Introducing SPARQL Support in OpenLink Virtuoso

Together with the release of OpenLink Virtuoso Open Source Edition,

http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main

OpenLink Software announces SPARQL and native triple store support.

Virtuoso is a SQL database and virtual database with integrated SOAP and WS*
protocols, DAV repository and BPEL engine.

The new release adds SPARQL  as an equal partner to SQL, to be freely
substituted for and intermixed with SQL.  SPARQL queries  transparently
translate to SQL and refer to special triple store tables kept in Virtuoso's
database.  Virtuoso's database offers low-level support for RDF, as in
special data types and type cast semantics.  The technical highlights of the
implementation are discussed at:

http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSRDF


There is an online demo based on the DAWG SPARQL test suite at

http://demo.openlinksw.com/sparql_demo

Future plans include mapping local and remote SQL tables into RDF for SPARQL
querying of relational data, more SPARQL storage options, continued
optimizations, introducing a fine grained security model and more.

Virtuoso related developments and news are covered at the product blog,
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/blog/

Received on Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:39:12 UTC