Query with experimental SPARQL features

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    Comunica SPARQL Next offers non-standardized SPARQL features within Comunica.

    1. Installation

    Since Comunica runs on Node.js, make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine.

    Next, we can install Comunica SPARQL Next on our machine:

    $ npm install -g @comunica/query-sparql-next

    Features

    This "next" version supports the same features as @comunica/query-sparql (see the other documentation pages on this website), adding additional language features ontop of it. This means we support SPARQL 1.2 and additional language features listed bellow.

    Comunica SPARQL Next is built on the same foundation as base Comunica. This means that we package a default configuration, but you are free to package your own version of the engine, adding or removing features as you please (see [Modify Comunica](https://comunica.dev/docs/modify/) for more information).
    We are activelly adding features to this feature repository, see the repository for updates: https://github.com/comunica/comunica-feature-next/pulls

    Learn more

    This guide only discusses the basic functionality of comunica-sparql-next. You can learn more options by invoking the help command, or by reading the Comunica SPARQL documentation:

    $ comunica-sparql-next --help

    The API for querying using non-standardized SPARQL in JavaScript apps is identical to Comunica SPARQL, and just requires importing @comunica/query-sparql-next instead of @comunica/query-sparql.

    In order to set up a SPARQL endpoint, comunica-sparql-next-http can be used, just like Comunica SPARQL.

    Contribution

    The "next" version is maintained in its own feature repository: comunica-feature-next.