A Survey and Experimental Comparison of Distributed SPARQL Engines for Very Large RDF Data

Summary: Survey of 22 distributed SPARQL engines for RDF data, framework, trade-offs, and preprocessing. 12 systems evaluated on preprocessing overhead, query performance, and scalability across 4.3B triples; evaluation framework for reproducibility. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11515
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.6434716e-05
Overall Rank: 7,818 | 45.62%
DOI: -

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10,666	LEGO-GraphRAG: Modularizing Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Design Space Exploration	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024183614
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
476	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.00022226941
558	Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud	2013	SIGMOD	0.00020168032
582	Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs	2011	VLDB	0.00019723083
624	Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management	2008	VLDB	0.00018988711
1,675	A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data	2013	VLDB	0.00010947606
1,976	Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs	2012	SIGMOD	9.8844201e-05
2,196	gStore: Answering SPARQL Queries via Subgraph Matching	2011	VLDB	9.3089621e-05
2,803	TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing	2014	SIGMOD	8.0940362e-05
6,127	DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication	2015	VLDB	5.1981241e-05
6,401	Scaling Queries over Big RDF Graphs with Semantic Hash Partitioning	2013	VLDB	5.0801167e-05
7,905	S2RDF: RDF Querying with SPARQL on Spark	2016	VLDB	4.6211706e-05
8,253	SPARTex: A Vertex-Centric Framework for RDF Data Analytics	2015	VLDB	4.5493149e-05

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