Apples and Oranges: A Comparison of RDF Benchmarks and Real RDF Datasets

Summary: Compares RDF benchmarks to real RDF data, showing benchmarks fail to reflect real datasets. Proposes new metrics and a principled generator that converts any dataset into a benchmark via integer programming; first methodological RDF benchmark study. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4379
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 7.0841622e-05
Overall Rank: 3,445 | 76.06%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,963	Building an Efficient RDF Store Over a Relational Database	2013	SIGMOD	9.9431532e-05
2,996	Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking	2011	VLDB	7.7580926e-05
4,728	Workload Matters: Why RDF Databases Need a New Design	2014	VLDB	5.9617831e-05
7,760	Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database	2016	VLDB	4.6548456e-05
7,904	S2RDF: RDF Querying with SPARQL on Spark	2016	VLDB	4.616742e-05
8,465	Inferray: fast in-memory RDF inference	2016	VLDB	4.4999659e-05
8,574	RBench: Application-Specific RDF Benchmarking	2015	SIGMOD	4.4884743e-05
8,977	A Principled Approach to Bridging the Gap between Graph Data and their Schemas	2014	VLDB	4.4145674e-05
10,867	Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,746	Stylus: A Strongly-Typed Store for Serving Massive RDF Data	2018	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,928	Left Bit Right: For SPARQL Join Queries with OPTIONAL Patterns (Left-outer-joins)	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,151	SPAM: A SPARQL Analysis and Manipulation Tool	2012	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
415	Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning	2007	VLDB	0.00023774838
1,212	RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF	2008	VLDB	0.00013255692
1,820	A Normal Form for XML Documents	2002	PODS	0.00010410152
5,160	Prefix Based Numbering Schemes for XML: Techniques, Applications and Performances	2008	VLDB	5.650425e-05

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