epsilon is based on the associative memory organization that provides fast retrieval of facts and the associations among facts. It is used for storing, querying and managing RDF knowledge graphs.
The associative memory organization uses symbols for the representation of the facts. The symbols are linked by statements, implemented as triples that bind two symbols together by the use of a predicate. The associations among the statements are formed by means of a ring (an equivalence class) that links triples having the same property.
From the perspective of a graph data model, a symbol is represented by a node and a triple is represented by a named edge of a graph. Each edge (s,p,o) is connected into seven rings that correspond to all possible subsets of {s,p,o}, i.e., to all possible keys of a triple (s,p,o).
epsilon command line interface implements an interactive environment for storing, browsing and querying knowledge graphs.
epsilon currently provides a simple means for querying triples. The triple-patterns can be conveniently implemented by means of the rings. User can explore rings by using keys as the entry points to the rings. General SparQL queries can be currently implemented only as Perl functions.
To be able to explore the conceptual levels of a knowledge graph we developed a simple programming environment based on variables that represent sets of nodes. The operations are provided for transforming the sets to other sets. The transitive closure of a set of graph nodes is based on the selected predicate. The levelwise computation of a transitive closure can extract selected levels of the closure. Further, the sets can be mapped by using a path of predicates and regular path expressions.
epsilon includes a set of commands for the computation of the statistics of knowledge graphs. The statistics is computed for the schema triples that form a conceptual schema of a knowledge graph. The schema triples of a knowledge graph are partially ordered. We can choose to compute either coarse statistics or more fine grained statistics by selecting the appropriate size of a schema graph.
The datasets used for the empirical study of the algorithm for the computation of the statistics of knowledge graphs is presented here.
Epsilon graph database system is implemented in Perl programming language by using BerkeleyDB as a key-value store. Epsilon modules can be downloaded from here. The documentation of modules is provided in POD format.
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