SYSTAP announces the launch of Blazegraph

SYSTAP is very pleased to launch it’s new graph database platform Blazegraph™ with the 1.5.0 software release available now on Sourceforge. It is built on the same platform and maintains 100% binary and API compatibility with Bigdata®. Blazegraph™ will take over as SYSTAP’s flagship graph database.

This is an overview of the Blazegraph™ roadmap. Features and release dates are subject to change.

Milestone Releases

2011 Q2 (v1.0.0 : Performance)

Smaller on disk footprint and faster data load.
A new persistence store which scales to ~50B triples/quads on a single machine.
A new query engine. It's faster, has a smaller footprint in memory and is more extendable.
100% native SPARQL evaluation.
Easy start install.
Released on 7/5/2011.

2011 Q4 (v1.1.0 : Analytics)

SPARQL 1.1 support (Sesame 2.5) (except property paths and update).
Scalable analytic operators.
New extendable hash tree index.
Memory manager to relieve the JVM heap pressure. 100% native Java solution gets data off the JVM object heap.
Much faster query plans for complex optional groups and UNION.
BLOBs index (large literal and large URI support).

2012 Q1 (v1.2.0)

SPARQL 1.1 UPDATE
SPARQL 1.1 Service Description
SPARQL 1.1 Basic Federated Query
New integration point for custom services.
Remote Java client for NanoSparqlServer
Sesame 2.6.3 dependency
Ganglia integration (cluster)
Performance improvements (cluster)

2013 Q2 (v1.2.3)

SPARQL 1.1 Update Extensions (SPARQL_Update for named solution sets).
SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths.
Remote Java client for Multi-Tenancy extensions NanoSparqlServer
Sesame 2.6.10 dependency
Plus numerous other bug fixes and performance enhancements.

2013 Q4 (v1.3.0)

Highly Available Replication Cluster (HAJournalServer)
Graph Mining API for RDF (PageRank, Connected Components, BFS, SSSP and more).

2014 Q1 (v1.3.1)

Reification Done Right (efficient storage and query of link attributes harmonized with RDF Reification)
RDF Graph Mining API (RDF_GAS_API - Extensible Graph Mining API for RDF Graphs, including BFS, SSSP, CC, PR, etc.)
Runtime Query Optimizer (RTO - See QueryOptimization and RTO overview)
Blueprints API
High availability load balancer.
New RDF/SPARQL workbench.

2014 Q3 (v1.3.2)

A variety of bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Health status for HA and other deployment modes.

2014 Q3 (v1.3.3)

Critical bug fix release (critical section protection and SPARQL UPDATE consistency issue)

2014 Q4 (v1.3.4)

See http://trac.bigdata.com/ticket/1032 (1.3.4 release)
Critical bug fix release (SPARQL UPDATE using REST API fails to recycle storage)

2014 Q4 (v1.4.0)

Openrdf 2.7 support (#714).
Workbench error handling improvements (#911)
Various RDR specific bug fixes for the workbench and server (#1038, #1058, #1061)
Numerous other bug fixes and performance enhancements.

2015 Q1 (v1.5.0 - BlazeGraph)

Initial BlazeGraph release.

Simplified deployer (Executable Jar)
Replaced apache client with jetty client (fixes http protocol layer errors in apache #967)
ALP Service (#1072)
Several bug fixes.
Several query optimizations.

2015 Q1 (v1.5.1)

Numerous correctness fixes (OPTIONAL, BIND() when constructing a non-inline value, GRAPH)
Query optimization for OPTIONAL.
Query optimization for property paths.
Concurrent writers and group commit (beta).
See http://trac.bigdata.com/ticket/1104

Planned Milestone Releases

2015 Q3 (v1.6)

Support for Tinkerpop3 Early Access
GPU Accelerated SPARQL Query
Improved Deployment Capabilities

2015 Q2 (v2.0)

GA release for the horizontally scaled architecture.
HDFS integration for scale-out services.
Integrated high availability for scale-out.
Simplified deployment, configuration, and administration.

Accelerating Features

Development is driven by our both personal vision and by what people are telling us they need. If you want to accelerate a feature by underwriting its development, contact the project administrators.

Roadmap

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