[Pellet-Users] Persistence API & Reasoning

[Bijan Parsia]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Matt Williams wrote:

> Dear Lists,
>
> I was just wondering how the jena persistence API integrates with  
> reasoners?
>
> I know that jena models can be stored in a RDBMS (e.g. MySQL), but I
> want to access the model through Pellet so that I get all the  
> reasoning
> facilities.
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this?

This is generally not done. The closest thing to this is the  
InstanceStore, which only recently has been extended to allow roles  
in the ABox. For current pellet, the only advantage would be not  
having to parse the file, which generally isn't too time consuming,  
but I suppose could make a difference.

We have some thoughts for integrating with secondary storage, but  
it's likely to be distinct from an RDF store. There was a very  
interesting paper at DL06 by some IBM folks on a different way to  
integrate with secondary storage (that's work in progress).

We have some ideas of how to use these and other techniques and hope  
to experiment with them in the next year or so.

Cheers,
Bijan.