From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Triple
Store) Jump to: navigation, search  A triplestore is a purpose-
built database for the storage and retrieval of triples,[1] a
triple being a data entity composed of subject-predicate-object,
like "Bob is 35" or "Bob knows Fred".  Much like a relational
database, one stores information in a triplestore and retrieves
it via a query language. Unlike a relational database, a
triplestore is optimized for the storage and retrieval of
triples. In addition to queries, triples can usually be
imported/exported using Resource Description Framework (RDF) and
other formats.  Some triplestores can store billions of
triples.[2]   Some triplestores have been built as database
engines from scratch, while others have been built on top of
existing commercial relational database engines (i.e. SQL-
based).[3] Like the early development of online analytical
processing (OLAP) databases, this intermediate approach allowed
large and powerful database engines to be construc