A quick collection of popular SPARQL and linked data related benchmarks out there.

1. Benchmarks
What benchmarks are commonly
used and what they mean

2. Overview
• SP2Bench
• LUBM
• BSBM
• UOBM
• SIB
• DBPedia SPARQL
Benchmark
• LODIB
• FedBench
• THALIA Testbed
• Benchmark for Spatial
Semantic Web
Systems
• LODQA
• LinkBench

3. SP2Bench
• Is language specific: SPARQL-based
performance benchmark.
• Components: data generator, query set
• provides a scalable RDF data generator and a
set of benchmark queries, designed to test
typical SPARQL operator constellations and
RDF data access patterns.
• Example comparison:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.4627v2.pdf

4. LUBM
• The Lehigh University Benchmark
• “The Lehigh University Benchmark is developed
to facilitate the evaluation of Semantic Web
repositories in a standard and systematic way.
The benchmark is intended to evaluate the
performance of those repositories with respect to
extensional queries over a large data set that
commits to a single realistic ontology.“
• Components: ontology, data generator, test
queries, tester
• http://swat.cse.lehigh.edu/projects/lubm/

5. BSBM
• Berlin SPARQL Benchmark
• provides for comparing the performance of
RDF and Named Graph stores as well as RDF-mapped
relational databases and other
systems that expose SPARQL endpoints.
Designed along an e-commerce use case.
SPARQL and SQL version available.
• http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.
de/bizer/berlinsparqlbenchmark/

6. UOBM
• The Ontology Benchmark
• Extends the LUBM benchmark in terms of
inference and scalability testing.
• Components: ontology and test data set
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/l0wu54
3x26350462/University

7. SIB
• Social Network Intelligence Benchmark (SIB)
• A benchmark suite developed by people at
CWI and Openlink taking the schema from
Social Networks for generating test areas
where RDF/SPARQL can truly excel, and
challenging query processing over highly
connected graph.
• http://www.w3.org/wiki/Social_Network_Inte
lligence_BenchMark

8. DBPedia SPARQL Benchmark
• Designed to be benchmark against DBPedia
data in order to provide a clear picture of real
world performance.
• “Performance Assessment with Real Queries
on Real Data.”
• http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2011/VLDB_AKSW
Benchmark/public.pdf

9. LODIB
• The Linked Data Integration Benchmark
• Is a benchmark for comparing the expressivity
as well as the runtime performance of Linked
Data translation/integration systems.
• http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.
de/bizer/lodib/

10. FedBench
• Benchmark for measuring the performance of
federated SPARQL query processing.
• ISWC2011 whitepaper: https://www.uni-koblenz.
de/~goerlitz/publications/ISWC2011-
FedBench.pdf

11. THALIA Testbed
• Is designed to test the expressiveness of
relational-to-RDF mapping languages.
• http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/Communi
tyProjects/LinkingOpenData/THALIATestbed

12. Benchmark for Spatial Semantic Web
Systems
• Extends LUBM with sample spatial data.
• https://filebox.vt.edu/users/dkolas/public/ssb
m/

13. LODQA
• The Linked Open Data Quality Assessment
• Is a benchmark for comparing data quality
assessment and data fusion systems.
• https://filebox.vt.edu/users/dkolas/public/ssb
m/

14. LinkBench
• A database benchmark that is designed for the
Facebook Social Graph.
• Whitepaper:
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/pubs/sig
mod-linkbench-2013.pdf
• https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/
linkbench-a-database-benchmark-
for-the-social-graph/
10151391496443920

