Concurrent collaborative processes for data management and retrieval

摘要

In one embodiment the present invention includes a plurality of processes for storing data. The processes may include identifiers for specifying other processes representing other resources. In one embodiment, the processes store link types for specifying a relationship type between the resource represented by the process and other resources represented by other processes. Processes may represent data elements and the links may represent relationships between the data. Queries may be conducted across the data in parallel by sending messages to the processes. In one embodiment, the processes represent RDF subjects and RDF objects, and the links represent RDF predicates. Queries for RDF data satisfying predefined criteria or relationships can be performed in parallel by executing processes at the same time on different threads on one or more CPUs.