Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (BSBM)

The SPARQL Query Language for RDF and the SPARQL Protocol for RDF are implemented by a growing number of storage systems and are used within enterprise and open web settings. As SPARQL is taken up by the community there is a growing need for benchmarks to compare the performance of storage systems that expose SPARQL endpoints via the SPARQL protocol. Such systems include native RDF stores, Named Graph stores, systems that map relational databases into RDF, and SPARQL wrappers around other kinds of data sources.

The Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (BSBM) defines a suite of benchmarks for comparing the performance of these systems across architectures. The benchmark is built around an e-commerce use case in which a set of products is offered by different vendors and consumers have posted reviews about products. The benchmark query mix illustrates the search and navigation pattern of a consumer looking for a product.

More information about BSBM can be found in:

• The project website at University of Mannheim: http://wbsg.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/bizer/berlinsparqlbenchmark/
• Christian Bizer, Andreas Schultz. The Berlin SPARQL Benchmark. In Int. J. Semantic Web Inf. Syst. 5(2): 1-24 (2009). DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2009040101