In this paper, we present a novel approach called WaterFowl for the storage of RDF triples that addresses some key issues in the contexts of big data and the Semantic Web. The architecture of our prototype, largely based on the use of succinct data structures, enables the representation of triples in a self-indexed, compact manner without requiring decompression at query answering time. Moreover, it is adapted to eciently support RDF and RDFS entailment regimes thanks to an optimized encoding of ontology concepts and properties that does not require a complete inference materialization or extensive query rewriting algorithms. This approach implies to make a distinction between the terminological and the assertional components of the knowledge base early in the process of data preparation, i:e:, preprocessing the data before storing it in our structures. The paper describes the complete architecture of this system and presents some preliminary results obtained from evaluations conducted on our rst prototype.
Finally, our solution focuses on query processing of SPARQL queries. It aims to minimize the memory footprint required during query execution and to perform optimizations in terms of SDS operations complexities: , , , and . Adapting some of the heuristics presented in @cite_21 , optimization approaches of @cite_19 and @cite_16 , the system optimizes execution of SDS operations. The ordering of basic graph patterns execution also takes into account simple statistics computed when generating the dictionaries (see Section ). BigOWLIM http: www.ontotext.com owlim is, like most existing RDF database systems, @math , RDF-3X and Jena TDB http: jena.apache.org documentation tdb , taking benefits of data statistics to organize the order of BGP and thus optimize queries.
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Triple stores implementing the RL profile of OWL 2 are becoming increasingly popular. In contrast to unrestricted OWL 2, the RL profile is known to enjoy favourable computational properties for query answering, and state-of-the-art RL reasoners such as OWLim and Oracle's native inference engine of Oracle Spatial and Graph have proved extremely successful in industry-scale applications. The expressive restrictions imposed by OWL 2 RL may, however, be problematical for some applications. In this paper, we propose novel techniques that allow us (in many cases) to compute exact query answers using an off-the-shelf RL reasoner, even when the ontology is outside the RL profile. Furthermore, in the cases where exact query answers cannot be computed, we can still compute both lower and upper bounds on the exact answers. These bounds allow us to estimate the degree of incompleteness of the RL reasoner on the given query, and to optimise the computation of exact answers using a fully-fledged OWL 2 reasoner. A preliminary evaluation using the RDF Semantic Graph feature in Oracle Database has shown very promising results with respect to both scalability and tightness of the bounds. SPARQL basic graph pattern (BGP) (a.k.a. SQL inner-join) query optimization is a well researched area. However, optimization of OPTIONAL pattern queries (a.k.a. SQL left-outer-joins) poses additional challenges, due to the restrictions on the reordering of left-outer-joins. The occurrence of such queries tends to be as high as 50 of the total queries (e.g., DBPedia query logs). In this paper, we present Left Bit Right (LBR), a technique for well-designed nested BGP and OPTIONAL pattern queries. Through LBR, we propose a novel method to represent such queries using a graph of supernodes, which is used to aggressively prune the RDF triples, with the help of compressed indexes. We also propose novel optimization strategies -- first of a kind, to the best of our knowledge -- that combine together the characteristics of acyclicity of queries, minimality, and nullification, best-match operators. In this paper, we focus on OPTIONAL patterns without UNIONs or FILTERs, but we also show how UNIONs and FILTERs can be handled with our technique using a query rewrite. Our evaluation on RDF graphs of up to and over one billion triples, on a commodity laptop with 8 GB memory, shows that LBR can process well-designed low-selectivity complex queries up to 11 times faster compared to the state-of-the-art RDF column-stores as Virtuoso and MonetDB, and for highly selective queries, LBR is at par with them. In this paper, we formalize the problem of Basic Graph Pattern (BGP) optimization for SPARQL queries and main memory graph implementations of RDF data. We define and analyze the characteristics of heuristics for selectivity-based static BGP optimization. The heuristics range from simple triple pattern variable counting to more sophisticated selectivity estimation techniques. Customized summary statistics for RDF data enable the selectivity estimation of joined triple patterns and the development of efficient heuristics. Using the Lehigh University Benchmark (LUBM), we evaluate the performance of the heuristics for the queries provided by the LUBM and discuss some of them in more details. An explosion in the use of RDF for representing information about resources has driven the requirements for Web-scale server systems that can store and process huge quantities of data, and furthermore provide powerful data access and mining functionalities. This paper describes OWLIM, a family of semantic repositories that provide storage, inference and novel data-access features delivered in a scalable, resilient, industrial-strength platform.