OpenLink Releases Incremental Update to Multi-Model RDBMS & Data Virtualization Combo

Virtuoso 7.2.2 Provides Enhancements To Modern Data Access, Integration, and Management

BURLINGTON, MA. -- February 22, 2016 -- OpenLink Software, Inc., today unveiled the latest edition of Virtuoso, its modern multi-model relational data management and conceptual data virtualization platform, that provides a secure, cross-platform, high-performance, massively-scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing, integrating, and sharing insightful analytics over disparate data sources. This latest product release delivers key innovations aimed at data diversity, with particular impact on Data Analytics, Data Lakes, Data Virtualization, and Data Flow.

Flexible Solutions to Data Access & Integration Challenges

Data variety, volume, and velocity are perennial impediments to enterprise- and social-media-oriented data integration projects aimed at increasing the agility of organizations and individuals alike.

By focusing on common structured data formats (e.g., CSV, HTML) and existing data access protocols (HTTP, SPARQL, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, WebDAV, LDP, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, and a number of platform-specific Social Media APIs), this release of Virtuoso significantly reduces the direct and indirect costs of creating conceptual layering over disparate data, thereby unleashing unrivaled levels of enterprise and individual agility.

Real-world challenges driving changes in this update included:

• Data Flow Problems -- such as enabling flow of data across documents and folders hosted in IMAP4, WebDAV, LDP, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and others
• Storage Choice Problems -- solved by virtualizing storage across Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, LDP, etc.
• Spam Handling -- addressed with intelligent email filtration and organization
• Fluid integration of all of the above into the underlying Virtuoso RDBMS, while keeping all data accessible via open data access standards (HTTP, SPARQL, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, etc.)

Features Summary

Highlights of Release 7.2.2 include:

• Enables exposure of filesystem-hosted CSV documents as Native Relational Data Sources, making them accessible via SPARQL and SQL
• Automatically generates 5-Star Linked Data and Ontologies from CSV documents, via built-in Data Transformation Middleware
• Automatically generates platform-agnostic conceptual views, atop Data Lakes comprised of data from disparate data sources
• Advanced nanotation processor enables unrestricted creation and flow of structured data, via extraction of JSON-LD and RDF-Turtle embedded in any plain-text snippet, document, or HTML page
• Faster R2RML processor generates semantically-rich conceptual web-like views over disparate ODBC and/or JDBC data sources
• Additional Geo-Spatial Query functionality
• New Data Transformation Cartridges (Drivers) transparently integrate Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Entity Extraction Services provided by Google Knowledge Graph and Babel into generation and publication of Linked Data
• New & Improved Providers for Jena and Sesame Frameworks

A Pedigree of Innovation in Data Access, Integration, and Management Technology

"Virtuoso 7.2.2 continues to demonstrate OpenLink's profound mastery of data access, integration, and management technology in regards to individual and enterprise agility pursuits," said Kingsley Idehen, Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software. "As technology innovation leaders in these realms, our functionality enhancements are delivered with special attention to individual privacy and enterprise security -- with minimal, if any, disruption to legacy infrastructure," he added.

Additional information about the Open Source and Commercial Editions of this release, may be found here: <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VOSNews>

Availability

The shrink-wrapped commercial edition of Virtuoso 7.2.2 is available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, with 32-bit and 64-bit client support throughout; all Virtuoso 7.x server executables are 64-bit only. Other Unix platforms are available on request.

The Open Source edition is available from Github.

Live Showcases

• Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud Cache -- Semantically interlinked Big Data
• DBpedia-Live -- constantly updated from the Wikipedia "firehose" changelog
• DBpedia -- updated periodically by bulk import from Wikipedia

Special Offers

A number of special and upgradeable licensing deals are available for Virtuoso 7.2.2.

• The Personal license brings most enterprise-grade features to the desktop, fitting an individual's budget and without requiring enterprise-grade administration or training.
• Several Developer licenses enable cost-effective learning and experimentation, from $0 to $999, depending on the features you choose to explore.
• Extra-special limited time server-class license specials, bring the full power and benefit of the new Release to any enterprise, at unimagined price levels.

Learn More About ...

• Independent report on 500 billion record benchmark
• Virtuoso Column-Store
• Virtuoso Column-Store Webinar
• Virtuoso in general
• Special offers and retail pricing
• Obtaining and evaluating Virtuoso 7.2

About OpenLink Software

OpenLink Software is a privately-held software company with offices in the USA and the United Kingdom. It has been the leading provider and technology innovator in the universal data access middleware market since 1993, and over 10,000 companies currently use its products worldwide. Follow @OpenLink on Twitter, http://twitter.com/openlink, or visit our website for more information, http://www.openlinksw.com/.

Contact

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OpenLink Software, Inc.
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