Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica has cooperated with our partner OpenLink Software, to help apply advanced database methods developed at CWI in the Virtuoso database product of OpenLink. The cooperation between CWI and OpenLink Software, was established in the European research project LOD2 (www.lod2.eu), that aims at strengthening the tools and technology for semantic data management (SWC is member of the LOD2 project consortium).
As a result of this cooperation, techniques pioneered at CWI like vector execution and column compression have now been included into the Virtuoso product by OpenLink, leading to breakthrough improvements in database performance.
Virtuoso is used by PoolParty Semantic Integrator for enterprise linked data applications.
CWI has completed benchmarking on its SCILENS compute-cluster with this new technology on the 50 and 150 billion triple Berlin Sparql Benchmark (BSBM), which marks a breakthrough 750x scalability improvement over any previous result. The new Virtuoso product release is expected to be announced later this week.
The research institute is inventor of the column-based analytical database technology which has resulted in its open source database system MonetDB and spin out VectorWise, and is a completely new approach on data processing.
