On enhancing scalability for distributed RDF/S stores
George Tsatsanifos, Dimitris Sacharidis, Timos Sellis · 2011
This work presents MIDAS-RDF, a distributed P2P RDF/S repository that is built on top of a distributed multi-dimensional index structure. MIDAS-RDF features fast retrieval of RDF triples satisfying various pattern queries by translating them into multi-dimensional range queries, which can be processed by the underlying index in hops logarithmic to the number of peers. More importantly, MIDAS-RDF utilizes a labeling scheme to handle expensive transitive closure computations efficiently. This allows for distributed RDFS reasoning in a more scalable way compared to existing methods, as also demonstrated by our extensive experimental study. Furthermore, MIDAS-RDF supports a publish-subscribe model that enables remote peers to selectively subscribe to RDF content.