SPARQL is what happens when you try to define an API for doing everything, from abstract principles, and end up with an API that does nothing.
It wraps your database in a worse database with a worse query language. It makes simple queries into kilobyte-long GET query strings that get morasses of XML-namespace nonsense as a response, or more likely, a server timeout.
While the W3C was screwing around with SPARQL, everyone else came up with JSON-based REST APIs. They work well. Not even the core W3C people use SPARQL anymore.
It wraps your database in a worse database with a worse query language. It makes simple queries into kilobyte-long GET query strings that get morasses of XML-namespace nonsense as a response, or more likely, a server timeout.
While the W3C was screwing around with SPARQL, everyone else came up with JSON-based REST APIs. They work well. Not even the core W3C people use SPARQL anymore.