Virtuoso Systemeigenschaften

Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations (Tables) and/or RDF sentence collections (Graphs). It is a high-performance, scalable, secure, and open standards-based platform.

• Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e., a decentralized collection of databases that produce a knowledge graph in the cloud that is accessible 24/7 for declarative ad-hoc interactions by both humans and bots using the SPARQL Query Language

• Engine Sophistication — enables use of SPARQL and an open-standards-based extension to SQL, thereby blending the ACID and scalability features of that language with the semantically-informed navigation capabilities of SPARQL; custom reasoning and inference that brings “explainable AI” to data management and data virtualization

• Attribute-based Access Controls — fine-grained data access policies informed by entity relationship-type semantics of protected resources and the humans and/or bots seeking access to said resources

Used for —

• Analytics/BI
• Conceptual Data Virtualization
• Enterprise Knowledge Graphs bolstered by Explainable AI
• Smart & Secure Customer 360
• Smart & Secure Federated Data Lakes
• Smart & Secure MDM
• Smart & Secure Data Services
• Smart & Secure Data Governance
• Smart & Secure Data Monetization
• Safe & Secure Fusion of AI and Data Access, Integration, and Management

— across industries including —

• Financial Services & Insurance
• Pharma & Healthcare
• Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
• Retail
• Insurance
• Government
• Petroleum (Oil, Natural Gas, etc.)
• Telco
• Manufacturing

Broad use across enterprises and governments including —

• European Union (EU)
• US Government
• Deutsche Bank
• Schneider Electronics
• Bayer
• Syngenta
• Bloomberg
• Viacom
• BASF
• Sanofi
• GE
• and many others

— as well as publicly accessible database instances across the massive LOD Cloud, such as —

• DBpedia (SPARQL endpoint) — nucleus of the LOD Cloud
• BabelNet (SPARQL endpoint)
• Bio2RDF (SPARQL endpoint)
• EBML-EBI — many projects, including —
  • PDBe (SPARQL endpoint)
  • Uniprot (SPARQL endpoint)
• Italian Parliament Chamber of Deputies (SPARQL endpoint)
• Orphanet (SPARQL endpoint)

• Largest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs

• Platform behind DBpedia

  • DBpedia is an AI- and Query-friendly Knowledge Graph form of Wikipedia

  • DBpedia provided the bootstrap point for the massive Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud

  • Virtuoso is the platform behind a majority of nodes in the LOD Cloud

• Performance and Scalability Leader

• Data Security Leader

• Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions

  • Feature Comparison across Editions
  • Enterprise Edition Trial License
  • Enterprise Edition Special Offers
  • Open Source Edition Github Project

• Flexible, per host; optional time-limits; typically concurrency-limited (client hosts and sessions; processor counts)

• Unlimited data volume, traffic, sources