LUBM load speed still seems to be a metric that is quoted in comparisons of RDF stores. Consequently, we too measured the load time of LUBM 8000, 1,068-million triples, on the newest Virtuoso.
The real time for the load was 161m 3s. The rate was 110,532 triples-per-second. The hardware was one machine with 2 x Xeon 5410 (quad core, 2.33 GHz) and 16G 667 MHz RAM. The software was Virtuoso 6 Cluster, configured into 8 partitions (processes) — one partition per CPU core. Each partition had its database striped over 6 disks total; the 6 disks on the system were shared between the 8 database processes.
The load was done on 8 streams, one per server process. At the beginning of the load, the CPU usage was 740% with no disk; at the end, it was around 700% with 25% disk wait. 100% counts here for one CPU core or one disk being constantly busy.
The RDF store was configured with the default two indices over quads, these being GSPO and OGPS. Text indexing of literals was not enabled. No materialization of entailed triples was made.
We think that LUBM loading is not a realistic benchmark for the world but since other people publish such numbers, so do we.