Résumé | A graph database is a directed graph where each edge is additionally labeled with a symbol from a finite alphabet. Several data models, such as the ones occurring in the Semantic Web or semi-structured data, can be naturally captured via graph databases. In this context, one is not only interested in traditional queries, such as conjunctive queries, but also in navigational queries that take the topology of the data into account.
In this talk, we consider one of the most prominent navigational query languages, namely, the class of conjunctive regular path queries (CRPQs). This class extends the class of conjunctive queries with the ability of checking the existence of a path between two nodes, whose label matches a given regular expression. As in the case of conjunctive queries, evaluating CRPQs is an NP-complete problem. We present some results about tractable restrictions of CRPQs, as well as several open problems. |