[OTDev] OWL-DL performance/scalability problems

Christoph Helma helma at in-silico.ch
Fri Sep 3 16:00:37 CEST 2010


Excerpts from Egon Willighagen's message of Fri Sep 03 15:43:02 +0200 2010:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Christoph Helma <helma at in-silico.ch> wrote:
> > I have been investigating several problems that we had with creating and serving OWL-DL representations:
> 
> Are you actually doing reasoning on the data? That is, might your
> library (Redland?) be secretly doing that? That would certainly slow
> things down considerably...

I don't think so. As far as I understand querying is done by Rasqual,
which is a separate library. Redland also knows nothing about OWL-DL,
just RDF so we had to write our own code for creating OWL-DL.

Best regards,
Christoph



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