overview of the RDF graph database-as-a-service (GraphDB based) on the Self-Service Semantic Suite (S4) http://s4.ontotext.com presentation for the AKSW Group of the University of Leipzig

1. RDF Database-as-a-Service with S4
Marin Dimitrov, CTO of Ontotext
Apr 27th, 2015
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2. • Self-Service Semantic Suite (S4)
• RDF DBaaS on AWS
• Demo
Contents
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3. About Ontotext
• Provides products & solutions for content
enrichment and metadata management
– 70 employees, headquarters in Sofia (Bulgaria)
– Sales presence in London, Washington & Boston
• Major clients and industries
– Media & Publishing
– Health Care & Life Sciences
– Cultural Heritage & Digital Libraries
– Government
– Education
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4. The Self-Service Semantic Suite
(S4)
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5. • On-demand capabilities for text analytics, content
enrichment and metadata management
– Text analytics for news, life sciences and social media
– RDF graph database as-a-service
– Access to large open knowledge graphs
• Available anytime, anywhere
– Simple RESTful services
• Simple, pay-per-use pricing
– No upfront commitments
What is S4?
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6. • Enables quick prototyping
– Instantly available, no provisioning & operations
required
– Focus on building applications, don’t worry about
infrastructure
• Free tier
– Even bigger free quotas for research groups & projects
• Easy to start, shorter learning curve
– Various add-ons, SDKs and demo code
• Based on enterprise semantic technology by
Ontotext
S4 benefits
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7. • Text analytics services
– News annotation
– News categorisation
– Biomedical
– Twitter
• Entity linking & disambiguation
– Mappings to DBpedia & GeoNames instances
– Mappings to biomedical data sources (LinkedLifeData)
• HTML, MS Word, XML, plain text input
• Simple JSON output
Text analytics with S4
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8. News analytics example
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S4 result
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9. • Available from AWS Marketplace
• Variety of hardware configurations
– 2 to 8 CPU cores / 8 to 61 GB RAM
– IOPS performance & encryption (EBS)
• Manage large data volumes
• Pay-per-hour pricing
Self-managed RDF DB in the Cloud
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10. • Low-cost DBaaS available 24/7
• Ideal for small & moderate data volumes
• Instantly deploy new databases when needed
• Zero administration: automated operations,
maintenance & upgrades
• Users pay only for the actual database utilisation
– Number of triples stored + number of queries per month
Fully managed RDF DB in the Cloud
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11. • SPARQL query endpoint to the FactForge
knowledge graph
– 500 million entities / 5 billion triples
• Key LOD datasets integrated
– DBpedia, Freebase, GeoNames, WordNet
– Dublin Core, SKOS, PROTON ontologies and
vocabularies
Knowledge graphs with S4
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12. • (available soon)
• Knowledge Graph bundles
– DBpedia, Wikidata, GeoNames, …
– GraphDB RDF database (self-managed @ AWS)
– 3rd party interactive data exploration tool (faceted
search, data navigation, dynamic charts)
• Get instant & reliable access to KGs without
dealing with provisioning, data import,
maintenance, …
Knowledge graphs with S4
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13. • Java & C# SDKs
• Sample code
– Java, C#, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Groovy
– Curl examples for the most impatient
• GATE & UIMA plugins
• Firefox & Chrome add-ons
• Online documentation
S4 for developers
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14. • DaPaaS & ProDataMarket
– Goal: Open Data / Linked Data publishing & hosting
– S4 role: scalable Linked Data hosting infrastructure
• KConnect
– Goal: semantic annotation, search & analytics for
healthcare data
– S4 role: scalable text analytics & RDF data management
infrastructure
Research projects using S4
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15. Fully Managed RDF Database-
as-a-Service
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16. • Elastic
– dynamically adapt to data & query volumes
• High availability & resilience
– no SPFs, “graceful degradation” of performance upon
failures
• Cost efficient
– cost aware architecture
– Key aspect for Open Data scenarios like DaPaaS &
ProDataMarket
• Isolation of the multi-tenant databases
• Fair use of shared resources
Requirements
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17. • Micro DB
– Up to 1M triples
– FREE, available now
• Extra Small DB (10M triples)
• Small DB (50M)
• Medium DB (250M)
• Large DB (1B)
RDF DBaaS options on S4
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18. • AWS based
– Storage, compute, load balancing, integration services…
• Ontotext GraphDB for the database instances
• OpenRDF REST services
• Docker for containerisation
• Network-attached volumes (EBS) for data storage
• A DBaaS on S4 is…
– A GraphDB instance
– Running within a Docker container
– With a private EBS data volume
Implementation
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19. • Routing nodes
– Expose OpenRDF RESTful services to apps
– Access control & quota checks
– Forward client requests to the proper data node
– Temporarily queue requests when necessary
• Data nodes
– Multiple Docker containers (GDB+EBS) per node
• Coordinator (single)
– Distribute DB initialisation / creation tasks to data
nodes
• Management Console
S4 DBaaS architecture
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20. S4 DBaaS architecture
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REST apps
3rd party RDF
tools
Quota&AccessControl
routers
data nodes
coordinator
EBS
backups
SNS
Docker
Repository
Account
management
Quota
management
reporting
Monitoring
& Logging Dynamo
Amazon S3
images

