Announcing OpenLink Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v7.0.0

Hi,

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 7.0.0:

New product features as of Aug, 2013, V7.0.0, include:

  * Database engine
    - Added Vectorized Execution of Queries
    - Added Finer-grained Multithreading
    - Added In-built Columnar (or Column-wise) physical storage & data compression
    - Added JDK 1.7 / JDBC 4.1 driver
    - Added new WebDAV API enhancements and Dynamic Extension 
      Types (DETs)
    - Upgraded Conductor including new WebDAV UI for exploitation 
      of File Save, Create, and Share UX pattern 
    - Upgraded Database Engine-Hosted Facet Browser
    - Fixed issues with JDBC catalog metadata calls
    - Fixed issue with HTTP content length
    - Fixed issue with SQL relating to transitive closures
    - Fixed issue with XPath Query appearing twice in same tree
    - Fixed small issues in Cost Based Query Optimizer
    - Fixed memory leaks
    - Updated documentation

  * SPARQL and RDF Data Management 
    - Added SPARQL-GEO support 
    - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 BIND, and VALUES clauses
    - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Update Protocol
    - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Functions and Aggregates
    - Added support for ?graph parameter in SPARQL 1.1 Graph Protocol
    - Added SPARQL expression optimizations
    - Added support for live Hyperlinks of IRIs (when HTTP URI based) in HTML output 
      from SPARQL endpoint
    - Added Jena 2.10.x connector
    - Added Sesame 2.7.x connector
    - Added new pretty-print option to Turtle output from SPARQL endpoint 
    - Added ASSUME extension for query optimization hints between SPARQL and DBMS core engine
    - Fixed processing of OPTION clauses for SPARQL-FED
    - Fixed support for xsd:string and untyped strings
    - Fixed issues associated with scalability of graph-level 
      security for RDF Quad Store data
    - Fixed issues in Transitive option
    - Fixed missing RDF_QM_DEFINE_LITERAL_CLASS_WITH_FIXED_LANG
    - Fixed compilation of queries with deeply nested ?:globals
    - Fixed issues with Transitivity, Inference, and SPARQL 1.1 
      Property Paths

  * ODS Applications
    - Merged newer versions of the ODS applications


Other links:

Virtuoso Open Source Edition:
 * Home Page: 
   <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/>
 * Download Page: 
   <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload>
 * GitHub:
   <https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/tree/stable/7>

OpenLink Data Spaces Platform:
 * Home Page: http://web.ods.openlinksw.com 
 * Documentation: 
   <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex>
 * SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS): 
   <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef>

OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE extension for Linked Data browsing):
 * Home Page: 
   <http://ode.openlinksw.com/>

OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT):
 * Project Page: 
   <http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat>
 * Live Demonstration: 
   <http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo>
 * Interactive SPARQL Demo: 
   <http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/>

Best Regards
Hugh Williams
Professional Services
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