On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The TDB bulk loaders all work on the assumption they are building a new
> database from empty.  You give all the files at once to the bulkloader.

OK that's good to know; I take the point that the incremental loading
is meant for occasional small updates rather than staged bulk loads.

> The other point that is worth mentioned when working with a lot of data is
> to make sure that the data is all valid - if some RDF is broken but only
> encountered late in the load,then a lot of time is used only to be thrown
> away.

Thanks - the RDF files in this particular case are OK but I appreciate
the advice about checking first.

>> Is TDB even appropriate for this? Would (say) a MySQL-backed SDB
>> instance be better? Or three separate TDB instances? Obviously the
>> later would require some sort of query federation layer.
>
> SDB does not scale as well.

OK, that's good to know.

> If there is a natural split to 3 (say) servers, then that might work but
> without a clever query federation layer the details get exposed to the
> application.

In this case I'd prefer to keep everything on one server; I'll let you
know how I get on.

Regards

Glenn.

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