Franz Launches AllegroGraph 4.0, the First Native RDF Database in the Industry

Recently, Franz, Inc. a well known provider of Graph Database technology for the Semantic Web announced AllegroGraph 4.0. It claims to be the first native RDF database in industry with Enterprise Online Transaction Processing capabilities. This advancement in database technology gives companies the facility to concurrently add, query and dynamically reason over large scale semantic datasets by using ACID compliance and transaction management.

 

In a release Dr. Jans Aasman, the CEO of Franz, Inc. said, 'In order for Semantic Web technologies to be broadly adopted in transaction-centric and time-sensitive markets such as CRM, financial services, security, social networking and telecommunications -- the ability to conduct up-to-the-minute queries across heterogeneous data sources is paramount.'

 

AllegroGraph is a recent high-performance database with the capability of disk-based storage. It helps the database to scale to billions of triples without deteriorating superior performance. AllegroGraph 4.0 is an enterprise-class database with ACID transactions, complete recovery, 100 percent read concurrency and automatic backups. The new version adds features such as dynamic and automatic indexing, advanced free text indexing and deletion of duplicate triples.

 

In a release Bill Guinn, the CTO of Amdocs (News - Alert) Product Enabler Group said, 'Semantic technologies such as Franz's AllegroGraph database, can enable real-time, 24/7 customer insight. When used to power a decision engine in the transactional flow of business, cost reductions in customer care, leaps forward in customer satisfaction, and significant improvements in product uptake can result.'

 

AllegroGraph offers an event-based view of datasets to their users. Events are the entities having a specific type i.e., financial transactions, customer purchases, and meetings; a number of actors including payee, payer, patient, terrorist; a start time; an end time and a location. AllegroGraph 4.0 facilitates users to reason about types of events; link events to companies and people through social networking algorithms; and link to events and places through an easily usable layer of temporal reasoning rules. A geospatial engine that has the same speed as that of a specific spatial databases helps to improve event analysis.

 

At the forthcoming 2010 Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California, Dr. Aasman and Bill Guinn is planning to deliver presentations on the vital features of AllegroGraph 4.0 and the value of using semantic technology for customer-centric applications respectively.