To some extent it will depend on the dataset implementation in use, but the two most likely are TDB and TIM (transactional in-memory) and for either of those, there is no particular hit. Both use covering indexes that include orderings to prevent that.
If you are using some other (not core Jena) dataset implementation, it will depend on the specifics. --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Apr 16, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com> wrote: > > If I query my dataset as "SELECT * FROM <some-graph> ...", is there a > performance hit if <some-graph> is in the same dataset with many (10s or > 100s, more?) other graphs? Or is this fact completely irrelevant?