Virtuoso Open-Source Edition

What's New

2011-11-01: New VOS 6.1.4 Release

Virtuoso 6.1.4 includes Database Engine and SPARQL optimizations and enhancements, HTTP enhancements such as SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store and SPARQL CRUD, new Sponger cartridges for Eventbrite, Eventful, Foursquare, Google+, Google Place, Google Product, Google Profile, Gowalla, Guardian, Hyperpublic, Jigsaw, LinkedIn?, Plancast, ProgrammableWeb?, Seatgeek, Seevl, SimpleGeo?, Upcoming, XRD, Zappos, and Zoopla, and fixes to existing cartridges. Fixes include deadlock handling, memory handling and leaks, and SPARQL and SPARUL fixes. The Jena and Sesame2 drivers have been updated.

2011-03-30: New VOS 6.1.3 Release

Virtuoso 6.1.3 includes Database Engine optimizations, character normalization; SPARQL optimizations and enhancements; HTTP enhancements like CORS; new Sponger cartridges for EOL, Evri, Google Books, Groupon, hNews, hRecipe, ProductWiki?, RDFa, RDFohloh, and many others .

ODS applications support IMAP, S/MIME, Google, LinkedIn?, Twitter, SWF and the Salmon Slap protocol.

Fixes include deadlock handling, memory handling and leaks; SPARQL and SPARUL fixes; and updated Jena and Sesame drivers.

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2010-07-09: New VOS 6.1.2 Release

Virtuoso 6.1.2 WebID Protocol based authentication for ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB, and ADO.NET client connections; client- and server-side Semantic Pingback APIs; initial support for OData's Atom and JSON feed formats with regards to Linked Data Graph Serialization; support for subproperties of Inverse Functional Properties (owl:inverseFunctionalProperty); improved inferencing support in Jena and Sesame RDF providers; Client and Server support for PubSubHubbub Protocol.

2010-03-31: New VOS 5.0.14 Release

Virtuoso 5.0.14 includes WebID Protocol login support for SQL clients; OData and importing CSV documents; improvements to the JDBC driver; updated support for Google maps, Jena and Sesame; support for WebID and minor fixes including memory leaks, deadlocks, SPARQL encoding and n3/nt format-detection.

Download, Build, and Use -- Get Started!

• Introduction and History
• Download and CVS access
• Licensing Terms
• Before you start
• Build Overview
  • Specific notes for Linux Distributions
    • CentOS?
    • Debian GNU/Linux?
    • Fedora Core?
    • Ubuntu?
• Getting Started:
  • Database: Conductor
  • Utilities that come with Virtuoso
  • Tutorials
  • Windows-specific guide
• Mailing lists

How Do I...

