RDFBroker: a signature-based high-performance RDF store

  • Authors:
  • Michael Sintek;Malte Kiesel

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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.