Pieter Botha

As a Cyberinfrastructure project funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, LINCS is building its infrastructure on the resources of Compute Canada which operates a Cloud service run with OpenStack.

Cinder is the default volume storage provider for virtual machines provisioned on the OpenStack platform of Compute Canada. It is the last layer of a complex multi-tenant system that abstracts Ceph storage and hypervisors on top of hard disk drives. It is, however, the closest you can get to the network-attached storage (NAS) system of Compute Canada...

There are many graph databases out there that support Resource Description Framework (RDF): Virtuoso, GraphDB, Stardog, AnzoGraph, and RDFox, to name just a few popular ones. But if the requirements for your triplestore include open source, as it does for our CFI funded LINCS project, then Blazegraph and Apache’s Jena Fuseki are two of your most mature options...