What is it?
A pre-installed edition of Virtuoso
for Amazon's EC2 Cloud platform.
What does it offer?
From a
Web
Entrepreneur perspective it offers:
- Low cost entry point to a game-changing Web 3.0+ (and beyond)
platform that combines SQL, RDF, XML, and Web Services functionality
- Flexible variable cost model (courtesy of EC2
DevPay) tightly bound to revenue generated by your
services
- Delivers federated and/or centralized model flexibility for you
SaaS based solutions
- Simple entry point for developing and deploying sophisticated
database driven applications (SQL or RDF Linked Data Web oriented)
- Complete framework for exploiting OpenID, OAuth (including Role
enhancements) that simplifies exploitation of these vital Identity
and Data Access
technologies
- Easily implement RDF Linked Data based Mail, Blogging, Wikis,
Bookmarks, Calendaring, Discussion Forums, Tagging,
Social-Networking as Data Space (data containers) features of your
application or service offering
- Instant alleviation of challenges (e.g. service costs and
agility) associated with Data Portability and Open Data Access across
Web 2.0 data silos
- LDAP integration for Intranet / Extranet style applications.
From the DBMS engine perspective it provides you with one or
more pre-configured instances of Virtuoso that enable immediate
exploitation of the following services:
- RDF Database (a Quad Store with SPARQL & SPARUL Language & Protocol
support)
-
SQL Database (with ODBC, JDBC, OLE-DB, ADO.NET, and XMLA driver access)
- XML Database (XML Schema, XQuery/Xpath,
XSLT, Full Text Indexing)
- Full Text Indexing.
From a Middleware perspective it provides:
- RDF Views (Wrappers / Semantic Covers) over SQL, XML, and other
data sources accessible via SOAP or REST style Web Services
- Sponger Service for converting non RDF information resources into RDF Linked Data "on the fly" via a large
collection of pre-installed RDFizer Cartridges.
From the Web Server Platform perspective it provides an
alternative to LAMP stack components such as MySQL
and Apace by offering
- HTTP Web Server
- WebDAV Server
- Web Application Server (includes PHP
runtime hosting)
- SOAP or REST style Web Services Deployment
- RDF Linked Data Deployment
- SPARQL (SPARQL Query Language) and SPARUL (SPARQL Update
Language) endpoints
- Virtuoso Hosted PHP packages for MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, and phpBB3
(just install the relevant Virtuoso Distro. Package).
From the general System Administrator's perspective it
provides:
- Online Backups (Backup Set dispatched to S3 buckets, FTP, or
HTTP/WebDAV server locations)
- Synchronized Incremental Backups to Backup Set locations
- Backup Restore from Backup Set location (without exiting to EC2
shell).
Higher level user oriented offerings include:
- OpenLink Data Explorer front-end for exploring the burgeoning
Linked Data Web
- Ajax based SPARQL Query Builder (iSPARQL) that enables SPARQL
Query construction by Example
- Ajax based SQL Query Builder (QBE) that enables SQL Query
construction by Example.
For Web 2.0 / 3.0 users, developers, and entrepreneurs it offers
it includes Distributed Collaboration Tools & Social Media
realm functionality courtesy of ODS that includes:
- Point of presence on the Linked Data Web that meshes your
Identity and your Data via URIs
- System generated Social Network Profile & Contact Data via
FOAF?
- System generated SIOC (Semantically Interconnected Online
Community) Data Space (that includes a Social Graph)
exposing all your Web data in RDF Linked Data form
- System generated OpenID and automatic integration with
FOAF
- Transparent Data Integration across Facebook, Digg, LinkedIn,
FriendFeed, Twitter, and any other Web 2.0 data space equipped with
RSS / Atom support and/or REST style Web Services
- In-built support for SyncML which enables data synchronization
with Mobile Phones.
How Do I Get Going with It?
About this entry:
Author: Kingsley Uyi Idehen
Published: 11/28/2008 19:27 GMT-0500
Modified: 11/28/2008 16:06 GMT-0500
Tags: webservices , web2.0 , web20 , ajax , atom , rdf , rss , xml , xpath , xquery , xslt , oledb , jdbc , sql , mysql , odbc , semanticweb , web30 , dataweb , foaf , sioc , sparql , socialnetworking , javascript , ods , openlink , virtuoso , DataSpace , identity_20 , openid , unified_storage
Categories: Virtual Database ,
Data Access ,
SQL , Semantic Web , Programming , Web Services (Web 2.0) , Content Syndication
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