We are happy to announce SANSA 0.5 – the fifth release of the Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA employs distributed computing via Apache Spark and Flink in order to allow scalable machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs.
- Website: http://sansa-stack.net
- GitHub: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack
- Download: http://sansa-stack.net/downloads-usage/
- ChangeLog: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack/SANSA-Stack/releases
You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/.
The following features are currently supported by SANSA:
- Reading and writing RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, RDF/XML, N-Quad format
- Reading OWL files in various standard formats
- Query heterogeneous sources (Data Lake) using SPARQL – CSV, Parquet, MongoDB, Cassandra, JDBC (MySQL, SQL Server, etc.) are supported
- Support for multiple data partitioning techniques
- SPARQL querying via Sparqlify and Ontop
- Graph-parallel querying of RDF using SPARQL (1.0) via GraphX traversals (experimental)
- RDFS, RDFS Simple and OWL-Horst forward chaining inference
- RDF graph clustering with different algorithms
- Terminological decision trees (experimental)
- Knowledge graph embedding approaches: TransE (beta), DistMult (beta)
Noteworthy changes or updates since the previous release are:
- A data lake concept for querying heterogeneous data sources has been integrated into SANSA
- New clustering algorithms have been added and the interface for clustering has been unified
- Ontop RDB2RDF engine support has been added
- RDF data quality assessment methods have been substantially improved
- Dataset statistics calculation has been substantially improved
- Improved unit test coverage
Deployment and getting started:
- There are template projects for SBT and Maven for Apache Spark as well as for Apache Flink available to get started.
- The SANSA jar files are in Maven Central i.e. in most IDEs you can just search for “sansa” to include the dependencies in Maven projects.
- Example code is available for various tasks.
- We provide interactive notebooks for running and testing code via Docker.
We want to thank everyone who helped to create this release, in particular the projects HOBBIT, Big Data Ocean, SLIPO, QROWD, BETTER, BOOST, MLwin and Simple-ML.
Spread the word by retweeting our release announcement on Twitter. For more updates, please view our Twitter feed and consider following us.
Greetings from the SANSA Development Team
