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What are the popular free/paid .net based RDF stores?

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Rob Vesse
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Ankit Jain
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Rob Vesse · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-28 14:11:15Z UTC

As far as I know the only entirely .Net based Triple Store is Semantics Server from Intellidimension which is a paid product backed by SQL Server which requires licenses for both their product and SQL Server in order to run.

As far as free libraries go both dotNetRDF (disclaimer: which I develop) and SemWeb support connecting to various different 3rd party Triple Stores.

dotNetRDF supports AllegroGraph, 4store, Joseki, Sesame, Talis and Virtuoso
SemWeb I think can support Virtuoso but I've never tried this personally, I think you may also need to install LinqToRdf to do this

Both these libraries also can create SQL backed stores using various different backing SQL databases but these stores will not be as efficient as connecting to a dedicated triple store.

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Key message to take away from this is that there are lots of good non .Net Triple Stores out there already and you should take advantage of those as many can run in a Windows/.Net environment and you can use .Net libraries to communicate with them if like me you prefer to work in ,Net

castagna · Answer 2 · 2010-07-29 09:50:25Z UTC

See also: Jena .NET (However, I've never used it myself).

What is Jena .NET?

Jena .NET is .NET port or the well-established open source Jena library. Jena is natively a Java library, and so Jena .NET uses the IKVM virtual machine to expose the Jena class framework to the .NET CLR.

What does this mean? It means that as new updates to the Jena library are released by the active Jena working group, these new updates and associated benefits can immediately get integrated into the Jena .NET library.

-- http://www.linkeddatatools.com/faq

Ankit Jain · Answer 3 · 2010-07-30 18:21:57Z UTC

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Lately I noticed Sesame has HTTP component that can be used for interfacing. An application in C# and semantic component in Java served over HTTP (REST or something).

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Ankit Jain
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dotNetRDF already has a connector class that uses the Sesame HTTP protocol to connect to any compliant store - we use this for connections to Sesame and AllegroGraph – Rob Vesse Aug 2 at 7:13

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