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How-to install a Sesame RDF server

[An english translation of the previous french article]

Every profession has its own tools. For the emerging professions of the semantic web, RDF repositories will become the foundations of the semantic pyramid, a tool that every “semantic worker” will use; maybe one day, when referring to these “semantic workers”, we will speak about “semantic manager”, or “semantic architects”… Anyway these RDF repositories are talking about promising performances for growing amounts of data : they are reaching one billion of triples, and that is the focus of the next “semantic web challenge” (see also here and there). This remains however ridiculously small compared to relationnal databases, that can store terabytes of data; especially when you consider that, in order to garantee optimal performances on complex queries and inference, RDF databases are generally all loaded into memory…

But not everyone needs a billion-triple-large RDF database, and you can start working with such a tool by installing the Sesame RDF server.