Ontop is a platform to query relational databases as Virtual RDF Knowledge Graphs using SPARQL
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Ontop is a Virtual Knowledge Graph system.
It exposes the content of arbitrary relational databases as knowledge graphs. These graphs are virtual, which means that data remains in the data sources instead of being moved to another database.
Ontop translates SPARQL queries expressed over the knowledge graphs into SQL queries executed by the relational data sources. It relies on R2RML mappings and can take advantage of lightweight ontologies.
The project is a Maven project. Compiling,
running the unit tests, building the release binaries all can be done
using Maven. Currently, we use Maven 3.6+ and Java 11 to build the
project.
The Ontop framework is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Copyright (C) 2009 - 2025 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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All documentation is licensed under the
Creative Commons
(attribute) license.
Ontop is backed by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ontopic s.r.l..
It also receives regular important contributions from Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Bergen.