News from Oracle

Oracle 11g Gains Native OWL Support and Oracle 11g to support some OWL inferencing. Following the links to it leads to, "Semantic Technologies Center" and an announcement about TopQuadrant TopBraid Composer supporting Oracle. Apart from the native OWL inferencing, faster querying and faster bulk loading the PDF referenced talks about the various scalability achieved (600 million triples), clustering, failover, concurrent read/write and query features such as a semantic relationship operators: sem_related and sem_distance.