Re: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

Hello Eyal,

> this benchmark is somewhat unfair as the relational stores have one advantage compared to the 
> native triple stores: the relational data structure is fixed (Products, 
> Producers, Reviews, etc with given columns), while the triple 
> representation is generic (arbitrary s,p,o).
> 
> One can question whether such flexibility is relevant in practice, and if 
> so, one may try to extract such structured patterns from data on-the-fly.

That will be our next big extension -- updateable RDV Views, as proposed
in http://esw.w3.org/topic/UpdatingRelationalDataViaSPARUL . So we will
be able to load BSBM data as RDF and query them via SPARQL web service
endpoint; thus we will masquerade  the relational storage entirely.

Best Regards,

Ivan Mikhailov,
OpenLink Software
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:08:35 UTC