Distributed RDF Archives Querying with Spark

The prevalence of open data and the expansion of published information on the web have engendered a large scale of available RDF data. When dealing with the evolution of the published datasets, users may need to access to not only the actual version of a dataset but equally the previous ones and would like to track the evolution of data over time. To this direction, single-machine RDF archiving systems and Benchmarks have been proposed but do not scale well to query large RDF archives. Distributed data management systems present a promising direction for providing scalability and parallel processing of large volume of RDF data. In this paper, we study and compare commonly used RDF archiving techniques and querying strategies with the distributed computing platform Spark. We propose a formal mapping of versioning queries defined with SPARQL into SQL SPARK. We make a series of experimentation of these queries to study the effects of RDF archives partitioning and distribution.