Re: [OWLAPI-developer] Database Backend and Triple Store support

[Matthew H. <mat...@cs...>]

Hi Jyoti,

> I am new to this forum and wanted to learn something which might  
> have been asked before: does the OWL API provide support for a  
> database backend and existing triple store implementations? If yes,  
> could you please provide me a pointer with more information on this?  
> If not, is there an expectation to provide such a support in a  
> future release?

It is possible to add a new implementations of the OWLOntology  
interface - one could imagine that such an implementation could be  
based on some triple store (e.g. Sesame).  In terms of in-memory  
triple stores then I don't think this makes sense.   This is because  
the OWL API is generally more efficient in terms of memory usage (and  
load time) than a corresponding triple based API implementation.

Cheers,

Matthew