Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2006)

by Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel

Many approaches for RDF stores exist, most of them using very straight-forward techniques to store triples in or mapping RDF Schema classes to database tables. In this paper we propose an RDF store that uses a natural mapping of RDF resources to database tables that does not rely on RDF Schema, but constructs a schema based on the occurring signatures, where a signature is the set of properties used on a resource. This technique can therefore be used for arbitrary RDF data, i.e., RDF Schema or any other schema/ontology language on top of RDF is not required. Our approach can be used for both in-memory and on-disk relational database-based RDF store implementations. A first prototype has been implemented and already shows a significant performance increase compared to other freely available (in-memory) RDF stores.

RDFBroker: A Signature-Based High-Performance RDF Store was presented at this event.

Keywords: Semantic Web Applications

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2006/paper/sintek-kiesel
Same as: http://www.eswc2006.org/full-papers/#sintek-kiesel

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