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Semantic Publishing Benchmark (LDBC-SPB)

The LDBC Semantic Publishing Benchmark is an LDBC benchmark for testing the performance of RDF engines inspired by the Media/Publishing industry. In particular, LDBC worked with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to define this benchmark, for which the BBC donated workloads, ontologies and data.

Main characteristics:

  • LDBC worked with the BBC to define this benchmark
  • very comprehensive, including data generation, multiple workloads, query result validation, extensive performance metrics
  • well documented
  • reasoning using OWL2-RL rule-set
  • ontology
  • complex queries
  • audit results published by Ontotext and Virtuoso only

Some data loading results have been published by Stardog here.

Detailed information on the benchmark can be found in this pdf.