Re: Storing RDF in a relational database

Hello Bernadette,
Would you be willing to share the name of the triplestore implementation
you are using to store 99B triples?
Thanks,
Andrew Woods

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com
> wrote:

> Hi Ai-jun,
> Not sure that storing RDF triples in a relational database is novel, at
> least not in 2016. And 300M isn’t a big number in the world of graph
> databases. For example, we’re working with a linked data repository,
> PubChem with 99B triples, and linking it to a subset of environmental
> linked open data. Point is, graph databases are a useful tool for specific
> jobs, just like RDBMS’s are great for other jobs.
>
> More importantly, getting triples out in a speedy manner, using a standard
> query language, and building a nice UI, is the part many people in the
> linked data community have spent 10+ years getting right.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland
> CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
>
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2016, at 04:11, Li, Ai-jun <Ai-jun.Li@morganstanley.com> wrote:
>
>
> I came across a very old request for comments for storing RDF data in
> relational database (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/db.html). I
> was unable to find any newer discussion on this. We had implemented a very
> innovative way of storing linked graph data in Sybase many years ago and
> the system is still being used today. The system is storing the equivalent
> of over 300 million triples and is scalable for much more. We’d be happy to
> share our approach if this is something the community is still interested
> in (will need to get the firm’s approval, obviously).
>
> Thanks,
> Ai-jun Li
>
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