* A *SingleQuery* expression can be used to search for entities of a _Trait_ or _Class_.
Entities can be filtered based on a 'Where Clause' and Entity Attributes can be retrieved based on a 'Select Clause'.
* An Entity Graph can be traversed/joined by combining one or more SingleQueries.
* An attempt is made to make the expressions look SQL like by accepting keywords "SELECT",
"FROM", and "WHERE"; but these are optional and users can simply think in terms of Entity Graph Traversals.
* The transitive closure of an Entity relationship can be expressed via the _Loop_ expression. A
_Loop_ expression can be any traversal (recursively a query) that represents a _Path_ that ends in an Entity of the same _Type_ as the starting Entity.
* The _WithPath_ clause can be used with transitive closure queries to retrieve the Path that
connects the two related Entities. (We also provide a higher level interface for Closure Queries see scaladoc for 'org.apache.metadata.query.ClosureQuery')
* There are couple of Predicate functions different from SQL:
* _is_ or _isa_can be used to filter Entities that have a particular Trait.
* _has_ can be used to filter Entities that have a value for a particular Attribute.
---+++ DSL Examples
* from DB
* DB where name="Reporting" select name, owner
* DB has name
* DB is JdbcAccess
* Column where Column isa PII
* Table where name="sales_fact", columns
* Table where name="sales_fact", columns as column select column.name, column.dataType, column.comment
---++ Full-text Search
Atlas also exposes a lucene style full-text search capability.