified to a term TransactionStartGen + InsideTransactionGen. E.g., 4+3 means that the transaction was started at generation 4 of the global database and we have created 3 new generations inside the transaction. Note that this choice of representation allows for comparing generations using Prolog arithmetic. Comparing a generation in one transaction with a generation in another transaction is meaningless.

rdf_estimate_complexity(?Subject, ?Predicate, ?Object, -Complexity)

Return the number of alternatives as indicated by the database internal hashed indexing. This is a rough measure for the number of alternatives we can expect for an rdf_has/3 call using the given three arguments. When called with three variables, the total number of triples is returned. This estimate is used in query optimisation. See also rdf_predicate_property/2 and rdf_statistics/1 for additional information to help optimizers.

[nondet]rdf_statistics(?KeyValue)

Obtain statistics on the RDF database. Defined statistics are:

graphs(-Count)

Number of named graphs

triples(-Count)

Total number of triples in the database. This is the number of asserted triples minus the number of retracted ones. The number of visible triples in a particular context may be different due to visibility rules defined by the logical update view and transaction isolation.

resources(-Count)

Number of resources that appear as subject or object in a triple. See rdf_resource/1.

properties(-Count)

Number of current predicates. See rdf_current_predicate/1.

literals(-Count)

Number of current literals. See rdf_current_literal/1.

gc(GCCount, ReclaimedTriples, ReindexedTriples, Time)

Information about the garbage collector.

searched_nodes(-Count)

Number of nodes expanded by rdf_reachable/3 and rdf_reachable/5.

lookup(rdf(S,P,O,G), Count)

Number of queries for this particular instantiation pattern. Each of S,P,O,G is either + or -.

hash_quality(rdf(S,P,O,G), Buckets, Quality, PendingResize)

Statistics on the index for this pattern. Indices are created lazily on the first relevant query.

triples_by_graph(Graph, Count)

This statistics is produced for each named graph. See triples for the interpretation of this value.

[semidet]rdf_match_label(+How, +Pattern, +Label)

True if Label matches Pattern according to How. How is one of icase, substring, word, prefix or like. For backward compatibility, exact is a synonym for icase.

[semidet]lang_matches(+Lang, +Pattern)

True if Lang matches Pattern. This implements XML language matching conform RFC 4647. Both Lang and Pattern are dash-separated strings of identifiers or (for Pattern) the wildcart *. Identifiers are matched case-insensitive and a * matches any number of identifiers. A short pattern is the same as *.

[semidet]lang_equal(+Lang1, +Lang2)

True if two RFC language specifiers denote the same language

See also

lang_matches/2.

rdf_reset_db

Remove all triples from the RDF database and reset all its statistics.

bug

This predicate checks for active queries, but this check is not properly synchronized and therefore the use of this predicate is unsafe in multi-threaded contexts. It is mainly used to run functionality tests that need to start with an empty database.

[det]rdf_version(-Version)

True when Version is the numerical version-id of this library. The version is computed as

Major*10000 + Minor*100 + Patch.