15. Performance Results
• Results provided by store implementers themselves:
– Virtuoso BSBM benchmark results (native RDF store versus mapped relational
database)
– Jena TDB BSBM benchmark results (native RDF store)
– OWLIM Benchmark results (LUBM, BSBM and Linked Data loading/inference)
– SemWeb .NET library BSBM benchmark results
– Virtuoso LUBM benchmark results
– AllegroGraph 2.0 Benchmark for LUBM-50-0
– Sesame NativeStore LUBM benchmark results
– RacerPro LUBM benchmark results
– SwiftOWLIM benchmark results for the LUBM and City benchmark (from slide
27 onwards)
– Oracle 11g benchmark results for the LUBM and Uniprot benchmark (from
slide 20 onwards)
– Jena SDB/Query performance and SDB/Loading performance
– Bigdata BSBM V3 Reduced Query Mix benchmark results

16. Performance Results
• Results provided by third parties:
– Cudre-Mauroux, et al.: NoSQL Databases for RDF: An Empirical Evaluation (November 2013,
Uses the BSBM benchmark with workloads from 10 million to 1 billion triples to benchmark
several NoSQL databases).
– Peter Boncz, Minh-Duc Pham: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Results for Virtuoso, Jena TDB,
BigData, and BigOWLIM (April 2013, 100 million to 150 billion triples, Explore and Business
Intelligence Use Cases).
– Christian Bizer, Andreas Schultz: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Results for Virtuoso, Jena TDB,
4store, BigData, and BigOWLIM(February 2011, 100 and 200 million triples, Explore and
Update Use Cases).
– Christian Bizer, Andreas Schultz: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Results for Virtuoso, Jena TDB and
BigOWLIM(November 2009, 100 and 200 million triples).
– L.Sidirourgos et al.: Column-Store Support for RDF Data Management: not all swans are white.
An experimental analysis along two dimensions – triple-store vs. vertically-partitioned and
row-store vs. column-store – individually, before analyzing their combined effects. In VLDB
2008.
– Christian Bizer, Andreas Schultz: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Results. Benchmark along an e-commerce
use case comparing Virtuoso, Sesame, Jena TDB, D2R Server and MySQL with
datasets ranging from 250,000 to 100,000,000 triples and setting the results into relation to
two RDBMS. 2008. (Note: As discussed in Orri Erling's blog, the SQL mix results did not
accurately reflect steady-state of all players, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Warm-up
steps will change for future runs.)

17. Performance Results
• Results provided by third parties (cont):
– Michael Schmidt et al.: SP2Bench: A SPARQL Performance Benchmark. Benchmark based on the DBLP data
set comparing current versions of ARQ, Redland, Sesame, SDB, and Virtuoso. TR, 2008 (short version of the
TR to appear in ICDE 2009).
– Michael Schmidt et al.: An Experimental Comparison of RDF Data Management Approaches in a SPARQL
Benchmark Scenario. Benchmarking Relational Database schemes on top of SP2Bench Suite. In ISWC 2008.
– Atanas Kiryakov: Measurable Targets for Scalable Reasoning
– Baolin Liu and Bo Hu: An Evaluation of RDF Storage Systems for Large Data Applications
– Christian Becker: RDF Store Benchmarks with DBpedia comparing Virtuoso, SDB and Sesame. 2007
– Kurt Rohloff et al.: An Evaluation of Triple-Store Technologies for Large Data Stores. Comparing Sesame, Jena
and AllegroGraph. 2007
– Christian Weiske: SPARQL Engines Benchmark Results
– Ryan Lee: Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications comparing Jena, Kowari, 3store, Sesame. 2004
– Martin Svihala, Ivan Jelinek: Benchmarking RDF Production Tools Paper comparing the performance of
relational database to RDF mapping tools (METAmorphoses, D2RQ, SquirrelRDF) with native RDF stores
(Jena, Sesame)
– Michael Streatfield, Hugh Glaser: Benchmarking RDF Triplestores, 2005

18. Observations
• LUBM and BSBM results are shown often on the
major players’ own websites.
• SP2Bench is harder to find on their websites, and
other resources.
• A lot of the reported results by companies
highlights performance on a very high
performance computer, not commodity
computers.
• http://www.w3.org/wiki/RdfStoreBenchmarking