An RDF triplestore stores and manages RDF triples (subject-predicate-object ) or, when the store contains multiple named graphs quads (graph-subject-predicate-object. Triple stores typically allow rapid indexed access by any combination of graph, subject, predicate or object values, and using SPARQL, the RDF query language. They may also offer free-text idnexing over text objects or map-reduce processing.
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