Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Nikolas Everett
Thanks Magnus! You've been heroic. We'll target getting a version up and running in labs as soon as we can so people can poke holes in it. Regarding Markus' points: BigData == BlazeGraph --- I agree this is confusing, sorry I didn't mention it. When we started

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Mar 5, 2015 8:50 PM, Nikolas Everett never...@wikimedia.org wrote: TL/DR: We're selected BlazeGraph to back the next Wikidata Query Service. After Titan evaporated about a month ago we went back to the drawing board on back ends for a new Wikidata Query Service. We took four weeks

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2015 8:50 PM, Nikolas Everett never...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2. How should we represent the data in the database? BlazeGraph (and only BlazeGraph) has an extension that *could* us called RDR. Should we

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 06.03.2015 15:05, Nikolas Everett wrote: ... Regarding Markus' points: ... The obvious question that comes from this point is why not use Virtuoso? it is exposed publicly all over the place, you can talk to the dbpedia folks, they do it and this is a very compelling argument As long as

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi, Thanks for all the work. I think this is a sensible decision. What confused me at first is that I did not know BlazeGraph (and when you google for it, the first thing is an unrelated sourceforge project). An important insight for me thus was that BlazeGraph is the project that has up