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Glossary

This page describes some commonly used terms in Stardog and this documentation.


Term Definition
Stardog Database Management System, aka Stardog Server An instance of Stardog; only one Stardog Server may run per JVM. A computer may run multiple Stardog Servers by running one per multiple JVMs.
Stardog Home, Home, STARDOG_HOME A directory in a filesystem in which Stardog stores files and other information; established either in a Stardog configuration file or by environment variable. Only one Stardog Server may run simultaneously from a STARDOG_HOME.
Stardog Network Home A URL that identifies a Stardog Server running on the network.
Database A Stardog database is a graph of RDF data under management of a Stardog Server. It may contain zero or more RDF Named Graphs. A Stardog Server may manage more than one Database; there is no hard limit, and the practical limit is disk space.
Database Short Name, aka Database Name An identifier used to name a database, provided as input when a database is created.
Database Network Name A Database Short Name is part of the URI of a Database addressed over some network protocol.
Index The unit of persistence for a Database. We sometimes (sloppily) use Database and Index interchangeably in the manual.
Connection String An identifier (a restricted subset of legal URLs, actually) that is used to connect to a Stardog database to send queries or perform other operations.
Default Graph The Default Graph in a Database is the context into which RDF triples are stored when a Named Graph is not explicitly specified. A SPARQL query executed by Stardog that does not contain any Named Graph statements is executed against the data in the Default Graph only.
Security Realm A Security Realm defines the users and their permissions for each Database in an Stardog Server. There is only one Security Realm per Stardog Server.