RDF data stores from Art Barstow on 2001-04-19 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from April 2001) (original) (raw)

About one year ago Sergey Melnik created a table to "summarize some current approaches to storing RDF in a relational database":

http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/db.html

Since then, there have been several announcements on this mail list regarding RDF stores. To consolidate information about the various systems used to store RDF, I would like to compile a list of RDF storage systems and then for each system, gather some useful data about the system.

Attached is a list of RDF/triple storage systems. If a system is missing, send its name and a URI where there is more info about the system.

Authors/owners (of the items on the list or items missing from the list) - please consider describing your system with some or all of the following metrics and feel free to add other metrics or useful information:

o Scalability (any limits?)

o Performance

o Provenance support

o Inference support (forward/backward chaining) & expressiveness of the deductive query language

o Licensing issues (e.g. GPL)

o Concurrency and transaction support (real transactions?, full roll back? journalling?)

o API issues (e.g. range of language bindings available)

o Query (language used, etc.)

o Platform issues - (e.g. Unix, Linux, Windows etc.)

o Support for distribution (e.g. federation, replication etc.)

Also attached is a list of related papers/systems. Additions to this list are welcome.

If there is interest, I will put this info on the W3C's web site and try to maintain it.

Art

RDF stores:

RDFStore Perl API for RDF Storage http://xml.jrc.it/RDFStore/

ICS-FORTH RDFSuite http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/

RDF Gateway http://www.intellidimension.com/RDFGateway/release1.asp

Fourthought http://fourthought.com/4SuiteServer/

rdfDB : An RDF Database http://web1.guha.com/rdfdb/

Redland http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/docs/api/storage.html

PEARS (OCLC): http://orc.rsch.oclc.org:6109/pears/

Tristarp http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cosns/report.html

RDF Crawler - University of Karlsruhe http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/rdfcrawl/help/specification.html

W3C RDF db http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/Distribution.html

Other papers/systems:

A Performance Evaluation of Alternative Mapping Schemes for Storing XML Data in a Relational Database http://caravel.inria.fr/Embrepubs_dana.html/

Lore http://www-db.stanford.edu/lore/

Received on Thursday, 19 April 2001 09:04:34 UTC