Warning: This document is for an old version of RDFox. The latest version is 7.4.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• 1. Welcome to RDFox
  • 1.1. How to Read this Documentation
• 2. RDFox Features and Requirements
  • 2.1. RDFox Features
  • 2.2. Software Archive
  • 2.3. Interfaces
  • 2.4. System Requirements
• 3. Getting Started
  • 3.1. Setup
  • 3.2. Tutorial (Web Console version)
  • 3.3. Tutorial (Shell version)
  • 3.4. Tutorial (REST version)
  • 3.5. Next Steps

Organization of Data

• 4. Servers
  • 4.1. Data Stores
  • 4.2. Roles
  • 4.3. Server Parameters
• 5. Data Stores
  • 5.1. Operations on Data Stores
  • 5.2. Organization of Data
  • 5.3. Supported Data Types for Literals
  • 5.4. Data Store Configuration
• 6. Tuple Tables
  • 6.1. Types of Tuple Tables
  • 6.2. Fact Domains
  • 6.3. Managing and Using Tuple Tables
  • 6.4. In-Memory Tuple Tables
  • 6.5. Built-In Tuple Tables
• 7. Data Sources
  • 7.1. Registering Data Sources
  • 7.2. Creating Data Source Tuple Tables
  • 7.3. Data Sources and Incremental Reasoning

Functionality

• 8. Import and Export
  • 8.1. Data Store Content Formats
  • 8.2. Import
  • 8.3. Export
  • 8.4. Access Control
• 9. Querying
  • 9.1. SPARQL 1.1 Support
  • 9.2. Built-In Functions
  • 9.3. Aggregate Functions
  • 9.4. Querying Tuple Tables
  • 9.5. Distinguishing Explicit and Derived Facts in Queries
  • 9.6. Monitoring Query Evaluation
  • 9.7. Access Control
• 10. Reasoning
  • 10.1. Rule Languages
  • 10.2. Materialization-Based Reasoning
  • 10.3. Restrictions on Rule Sets
  • 10.4. The Rule Language of RDFox
  • 10.5. Common Uses of Rules in Practice
  • 10.6. OWL 2 Support in RDFox
  • 10.7. SWRL Support in RDFox
  • 10.8. Explaining Reasoning Results
  • 10.9. Monitoring Reasoning in RDFox
  • 10.10. Querying the Explicitly given Data
• 11. Transactions
  • 11.1. Types of Transactions
  • 11.2. Concurrent Execution of Transactions
  • 11.3. Explicit and Implicit Transactions
  • 11.4. Recoverable and Non-recoverable Errors Within Read/Write Transactions
  • 11.5. Constraining Data Store Content
  • 11.6. Commit Procedure (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • 11.7. Delta Queries
• 12. Access Control
  • 12.1. Key Concepts
  • 12.2. Role Manager
  • 12.3. Authentication Managers
  • 12.4. Other Authentication Pathways
  • 12.5. Securing an RDFox Server
  • 12.6. Example Access Control Policies
• 13. Persistence
  • 13.1. The Server Directory
  • 13.2. Configuration

Interfaces

• 14. Connections
• 15. RDFox Shell
  • 15.1. Connection Management
  • 15.2. Shell Commands
  • 15.3. Shell Variables
  • 15.4. Script Execution
  • 15.5. Error Handling
• 16. APIs
  • 16.1. Basics of the Java API
  • 16.2. Basics of the RESTful API
  • 16.3. Managing Servers
  • 16.4. Managing Data Stores
  • 16.5. Managing Data Store Properties
  • 16.6. Managing Data Store Prefixes
  • 16.7. Managing Delta Queries
  • 16.8. Managing the Commit Procedure
  • 16.9. Managing Data Store Content
  • 16.10. Managing Data Sources
  • 16.11. Managing Tuple Tables
  • 16.12. Managing Statistics
  • 16.13. Evaluating Queries
  • 16.14. Working with Transactions
  • 16.15. Cursors
  • 16.16. Explaining Fact Derivation
  • 16.17. Handling Concurrent Updates
  • 16.18. Managing Roles
  • 16.19. Checking Endpoint Health
  • 16.20. Remote Shell Execution
• 17. Javadoc

Operations Manual

• 18. RDFox Executable
  • 18.1. sandbox
  • 18.2. analyze
  • 18.3. init
  • 18.4. upgrade
  • 18.5. daemon
  • 18.6. shell
  • 18.7. remote
  • 18.8. service
• 19. RDFox Endpoint
  • 19.1. Starting and Stopping the Endpoint
  • 19.2. Endpoint Parameters
• 20. Logging
  • 20.1. API Logging
  • 20.2. HTTP Request Logging
• 21. High Availability
  • 21.1. Characteristics
  • 21.2. Recommended Deployment Steps
  • 21.3. Suggested Approaches to Load Balancing
• 22. RDFox Docker Images
  • 22.1. Image Defaults
  • 22.2. Suggested Mounts
  • 22.3. Example Docker Run Commands
  • 22.4. Checking the Health of RDFox Containers

Information

• Release Notes
• Security Advisories
• Acknowledgments