I have followed this for a bit but hadn’t suggested Jena for the reasons you mentioned.
AFAIK they are looking for a triplestore that is - open-source - actively maintained - scales to their data volume To my knowledge, there isn’t any that satisfies all 3 requirements :/ On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 15.21, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > Wikidata are looking for a replace for BlazeGraph > > About WDQS, current scale and current challenges > https://youtu.be/wn2BrQomvFU?t=9148 > > And in the process of appointing a graph consultant: (5 month contract): > https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3546920 > > and Apache Jena came up: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206560#7517212 > > Realistically? > > Full wikidata is 16B triples. Very hard to load - xloader may help > though the goal for that was to make loading the truthy subset (5B) > easier. 5B -> 16B is not a trivial step. > > Even if wikidata loads, it would be impractically slow as TDB is today. > (yes, that's fixable; not practical in their timescales.) > > The current discussions feel more like they are looking for a "product" > - a triplestore that they are use - rather than a collaboration. > > Andy >
