Re: RDF Thrift : A binary format for RDF data

On Aug 15, 2014 4:25 PM, "Andy Seaborne" <andy@apache.org> wrote:
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> RDF Binary using Apache Thrift
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> This is a binary format for RDF graphs, datasets and SPARQL result sets
that is fast to process. [1]
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>    http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/
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> includes the on-the-wire description as well as an implementation.
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> Using Apache Thrift makes it considerably less work to integrate into
existing systems and toolkits, or to build custom processing. [2]
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>         Comments and feedback welcome,
>         Andy
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> [1] The largest gain is on reading data, with rates x3 faster than
parsing N-Triples.

That looks pretty cool. Any idea how this compares with HDT <
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2011/SUBM-HDT-20110330/> or Sesame's binary
formats for RDF and SPARQL results?

> [2] Apache thrift has a large number of implementations across a range of
languages: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/LibraryFeatures
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