Chapter Four
RDF Dictionaries: String Encoding
Abstract
This chapter presents the notion of a dictionary which is a first compression steps for the storage of RDF triples. The structures associated to these dictionaries can themselves be compressed. We start by presenting the main compression methods and then present them in the context of RDF stores, highlight some smart encoding solutions, support for full text search and conclude with approaches tailored to the processing of very large dictionaries.
Keywords
String encoding
Huffman encoding
Front coding
Self-indexing
Smart encoding
Full text search
Compression of large dictionaries
As we already discussed, RDF data may be very verbose due to the use of string identifiers that are taking ...
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