This post is the first in a series of blogs analyzing the LDBC Social
Network Benchmark Interactive workload. This is written from the dual
perspective of participating in the benchmark design and of building the
OpenLink Virtuoso implementation of same.

With two implementations of SNB interactive at four different scales, we
can take a first look at what the benchmark is really about. The
hallmark of a benchmark implementation is that its …

In a previous 3-part blog series we touched upon the difficulties of executing the LDBC SNB
Interactive (SNB) workload, while achieving good performance and
scalability. What we didn’t discuss is why these difficulties were
unique to SNB, and what aspects of the way we perform workload execution
are scientific contributions - novel solutions to previously unsolved
problems. This post will highlight the differences between SNB and more …

As discussed in previous posts, one of the features that makes Datagen
more realistic is the fact that the activity volume of the simulated
Persons is not uniform, but forms spikes. In this blog entry I want to
explain more in depth how this is actually implemented inside of the
generator.

First of all, I start with a few basics of how Datagen works internally.
In Datagen, once the person graph has been created (persons and their
relationships), …

This blog entry is about one of the features of DATAGEN that makes it
different from other synthetic graph generators that can be found in the
literature: the community structure of the graph.

When generating synthetic graphs, one must not only pay attention to
quantitative measures such as the number of nodes and edges, but also to
other more qualitative characteristics such as the degree distribution,
clustering coefficient. Real graphs, and …

Publishing and media businesses are going through transformation

I took this picture in June 2010 next to Union Square in San Francisco.
I was smoking and …

The Linked Data paradigm has become the prominent enabler for sharing
huge volumes of data using Semantic Web technologies, and has created
novel challenges for non-relational data management systems, such as RDF
and graph engines. Efficient data access through queries is perhaps the
most important data management task, and is enabled through query
optimization techniques, which amount to the discovery of optimal or
close to optimal execution …