Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Apache Jena TDB storing a CRIS's CERIF data as RDF for SPARQL access.
- Is an instance
A Virtuoso instance running the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A Neo4j property-graph database is not an RDF triple store (different model, different query language).
- Not an instance
A relational SQL database is not an RDF triple store.
Editorial commentary
RDF triple stores are the canonical persistence layer for linked-data applications. They differ from relational databases in modelling all data as triples (or quads, when graph names are included), supporting open-schema evolution and federated SPARQL queries. Major triple stores include Apache Jena TDB, Virtuoso, Blazegraph (now end-of-life), Stardog, GraphDB, Amazon Neptune, and Oxigraph. Performance characteristics vary by query workload; benchmark suites like LUBM and BSBM are used for comparison.
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Also known as
Triple store · RDF database · Graph database (RDF)
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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