OpenLink Unleashes Semantically-Aware Column-Store for Handling Big Data Challenges

Virtuoso 7.0 Delivers Massively Scalable Hybrid (RDF Graph & SQL) DBMS For Secure, High-Performance, Big Data Management and Integration Challenges

BURLINGTON, MA. -- April 23, 2013 -- OpenLink Software, Inc., today unveiled the latest, most advanced version of the Virtuoso hybrid data management system, further expanding their cost-effective, secure, cross-platform, high-performance, and massively-scalable solution to the challenge of performing insightful analytics over Big, Small, and Broad Data. This latest product release delivers record setting performance, scalability, and agility, alongside unrivaled security sophistication.

Situation Analysis

Exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide Web continues to drive exponential growth of the data volume, velocity, and variety collective, colloquially referred to as Big Data.

In the wake of this phenomena, the perpetual quest for data-driven agility continues to challenge individuals and enterprises alike to extract timely insights, now from Big Data, and to quickly and easily deliver these to the right people and software agents, without compromising privacy or security in the process.

Driven by a simple mission statement, "Destroy performance and scalability as obstacles to the exploitation of Linked Data, the Semantic Web, and Big Data," the new Virtuoso release delivers an unrivaled platform that combining advances in database management technology, declarative query languages, and RDF-based entity relationship semantics, without compromising performance, scalability, security, privacy, platform independence, standards compliance, or ease of use and administration.

"It's no secret that in isolation, heterogeneous data access, semantically-enhanced data integration, and relational data management, continue to be overwhelmed by the security, performance, and insight-driven requirements of Big Data," said Kingsley Idehen, Founder & CEO of OpenLink Software. "In line with our technology leadership and innovation pedigree, Virtuoso 7.0 turns today's Big Data challenges into opportunities for data-driven agility exploitation, for individuals and enterprises alike, without undue complexity, expense, privacy compromises, or disruption of existing data assets or infrastructure," he added.

Benefits Summary

Cost Effective -- more compact database engine requires reduced computing resources





-- more compact database engine requires reduced computing resources High-Performance & Massive Scalability -- massive increase in performance over prior Virtuoso releases





-- massive increase in performance over prior Virtuoso releases Semantically-Driven Distributed Security -- built-in support for advanced data access control lists (ACLs) and policies that leverage Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), RDF-based entity relationship semantics, and Linked Data driven entity relationship graphs





-- built-in support for advanced data access control lists (ACLs) and policies that leverage Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), RDF-based entity relationship semantics, and Linked Data driven entity relationship graphs Powerful Data Analytics -- examining heterogeneously-shaped data across disparate data locations





-- examining heterogeneously-shaped data across disparate data locations Combined Native Data Management & Virtualization -- SQL Relational Tables (local and remote, native and third-party, via ODBC or JDBC) and RDF-based Relational Property Graphs





-- SQL Relational Tables (local and remote, native and third-party, via ODBC or JDBC) and RDF-based Relational Property Graphs Standards Compliance -- SQL, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, HTTP, RDF, SPARQL, PKI, X.509, OpenID, OAuth, WebID, and others





"I am impressed by the benefits of integrating vectorized execution and compressed columnar storage in the Virtuoso version 7 RDF store," said Dr. Peter Boncz, an award-winning database technology researcher and columnar store pioneer (MonetDB and Vectorwise) at Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica (CWI), the national Dutch research institute for mathematics. "This major development over version 6 was conducted in the context of the EU LOD2 project, where OpenLink Software and CWI collaborate. Columnar storage strongly reduces the RAM needs of RDF workloads, which benefits performance and cost of deployment. On top of that, vectorized execution turned out to be a great match for the RDF-oriented index-lookup joins and shared-nothing cluster communications. I congratulate OpenLink for achieving this technology advance," he added.

"Using column store techniques revolutionizes space efficiency and query performance for RDF-based Linked Data deployment and management," said Orri Erling, Virtuoso Program Manager and Development Lead at OpenLink Software. "Version 7 of Virtuoso is three times more compact than prior releases thereby utilizing a much smaller memory footprint. It also includes enhanced parallelization based on vectored execution that enables full platform utilization when handling the most complex data query and data loading operations. These powerful enhancements extend from the desktop to the high-availability, shared-nothing cluster configurations," he added.

Availability

The shrink-wrapped commercial edition of Virtuoso 7.0 is available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, with 32-bit and 64-bit support throughout. Other Unix platforms are available on request.

The Open Source edition is available from Github.

Live Showcases

Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud Cache -- Semantically interlinked Big Data





DBpedia-Live -- constantly updated from the Wikipedia "firehose" changelog





DBpedia -- updated periodically by bulk import from Wikipedia





Special Offers

In a combined celebration of this exciting new release, and 20 years in business, OpenLink is offering a number of special and upgradeable licensing deals on Virtuoso 7.0.

A new Personal license brings most enterprise-grade features to the desktop, fitting an individual's budget and without requiring enterprise-grade administration or training.





Several new Developer licenses enable cost-effective learning and experimentation, from $0 to $999, depending on the features you choose to explore.





Extra-special limited time server-class license specials, bring the full power and benefit of the new Release to any enterprise, at unimagined price levels.





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About OpenLink Software

OpenLink Software is a privately-held software company with offices in the USA and the United Kingdom. It has been the leading provider and technology innovator in the universal data access middleware market since 1993, and over 10,000 companies currently use its products worldwide. Follow @OpenLink on Twitter, http://twitter.com/openlink, or visit our website for more information, http://www.openlinksw.com/.

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