Benchmarking Linked Open Data Management Systems

With inherent support for storing and analysing highly interconnected data, graph and RDF databases appear as natural solutions for developing Linked Open Data applications. However, current benchmarks for these database technologies do not fully attain the desirable characteristics in industrial-strength benchmarks [1] (e.g. relevance, verifiability, etc.) and typically do not model scenarios characterized by complex queries over skewed and highly correlated data [2]. The Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) is an EU FP7 ICT project that brings together a community of academic researchers and industry, whose main objective is the development of industrial-strength benchmarks for graph and RDF databases.