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Recently, several approaches and systems were proposed to store in the same database data and the ontologies describing their meanings. We call these databases, ontology-based databases (OBDBs). Ontology-based data denotes those data that represent ontology individuals (i.e., instance of ontology classes). To speed up query execution on the top of these OBDBs, efficient representations of ontology-based data become a new challenge. Two main representation schemes have been proposed for ontology-based data: vertical and binary representations with a variant called hybrid. In these schemes, each instance is split into a number of tuples. In this paper, we propose a new representation of ontology-based data, called table per class. It consists in associating a table to each ontology class, where all property values of a class instance are represented in a same row. Columns of this table represent those properties of the ontology class that are associated with a value for at least one instance of this class. We present the architecture of our ontology-based databases and a comparison of the effectiveness of our representation scheme with the existing ones used in Semantic Web applications. Our benchmark involves three categories of queries: (1) targeted class queries, where users know the classes they are querying, (2) no targeted class queries, where users do not know the class(es) they are querying, and (3) update queries.
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Dehainsala, H., Pierra, G., Bellatreche, L. (2007). OntoDB: An Ontology-Based Database for Data Intensive Applications. In: Kotagiri, R., Krishna, P.R., Mohania, M., Nantajeewarawat, E. (eds) Advances in Databases: Concepts, Systems and Applications. DASFAA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71703-4_43
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