SDB Database Layouts

SDB does not have a single database layout. This page is an informal overview of the two main types ("layout2/hash" and "layout2/index").

In SDB one store is one RDF dataset is one SQL database.

Databases of type layout2 have a triples table for the default graph, a quads table for the named graphs. In the triples and quads tables, the columns are integers referencing a nodes table.

In the hash form, the integers are 8-byte hashes of the node.

In the index form, the integers are 4-byte sequence ids into the node table.

Triples

+-----------+
| S | P | O |
+-----------+

Primary key: SPO
Indexes: PO, OS

Quads

+---------------+
| G | S | P | O |
+---------------+

Primary key: GSPO
Indexes: GPO, GOS, SPO, OS, PO.

Nodes

In the index-based layout, the table is:

+------------------------------------------------+
| Id | Hash | lex | lang | datatype | value type |
+------------------------------------------------+

Primary key: Id
Index: Hash

Hash:

+-------------------------------------------+
| Hash | lex | lang | datatype | value type |
+-------------------------------------------+

Primary key: Hash

All character fields are unicode, supporting any character set, including mixed language use.