Adding rdf:type ?type to my query slows it down a lot

[pheyvaer]

Issue type:

• 🐌 Performance issue

---

Description:

I have this query

PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>

SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE {
    ?s schema:contributor <https://data.knows.idlab.ugent.be/project/solidlab>.
  
  OPTIONAL {
    ?s schema:name ?name; rdf:type ?type
  }
}

which takes long to execute, at least more than 500s.
When I remove the rdf:type ?type from the OPTIONAL it takes around 21s.

PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>

SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE {
    ?s schema:contributor <https://data.knows.idlab.ugent.be/project/solidlab>.
  
  OPTIONAL {
    ?s schema:name ?name
  }
}

I used the online client.

---

Environment:

I used an online client.

[rubensworks]

Some notes from mattermost:

That's a consequence of the cMatch semantics for determining whether or not to follow links to other pods.

This one is faster: https://comunica.github.io/comunica-feature-link-traversal-web-clients/builds/solid-single-pod/