Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning

Efficient management of RDF data is an important factor in realizing the Semantic Web vision. Performance and scalability issues are becoming increasingly pressing as Semantic Web technology is applied to real-world applications. In this paper, we examine the reasons why current data management solutions for RDF data scale poorly, and explore the fundamental scalability limitations of these approaches. We review the state of the art for improving performance for RDF databases and consider a recent suggestion, “property tables.” We then discuss practically and empirically why this solution has undesirable features. As an improvement, we propose an alternative solution: vertically partitioning the RDF data. We compare the performance of vertical partitioning with prior art on queries generated by a Web-based RDF browser over a large-scale (more than 50 million triples) catalog of library data. Our results show that a vertical partitioned schema achieves similar performance to the pr...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus 0002, Samuel Madden, Katherine J. Hollenbach
• Keywords: Database, RDF Data, RDF Data Scale, Semantic Web, VLDB 2007