RedStore

What is RedStore ?

RedStore is a lightweight RDF triplestore written in C using the Redland library.

Features:

• SPARQL over HTTP support
• Compatible with rdfproc command line tool for offline operations
• An HTTP interface that is compatible with 4store.
• Only build dependancy is Redland.
• Unit tests for most of the HTTP server code.

The source code is on GitHub: github.com/njh/redstore

Download

• redstore-0.4-macosx.zip (RedStore 0.4 Mac OS X Binary)
• redstore-0.4.tar.gz (RedStore 0.4 Source Code)
• redstore-0.3.tar.gz (RedStore 0.3 Source Code)
• redstore-0.2.tar.gz (RedStore 0.2 Source Code)
• redstore-0.1.tar.gz (RedStore 0.1 Source Code)
• check-20100409.tar.gz (Check 0.9.9 pre-release)

Usage

redstore [options] [<name>]
   -p <port>       Port number to run HTTP server on (default 8080)
   -b <address>    Bind to specific address (default all)
   -s <type>       Set the graph storage type
   -t <options>    Storage options
   -n              Create a new store / replace old (default no)
   -v              Enable verbose mode
   -q              Enable quiet mode

Add a URI to the triplestore:

curl --data uri=http://example.com/file.rdf http://localhost:8080/load

Add a file to the triplestore:

curl -T file.rdf 'http://localhost:8000/data/http://example.com/data'

Add a file to the triplestore with type specified:

curl -T file.rdf -H 'Content-Type: application/x-turtle' 'http://localhost:8000/data/data.rdf'

You can delete graphs with in the same manner, using the DELETE HTTP verb:

curl -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/data/http://example.com/data'

Query using the SPARQL Query Tool:

sparql-query http://localhost:8000/sparql 'SELECT * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 10'

Requirements

The following versions of Redland are recommend:

• raptor-1.4.21
• rasqal-0.9.20 (unreleased)
• redland-1.0.10

Installation

RedStore uses a standard automake build process:

./configure
make
make install

Supported Storage Modules

You can use any of the Redland Storage Modules that supports contexts:

• hashes
• mysql
• memory (Default)
• postgresql
• sqlite
• virtuoso

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Nicholas J Humfrey <njh@aelius.com>