What is it?
A pre-installed edition of Virtuoso for Amazon's EC2 Cloud platform.
What does it offer?
From a Web Entrepreneur perspective it offers:- Low cost entry point to a game-changing Web 3.0+ (and beyond) platform that combines SQL, RDF, XML, and Web Services functionality
- Flexible variable cost model (courtesy of EC2 DevPay) tightly bound to revenue generated by your services
- Delivers federated and/or centralized model flexibility for you SaaS based solutions
- Simple entry point for developing and deploying sophisticated database driven applications (SQL or RDF Linked Data Web oriented)
- Complete framework for exploiting OpenID, OAuth (including Role enhancements) that simplifies exploitation of these vital Identity and Data Access technologies
- Easily implement RDF Linked Data based Mail, Blogging, Wikis, Bookmarks, Calendaring, Discussion Forums, Tagging, Social-Networking as Data Space (data containers) features of your application or service offering
- Instant alleviation of challenges (e.g. service costs and agility) associated with Data Portability and Open Data Access across Web 2.0 data silos
- LDAP integration for Intranet / Extranet style applications.
From the DBMS engine perspective it provides you with one or more pre-configured instances of Virtuoso that enable immediate exploitation of the following services:
- RDF Database (a Quad Store with SPARQL & SPARUL Language & Protocol support)
- SQL Database (with ODBC, JDBC, OLE-DB, ADO.NET, and XMLA driver access)
- XML Database (XML Schema, XQuery/Xpath, XSLT, Full Text Indexing)
- Full Text Indexing.
From a Middleware perspective it provides:
- RDF Views (Wrappers / Semantic Covers) over SQL, XML, and other data sources accessible via SOAP or REST style Web Services
- Sponger Service for converting non RDF information resources into RDF Linked Data "on the fly" via a large collection of pre-installed RDFizer Cartridges.
From the Web Server Platform perspective it provides an alternative to LAMP stack components such as MySQL and Apace by offering
- HTTP Web Server
- WebDAV Server
- Web Application Server (includes PHP runtime hosting)
- SOAP or REST style Web Services Deployment
- RDF Linked Data Deployment
- SPARQL (SPARQL Query Language) and SPARUL (SPARQL Update Language) endpoints
- Virtuoso Hosted PHP packages for MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, and phpBB3 (just install the relevant Virtuoso Distro. Package).
From the general System Administrator's perspective it provides:
- Online Backups (Backup Set dispatched to S3 buckets, FTP, or HTTP/WebDAV server locations)
- Synchronized Incremental Backups to Backup Set locations
- Backup Restore from Backup Set location (without exiting to EC2 shell).
Higher level user oriented offerings include:
- OpenLink Data Explorer front-end for exploring the burgeoning Linked Data Web
- Ajax based SPARQL Query Builder (iSPARQL) that enables SPARQL Query construction by Example
- Ajax based SQL Query Builder (QBE) that enables SQL Query construction by Example.
For Web 2.0 / 3.0 users, developers, and entrepreneurs it offers it includes Distributed Collaboration Tools & Social Media realm functionality courtesy of ODS that includes:
- Point of presence on the Linked Data Web that meshes your Identity and your Data via URIs
- System generated Social Network Profile & Contact Data via FOAF?
- System generated SIOC (Semantically Interconnected Online Community) Data Space (that includes a Social Graph) exposing all your Web data in RDF Linked Data form
- System generated OpenID and automatic integration with FOAF
- Transparent Data Integration across Facebook, Digg, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Twitter, and any other Web 2.0 data space equipped with RSS / Atom support and/or REST style Web Services
- In-built support for SyncML which enables data synchronization with Mobile Phones.
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