 Open source RDF framework in Java.  Supports RDF Schema inferencing and querying.  Supports SPARQL 1.1 query, update, federated query

 Sesame Console  Workbench  Repository API

 Commands end with ‘.’  To get overview of the available commands type: help.  To get help for a specific command, type ‘help command.’

 Memory – memory based RDF repository  Native – on-disk data structure repository  Pgsql – repository that stores data in PostgreSQL DB  Mysql – repository that stores data in MySQL DB  Remote – repository that serves as a proxy for a repository on Sesame Server

 Stores data in main memory.  Persist – whether to use data file for persistence over sessions.  Sync delay – Milliseconds that store will wait until it synchronizes changes to disk.

 Stores data on disk.  B-Tree index on statements. Subject Predicate Object Context  Default indexes: SPOC, POSC

 Uses JDBC driver  Max number of triple tables 1 Monolithic schema with single table 0 No limit

 Serves as proxy for store on remote Sesame server.  Sesame server location – URL of Sesame server.  Remote repository ID – ID of repository that HTTP repository should communicate with.

 Include Sesame library in project classpath.