Ah, that's lovely. Thanks for the update, Kingsley! Uniprot is a good
parallel to keep in mind.
For Egon, Andra, others who work with them: Is there someone you'd
recommend chatting with at uniprot?
"scaling alongside uniprot" or at least engaging them on how to solve
shared + comparable issues (they also offer authentication-free SPARQL
querying) sounds like a compelling option.
S.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:32 PM Kingsley Idehen via Wikidata <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 8/18/21 5:07 PM, Mike Pham wrote:
Wikidata community members,
Thank you for all of your work helping Wikidata grow and improve over the
years. In the spirit of better communication, we would like to take this
opportunity to share some of the current challenges Wikidata Query Service
(WDQS) is facing, and some strategies we have for dealing with them.
WDQS currently risks failing to provide acceptable service quality due to
the following reasons:
1.
Blazegraph scaling
1.
Graph size. WDQS uses Blazegraph as our graph backend. While
Blazegraph can theoretically support 50 billion edges
<https://blazegraph.com/>, in reality Wikidata is the largest graph
we know of running on Blazegraph (~13 billion triples
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000489/wikidata-query-service?viewPanel=7&orgId=1&refresh=1m>),
and there is a risk that we will reach a size
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/LargeTripleStores#Bigdata.28R.29_.2812.7B.29>limit
of what it can realistically support
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213210>. Once Blazegraph is
maxed out, WDQS can no longer be updated. This will also break Wikidata
tools that rely on WDQS.
2.
Software support. Blazegraph is end of life software, which is no
longer actively maintained, making it an unsustainable backend to continue
moving forward with long term.
Blazegraph maxing out in size poses the greatest risk for catastrophic
failure, as it would effectively prevent WDQS from being updated further,
and inevitably fall out of date. Our long term strategy to address this is
to move to a new graph backend that best meets our WDQS needs and is
actively maintained, and begin the migration off of Blazegraph as soon as a
viable alternative is identified
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206560>.
Hi Mike,
Do bear in mind that pre and post selection of Blazegraph for Wikidata,
we've always offered an RDF-based DBMS that can handle current and future
requirements for Wikidata, just as we do DBpedia.
At the time of our first rendezvous, handling 50 billion triples would
have typically required our Cluster Edition which is a Commercial Only
offering -- basically, that was the deal breaker back then.
Anyway, in recent times, our Open Source Edition has evolved to handle
some 80 Billion+ triples (exemplified by the live Uniprot instance) where
performance and scale is primary a function of available memory.
I hope this helps.
Related:
[1]
https://wikidata.demo.openlinksw.com/sparql -- Our Live Wikidata
SPARQL Query Endpoint
[2]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15AXnxMgKyCvLPil_QeGC0DiXOP-Hu8Ln97f…
-- Google Spreadsheet about various Virtuoso Configurations associated with
some well-known public endpoints
[3]
https://t.co/EjAAO73wwE -- this query doesn't complete with the
current Blazegraph-based Wikidata endpoint
[4]
https://t.co/GTATPPJNBI -- same query completing when applied to the
Virtuoso-based endpoint
[5]
https://t.co/X7mLmcYC69 -- about loading Wikidata's datasets into a
Virtuoso instance
[6]
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Wikidata%20%23VirtuosoRDBMS%20%40kidehen&am…
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523Wikidata%20%2523VirtuosoRDBMS%20%2540kidehen&src=typed_query&f=live>
-- various demos shared via Twitter over the years regarding Wikidata
--
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