SPARQL is an RDF query language—that is, a semantic query language for databases—able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is recognized as one of the key technologies of the semantic web. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL 1.0 was acknowledged by W3C as an official recommendation, and SPARQL 1.1 in March, 2013. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2008
Developed by: Carlos Buil Aranda • Eric G. Prud'hommeaux
Aliases: SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language, Simple Protocol RDF Query Language, SPARQL Query Language

Wikidata: Q54871

Influenced: Gremlin • Shape Expressions

Influenced by: SQL

Programming paradigms: declarative programming

Language types: RDF query language

SELECT ?h WHERE { 
  VALUES ?h { "Hello World" } 
}