Introduction: Orri Erling

Introduction: Orri Erling

Role: Secondary contact for OpenLink Software

I am the program manager for OpenLink Virtuoso.  I participated in the
previous DAWG, having joined it in the middle of its term.

My background is in databases, from storage engines to SQL optimization.  I
have lastly written cluster support for version 6 of Virtuoso, to be
commercially available during the first quarter of 09.  The value
proposition is to offer one two two orders of magnitude more scalability for
RDF storage plus a SPARQL with sufficient extensions for any typical
database workload and more.

Many details of this work are discussed at the Virtuoso blog,
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/blog .

Presently, this is being used for hosting a large part of the Linked Open
Data cloud, offering full text and SPARQL query and faceted browsing on well
over a billion triples.  Besides supporting the SPARQL protocol and diverse
SQL clients, we are also compatible with the Jena and Sesame frameworks.

Work to be undertaken after productization of the present Virtuoso Cluster
platform involves dynamic scaling  and partitioning in a database cloud
environment, federated querying  and  integrating more inferencing into the
database.

For the present working group, we find it important to bring SPARQL to
parity with SQL in SQL's areas of  strength while preserving  the advantages
of the RDF data model.  Besides this, we find that the open web character of
RDF warrants specific support for federated queries and discovery.  We will
shortly publish a wiki page outlining how we propose to accomplish these
goals.

Most  of the needed features are already implemented by ourselves and
others.  For the working group, we would like to see the maximum ground
covered in standardizing these.  The creation of a SPARQL recommendation
featuring the required expressivity is the aim, not per se the adoption of
our solution to any particular issue.

I join Andy in wishing to concentrate on the most practical aspects first.
This, as well as the community  involvement Andy called for,  should be
facilitated  by the existence of live implementations of many of the
features we propose to agree upon.

Ivan Mikhailov is  our primary contact.  Matters requiring rapid response
should be addressed to him, with cc to myself.


Regards
Orri Erling

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:17:02 UTC