21. • CRUD
– Router node receives a request
– Routes it to the proper data node & container
– Receives a response, forwards it back to client app
• Routing updates
– Data nodes push notification via SNS – “hearbeats” +
changes regarding the hosted DBs (if any)
– Each routing node receives the notifications (via SNS)
and updates its routing tables
– Coordinator also receives notifications, learns which
DBs are operational / down for maintenance
Normal operations
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22. Failure case #1 – data node crash
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REST apps
3rd party RDF
tools
Quota&AccessControl
routers
data nodes
coordinator
EBS
SNS
Docker
Repository
12
2
2
3

23. Recovery from a data node crash
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REST apps
3rd party RDF
Visualisation
Quota&AccessControl
routers
data nodes
Coordinator
EBS
SNS
Docker
Repository
1
2
3+4
56
6
6
7
Auto Scaling

24. Failure case #2 – router crash &
recovery
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REST apps
3rd party RDF
tools
Quota&AccessControl
routers
data nodes
coordinator
EBS
SNS
Docker
Repository
13
Auto Scaling
4
5
6
7
8
2

25. • (open connections from client apps to the node
are terminated)
• Auto-scaler starts a new router node
– New router subscribes to SNS for heartbeats & updates
• Load balancer starts sending new client requests
to router
– Router puts them in the local queue (if routing table is
still incomplete)
• Heartbeats from data nodes are received
– Routing information is now complete
– Router starts sending the queued requests to data
nodes
Recovery from a router crash
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26. Failure case #3 – coordinator crash &
recovery
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REST apps
3rd party RDF
tools
Quota&AccessControl
routers
data nodes
coordinator
EBS
SNS
Docker
Repository
2
Auto Scaling
4
5
6
6
3
Create DB 1

27. • Routers can route requests to data nodes as usual
– … but new DBs cannot be created temporarily
– … and data nodes with free container slots can’t get
info on DBs waiting for initialisation
• AWS Auto-scaler starts a new Coordinator node
– Coordinator reads a list of all registered DBs from the
metadata store & subscribes to SNS
• Coordinator starts receiving heartbeats & updates
from data nodes
– … learns which DBs are operational / pending
– … and resumes distributing new / pending DBs
initialisation tasks to the data nodes with free slots
Failure case #3 – coordinator crash &
recovery
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28. • Combination of coordinator + data node + routing
node crash – same as #1 + #2 + #3
• Routers depend on data nodes
• Data nodes depend on Coordinator
• Coordinator does not depend on other nodes
– No heartbeats coming, means all DBs are down
– Start distributing DB initialisation tasks whenever a
request comes from a working data node
– Eventually, all data nodes are up, DBs initialised,
heartbeats & routing updates start coming
– … and routers can start routing client requests
Composite failure & recovery
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29. Management interface
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Micro, XS, S, M, or L
I/O performance
R/O access to Open
Data services or
open knowledge
graphs

