Re: Triple stores as services?

On Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 05:58:15PM +0100, Norman Gray wrote:
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> Greetings.
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> Are there any triple stores available as online services?

Talis and Metaweb. the latter only if you consider them a triple store. but really theyre better than that, since they were biult _for_ the web instead of a whole new layer cake - ie no new langs like SPARQL and N3, just pure JSON/HTML..

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> There are a few services which let you store data online, to take away the 
> hassle of setting up and maintaining your own hardware and database 
> interfaces; Amazon S3 is a well-known example (though it's not SQL, of 
> course).  Does anyone know of a similar thing providing a SPARQL endpoint?
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> The reason I ask is that I'm involved in a project which will want to be 
> exposing of order 10^6 triples to the web, and a colleague suggested that 
> there's a category of hassle we could potentially avoid if we could give 
> someone (a little!) money to look after this in some corner of their vast 
> disk farm.
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> Or is the semantic web not a commodity yet?
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> All the best,
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> Norman
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