Sometimes column stores are really the way to go. For massive RDF storage, they offer orders of magnitude improvement in query speeds when compared to the best

Sometimes column stores are really the way to go. For massive RDF storage, they offer orders of magnitude improvement in query speeds when compared to the best row-store DBs. The C-Store project at MIT is cool. Here's a good summary: http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/12/column-oriented-rdf-storage.html http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/12/column-oriented-rdf...