What about sparql.org? 

That is a reference public Fuseki endpoint hosted by Apache on behalf of the 
projects, sure it is a toy dataset but it is a public endpoint

The projects team role is to organise the development of the software which we 
make it available freely to the public under the Apache foundations non-profit 
corporate charter.

Our role is not to sell the software or to evangelise any particular vision of 
how the software should be used. This is very different to someone like 
OpenLink Software who are a commercial company and who have an interest in 
convincing end users to use their software in order to generate income and pay 
their and pay their bills.

In practical terms hosting a public endpoint is an expensive business. To take 
DBPedia as an example it is billions of triples and so needs appropriate 
hardware. Let’s assume you wanted to host this in Amazon EC2 and wanted to use 
a r3.8xlarge instance (32 cores, 244 GiB RAM, 2x320GB SSD, 10 GigE network) as 
an example. The hourly rate for this is $2.66 per hour which works out as 
approximately $23,000 per year, even if we were to use a reserve instance and 
pay up front that would still cost approximately $12,000 per year. This is 
before we even take into account bandwidth, Storage and ongoing support costs.  
As has already been pointed out everybody here is volunteers, we do not have 
any large corporate sponsors like other high profile Apache projects, so where 
do you expect that money to come from?

 Rob

On 04/04/2017 16:01, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:40:00 +0200, A. Soroka <[email protected]> wrote:
    
    >> On Apr 4, 2017, at 10:25 AM, [email protected] wrote:
    >>
    >>>> what kind of problems do you see, i have a local Fuseki server  
    >>>> running downloaded nt-Dbpedia datasets, which i regulary actualize.
    >>> That doesn't really help anyone compare Jena and Virtuoso, does it? :)
    >> Ofcourse it does, if you run those datasets as a public Fuseki-endpoint  
    >> like Virtuoso...
    >
    > At which point you have the same problem I named before. Unless the  
    > resourcing for those public endpoints is the same, you don't have a real  
    > comparison at all.
    
    Dbpedia-dataset is a relative small one, with a bit good-will cooperation  
    i see there no prblems, otherwise you can forget the idea of Semantic Web,  
    but you did it already, i think...
    
    >
    >>> I'm sorry, I am a bit confused; are you able to volunteer some time or  
    >>> resources to this purpose? What you would like the Jena team to do to  
    >>> help _you_ implement this idea?
    >> Jena Team should run A REFERENCE PUBLIC ENDPOINT and say to the world  
    >> 'here we are', this is not my job, it has something to do with  
    >> 'credibility' of the actual develepement...
    >
    > I don't know if this is always quite clear, so it sometime bears  
    > remarking; the Jena team (like all Apache efforts) is an all-volunteer  
    > group. No one is paid by Apache to work on Jena. If you would like to  
    > take your idea forward, let's talk about how to do that. If you just  
    > want someone else to implement it for you, it is not the job of anyone  
    > on this list to do so, so we can end this conversation.
    
    
    Why not, ofcourse we can end it, if you see no other way, you say, make it  
    yourself.
    
    But the USERS spended so many time in this environment and they have a  
    right to say, what they think the right way is and i am sure to run an  
    official Fuseki-'Reference' public endpoint is a very harmless and for  
    everyone comprehensible suggestion...
    
    baran
    
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