• Get Virtuoso?
  • Download the Open Source Edition
  • Download the Commercial Edition
• Install Virtuoso?
  • Install the Open Source Edition
  • Install the Commercial Edition
• Upgrade Virtuoso?
  • Upgrade from Release 4.x or earlier, to Release 5.x
  • Upgrade from Release 5.x through Release 6.0.x, to Release 6.1.0 and later
• Performance Tune the Virtuoso RDF Store?
• Insert RDF Data into Virtuoso?
• Exploit Virtuoso's Replication Functionality re. Web based Solutions??
• Perform RDF Graph Replication??
• Perform Bulk Loading of RDF Source Files into one or more Graph IRIs?
• Perform Bulk Loading of CSV Files??
• Perform Dump and Reload of RDF Graphs??
• Perform Dump of RDF Graph based on Inference Rules??
• Perform Dump of RDFView Graph data??
• Remove all triples from Virtuoso Server??
• Set Standard Prefix Names for common vocabularies??
• Use Microsoft's PivotViewer as a front-end to Linked Data sources??
• Use SPARQL to produce dynamic CXML collections for Microsoft's PivotViewer?
• Use the Virtuoso Faceted Search & Find Engine?
• Use Faceted Navigation to Explore Virtuoso hosted Linked Data??
• Create RDF based Linked Data Views over ODBC or JDBC accessible Relational Data Sources?
• Use Virtuoso's HTML based Wizard to Generate RDF based Linked Data from Relational Databases?
• Deploy Linked Data using Virtuoso?
• Learn about the Virtuoso RDFization Middleware called the "Sponger"?
• Interact with Sponger Linked Data Middleware via REST patterns?
• How can I Setup Virtuoso Sponger Access Control List (ACL)??
• Develop Virtuoso Hosted Applications using PHP?
• Learn About Virtuoso's SPARQL Query Language Support, By Example?
• Secure My SPARQL Endpoint using WebID Protocol?
• How Use My SPARQL Endpoint To Save Results Into Its host WebDAV Repository??
• Use WebID Protocol from a command line?
• Optimize my SPARQL queries' performance??
• Configure Virtuoso wide character / unicode / UTF-8 support for SPARQL querying??
• Set WebID Protocol using the Virtuoso Authentication Server UI?
• Use WebID Protocol for enhanced ODS-Briefcase (WebDAV) Access Control Lists (ACLs)?
• Configure Virtuoso+ODS instance as an X.509 Certificate Authority?
• Set Up the Virtuoso HTTPS Listener??
• Configure WebID Protocol ODBC Login??
• Manage RDF Graphs security levels?
• Administer a Virtuoso instance via my Browser?
• Obtain and Install the Virtuoso EC2 AMI?
• Access Virtuoso's Quad Store via RDF Frameworks such as: Jena, Sesame, or Redland?
• Configure Virtuoso Sesame HTTP Repository?
• Configure Hibernate Connection to Virtuoso using JDBC Driver?
• Attach ODBC or JDBC accessible Data Sources to the Virtuoso Virtual Database Engine?
• Set utf8 for ODBC or JDBC connections?
• Learn about Virtuoso functionality via Tutorials?
• Learn about the Virtuoso SPARQL-BI extensions and TPC-H As Linked Data?
• Customize the SPARQL Endpoint Page?
• Use SPARQL inside XSLT??
• Connect to a Virtuoso instance via ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, and XMLA clients?
• Configure Virtuoso Data Access Clients for Connection Fail over and Load Balancing?
• Use the Visual iSPARQL Query Builder against a Virtuoso Instance?
• Use OAuth for authentication, SPARQL queries, ubiquity commands?
• Use ADO.NET 3.5 & Entity Frameworks with Virtuoso?
• Use ADO.NET Data Object Services with Virtuoso?
• Sync data from Amazon S3 to Virtuoso and back?
• Setup Crawler Jobs using the Conductor??
• How to assign SPARQL_SPONGE privileges to user SPARQL?
• Deploy phpBB3 using Virtuoso?
• Deploy Drupal using Virtuoso?
• Deploy WordPress using Virtuoso?
• Deploy MediaWiki using Virtuoso?
• Manage Resource Versions?
• Use the Virtuoso URL Shortener??

FAQ

• Virtuoso 6 - FAQ
• Virtuoso Product Family - FAQ

Troubleshooting

• Virtuoso Troubleshooting Resources

Functionality Realms

• Object-Relational Database for SQL, XML, RDF, and Free Text that includes Java and .NET runtime hosting
• RDF store and SPARQL
• WebDAV Server
• Web Services Platform for SOA
• Web Application Server for Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, and phpBB

Applications Built using Virtuoso

• OpenLink Data Spaces

Client Connectivity Tools

• Visual iSPARQL Query Builder

Extensions

Language Runtime Hosting

• Java
• Mono
• PHP

Plugins

• ImageMagick

Utility Web Services

• Faceted Browsing ( Virtuoso 6.0 only)

Additional Information

• Virtuoso Tips and Tricks Collection?
• Technical White Papers and Articles
• Presentations