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: 11703
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.542286e-05
Overall Rank: 7,798 | 46.50%
DOI: 10.14778/3151106.3151109

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Authors

1. Ibrahim Abdelaziz (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
2. Razen Harbi (Saudi Aramco)
3. Zuhair Khayyat (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
4. Panos Kalnis (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abdelaziz_vldb17,
        title = {{A Survey and Experimental Comparison of Distributed SPARQL Engines for Very Large RDF Data}},
        author = {Abdelaziz, Ibrahim and Harbi, Razen and Khayyat, Zuhair and Kalnis, Panos},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {13},
        pages = {2049--2060},
        doi = {10.14778/3151106.3151109},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3151106.3151109},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,025	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.947875e-05
8,266	A Demonstration of MAGiQ: Matrix Algebra Approach for Solving RDF Graph Queries	2018	VLDB	5.4574671e-05
10,916	LEGO-GraphRAG: Modularizing Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Design Space Exploration	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,958	Lusail: A System for Querying Linked Data at Scale	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
330	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.0002104801
436	Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018504439
500	Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs	2011	VLDB	0.00017413839
542	Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management	2008	VLDB	0.00016838296
1,387	A Distributed Graph Engine for Web Scale RDF Data	2013	VLDB	0.00010949523
1,774	gStore: Answering SPARQL Queries via Subgraph Matching	2011	VLDB	9.7870727e-05
1,803	Towards Effective Partition Management for Large Graphs	2012	SIGMOD	9.724402e-05
2,287	TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing	2014	SIGMOD	8.8034872e-05
6,029	DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication	2015	VLDB	6.0014798e-05
6,111	Scaling Queries over Big RDF Graphs with Semantic Hash Partitioning	2013	VLDB	5.9725149e-05
7,022	SPARTex: A Vertex-Centric Framework for RDF Data Analytics	2015	VLDB	5.7242241e-05
7,777	S2RDF: RDF Querying with SPARQL on Spark	2016	VLDB	5.5461212e-05

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