Mulgara (software)

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Mulgara is a triplestore. It is Open Source, massively scalable, and transaction-safe^[1]. Mulgara instances can be queried via the iTQL query language, and soon via the SPARQL query language^[2]^[3].

1 History
2 Internals
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

As early as April 2004^[4], Tucana Technologies Inc was developing Tucana Knowledge Server, a proprietary RDF database relying on an Open Source basis they called Kowari.

In September 2005, Tucana was bought by Northrop Grumman.^[5] In January 2006, Northrop Grumman threatened a Kowari developer with legal action if he released any new version of Kowari^[6]. As a consequence, Kowari was forked in July 2006. It was renamed to Mulgara because Northrop Grumman owns the Kowari trademark. All development on Kowari has stopped^[7] and the community moved to Mulgara.

[edit] Internals

Mulgara is not based on a relational database due to the large numbers of table joins encountered by relational systems when dealing with metadata. Instead, Mulgara is a completely new database optimized for metadata management. Mulgara models hold metadata in the form of short subject-predicate-object statements, much like the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard. Metadata may be imported into or exported from Mulgara in RDF or Notation 3 form.^[1]