30. Management interface
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DBaaS endpoint
DB details summary
Backup, export, change
settings, delete
Run a test query

31. • Gradually introduce XS, S, M and L instances
• Integration with the GraphDB Workbench
management UI
• LDF based containers
• Multi-datacenter deployment
• Replication across datacenters (single master)
Roadmap
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32. • “On-demand Text Analytics and Metadata
Management with S4” (ESaaSA @ CLOSER’2015)
• “Text Analytics and Linked Data Management As-
a-Service with S4” (Wasabi @ ESWC’2015)
• “Low-cost Open Data As-a-Service in the Cloud”
(SemDev @ ESWC’2015)
More Details
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33. Demo
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34. • (create an account & generate an API key pair)
• Create a new DB
• Create a new repository in the DB
– via the REST API / OpenRDF Java SDK / curl
– …or via UI tools like the OpenRDF Workbench
• Import sample data (REST / OpenRDF Workbench)
• Run a query through the public SPARQL endpoint
Demo scenario
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35. Demo data – Universities in Saxony
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36. #1 Create a database
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37. #2a Create a repository & load data
(curl)
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@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>.
@prefix rep: <http://www.openrdf.org/config/repository#>.
@prefix sr: <http://www.openrdf.org/config/repository/sail#>.
@prefix sail: <http://www.openrdf.org/config/sail#>.
@prefix graphdb: <http://www.ontotext.com/trree/owlim#>.
[] a rep:Repository ;
rep:repositoryID “test01" ;
rdfs:label "Description of my repository" ;
rep:repositoryImpl [
rep:repositoryType "openrdf:SailRepository" ;
sr:sailImpl [
graphdb:ruleset "owl-horst-optimized" ;
sail:sailType "owlim:Sail" ;
graphdb:base-URL "http://example.org/graphdb#" ;
graphdb:repository-type "file-repository" ;
]
].
Repository
configuration file
config.ttl
• Repository name: ”test01”
• OWL-Horst reasoning ruleset

38. #2a Create a repository & load data
(curl)
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API_KEY=…
KEY_SECRET=…
USER=…
DATABASE=…
REPOSITORY=…
SERVICE_ENDPOINT="https://$API_KEY:$KEY_SECRET@rdf.s4.ontotext.com/$USER/$DATABASE"
curl -X POST -H “Content-Type:application/x-turtle”
-T config.ttl $SERVICE_ENDPOINT/repositories/SYSTEM/rdf-graphs/service?graph=http://example.com#g1
curl -X POST -H “Content-Type:application/x-turtle”
-d “<http://example.com#g1> a <http://www.openrdf.org/config/repository#RepositoryContext>.”
$SERVICE_ENDPOINT/repositories/SYSTEM/statements
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/rdf+xml;charset=UTF-8" -T example.rdf
$SERVICE_ENDPOINT/repositories/$REPOSITORY/statements
Create a repository
Upload sample data
from example.rdf
• User: 4730361296
• Database: demo01
• Repository: test01
• Configuration: config.ttl

39. #2b Create a repository & load data
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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DBaaS endpoint

40. #2b Create a repository & load data
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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41. #2b Create a repository & load data
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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DBaaS endpoint

42. #2b Create a repository & load data
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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43. #2b Create a repository & load data
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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44. #3a SPARQL query
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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45. #3a SPARQL query
(OpenRDF Workbench)
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46. #3b SPARQL query
(from the S4 Management Console)
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PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
PREFIX dbp-prop: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX dbp-ont: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT ?name ?numberOfStudents ?staff ?established
WHERE {
dbpedia:University_of_Leipzig rdfs:label ?name ;
dbp-prop:students ?numberOfStudents ;
dbp-prop:staff ?staff ;
dbp-prop:established ?established .
}

47. • S4 provides an enterprise RDF DBaaS
• Resilient design, high availability
• Instantly available whenever needed, easy to use,
OpenRDF REST services
• Zero administration: automated operations,
maintenance & upgrades
• Free DBs up to 1M triples (even more for research
teams & projects)
• Check out http://s4.ontotext.com
Key takeaways
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48. Thank you!
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