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One Size Does not Fit All: When to Use Signature-based Pruning to Improve Template Matching for RDF graphs

Databases 2015-01-29 v1

Abstract

Signature-based pruning is broadly accepted as an effective way to improve query performance of graph template matching on general labeled graphs. Most existing techniques which utilize signature-based pruning claim its benefits on all datasets and queries. However, the effectiveness of signature-based pruning varies greatly among different RDF datasets and highly related with their dataset characteristics. We observe that the performance benefits from signature-based pruning depend not only on the size of the RDF graphs, but also the underlying graph structure and the complexity of queries. This motivates us to propose a flexible RDF querying framework, called RDF-h, which selectively utilizes signature-based pruning by evaluating the characteristics of RDF datasets and query templates. Scalability and efficiency of RDF-h is demonstrated in experimental results using both real and synthetic datasets. Keywords: RDF, Graph Template Matching, Signature-based Pruning

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@article{arxiv.1501.07184,
  title  = {One Size Does not Fit All: When to Use Signature-based Pruning to Improve Template Matching for RDF graphs},
  author = {Shi Qiao and Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07184},
  year   = {2015}
}