An analysis of SPARQL usage for information retrieval in heterogeneous domains through various tools.

SPARQL is a Query Language and a protocol popularly used in web semantics for the information retrieval. It is standard language declared by World Wide Web Consortium for resource description framework. Due to the exponential popularity of semantic web, bigdata, cloud computing, graph databases and linked open data, SPARQL Queries are playing a vital role in the stated domain for managing data with different aspects. This paper summarizes SPARQL usage in various domains touching the latest emerging technologies in computer science and various other fields. A brief analysis has been done of various tools on which SPARQL protocol can be executed for different purposes and it has been analyzed that using such protocols will generate tremendous results in different application areas towards integration of semantic web with different technologies like cloud computing, Linked Open Data (LOD) , Graph Databases and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]