A survey and experimental comparison of distributed SPARQL engines for very large RDF data

Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Razen Al-Harbi, Zuhair Khayyat, Panos Kalnis

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Abstract

Distributed SPARQL engines promise to support very large RDF datasets by utilizing shared-nothing computer clusters. Some are based on distributed frameworks such as MapReduce; others implement proprietary distributed processing; and some rely on expensive preprocessing for data partitioning. These systems exhibit a variety of trade-offs that are not well-understood, due to the lack of any comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation. In this paper, we present a survey of 22 state-of-the-art systems that cover the entire spectrum of distributed RDF data processing and categorize them by several characteristics. Then, we select 12 representative systems and perform extensive experimental evaluation with respect to preprocessing cost, query performance, scalability and workload adaptability, using a variety of synthetic and real large datasets with up to 4.3 billion triples. Our results provide valuable insights for practitioners to understand the trade-offs for their usage scenarios. Finally, we publish online our evaluation framework, including all datasets and workloads, for researchers to compare their novel systems against the existing ones.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2049-2060
Number of pages12
JournalProceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Volume10
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 19 2017

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