Enable SynBioHub to use other triplestores #10
Description
It would be nice to support triplestores other than Virtuoso.
Some notes about other options are below:
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Parliament is roughly as scalable as Virtuoso.
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Parliament is less scalable than a few other single-machine triple stores, like AllegroGraph and StarDog, but not by a huge amount.
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Parliament falls far behind newer entrants that are explicitly cloud-based, like BlazeGraph and Anzo. However, these all come with some odd trade-offs that can be difficult to swallow in many use cases.
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Parliament’s query performance and standards compliance are quite a bit better than Virtuoso’s. In addition, you will find setup and administration of Parliament to be tremendously simpler.
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Parliament’s inference is much more performant than Virtuoso’s and AllegroGraph’s. However, its level of inference is low (RL), so if you want more sophisticated inference I would recommend StarDog.
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Parliament does not implement ACID transactions, so it is somewhat vulnerable to things like power failures. We have done a number of things to mitigate these risks, but we have not invested the time to make it truly ACID. If that’s something you need, then my recommendation would be StarDog.