D2R Server – Publishing Relational Databases on the Semantic Web. D2R Server is a tool for publishing relational databases on the Semantic Web. It enables RDF and HTML browsers to navigate the content of the database, and allows querying the database using the SPARQL query language. It is part of the D2RQ Platform. 1. Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers. How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day?
I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they built a service relied upon by companies like bit.ly, Hunch and The New York Times. BackType captures online conversations, everything from tweets to blog comments to checkins and Facebook interactions. Its business is aimed at helping marketers and others understand those conversations by measuring them in a lot of ways, which means processing a massive amount of data.