KROWN 👑: A Benchmark for RDF Graph Materialization

KROWN 👑 is a benchmark for materialization systems to construct Knowledge Graphs from (semi-)heterogeneous data sources using declarative mappings such as RML.

Many benchmarks already exist for virtualization systems e.g. GTFS-Madrid-Bench, NPD, BSBM which focus on complex queries with a single declarative mapping. However, materialization systems are unaffected by complex queries since their input is the dataset and the mappings to generate a Knowledge Graph. Some specialized datasets exist to benchmark specific limitations of materialization systems such as duplicated or empty values in datasets e.g. GENOMICS, but they do not cover all aspects of materialization systems. Therefore, it is hard to compare materialization systems among each other in general which is where KROWN 👑 comes in!

Data generator

KROWN 👑 provides a data generator to scale the different benchmark scenarios with multiple scaling parameters, configurable through a set of JSON configuration files. This way, any combination can be used of scaling parameters and their values are stored to easily reproduce the generation in the future.

KROWN 👑's data generator is available inside the data-generator folder consisting of scenarios under data-generator/config and unittests to verify the output of the generator (data-generator/tests]. More information can be found in the README.

Installation

KROWN 👑's data generator requires Numpy and Pandas which are listed in the requirements.txt file of the data-generator directory:

cd data-generator
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

• pandas: data manipulation functions for generating synthetic data
• numpy: needed by Pandas

Example usage

cd data-generator
./exgentool generate --scenario=/path/to/config.json

Samples

We provide samples of the generated scenarios by KROWN's data generator which use a small data size to visualise the impact of changing the parameter in each scenario, you can find them in the samples folder.

Execution framework

KROWN 👑 provides also an execution framework to reproducible execute benchmark scenarios as a pipeline of Docker containers while measuring metrics e.g. execution time, CPU time, memory consumption, storage usage, etc.

KROWN 👑's execution framework is available inside the execution-framework folder and unittests to verify the execution of Docker-based pipelines and collection of metrics by KROWN's execution framework (execution-framework/tests]. More information can be found in the README.

Installation

KROWN 👑's execution framework requires several dependencies which are listed in the requirements.txt file of the execution-framework directory:

cd execution-framework
sudo apt install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libpq-dev libjpeg-dev python3-pip docker.io
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

• psycopg2-binary: PostgreSQL database access
• pymysql: MySQL database access
• jsonschema: validation of pipeline description in metadata.json
• psutil: measurement of CPU and RAM usage
• requests: checking if a resource is online or posting a SPARQL query to a triplestore
• rdflib: performing operations on RDF files
• timeout-decorator: enforcing the timeout on each resource

Example usage

cd execution-framework
./exectool --runs=5 --root=/path/to/scenarios run

The execution framework of KROWN 👑 has been used in the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop Challenges at ESWC 2023 and 2024. It was also used in benchmarking incremental mappings with IncRML (under review).

Sustainability plan and limitations

A full list of Issues can be found here. Their status is followed up in a GitHub Project by the Knowledge Graph Construction community.

KROWN's data generator and execution framework was created to support newer editions of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop Challenge because each edition the community has to add more generators to expand each edition with new challenges. Currently, the community is adding the test cases of the new RML modules to the data generator of the Challenge. After this edition (2024) ends, the generator for the test cases will be added to KROWN's data generator. The community will keep developing KROWN's data generator and execution framework to ease the introduction of new scenarios for newer editions of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop Challenge.

See the READMEs of data-generator and execution-framework for more details.

Results

The results of our experiments are available on Zenodo. Below, the figures we created from these results are shown and we explain in detail how these experiments can be reproduced.

Figures

In our paper, we used 2 figures which we include here as well with their corresponding description. First figure shows the results of scaling the number of named graphs via Graph Maps. Second figure how the systems are affected by the different join scenarios.

Results for the Graph Maps subscenarios: scaling the number of POMs with 1 Named Graph (NG) (top) and scaling the number of NGs from 5 to 15 Statically (S) and Dynamically (D) in a Subject Map (bottom). RMLMapper always times out, RMLStreamer does not support multiple GMs. SDM-RDFizer fails the multiple GMs with an error. All systems fail or time out the 15NG dynamic case.

Results for join scenarios: number of join duplicates (left), number of join conditions (middle), and join relations N-M (right). RMLStreamer-CSV is excluded from number of join conditions because it does not support multiple join conditions. RMLMapper times out (TO) for 5,10, 15 join conditions.

Reproducing results of ISWC 2024 Resource Track

In this section we discuss our evaluation setup, the materialization systems we evaluated, and the list of scenarios we generated and used to analyze the materialization systems using KROWN. In the Instructions subsection, we explain each step needed to reproduce the experiments.

Evaluation setup

We generated several scenarios using KROWN's data generator and executed them 5 times with KROWN's execution framework. All experiments were performed on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machines (Linux 5.15.0, x86_64) with each Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz, 48 GB RAM memory, and 2 GB swap memory. The output of each materialization system was set to N-Triples.

Materialization systems

We selected the most popular maintained materialization systems for constructing RDF graphs for performing our experiments with KROWN:

• RMLMapper
• RMLStreamer
• Morph-KGC
• SDM-RDFizer
• OntopM (Ontop in materialization mode)

Note: KROWN is flexible and allows adding any other materialization system, see KROWN’s execution framework documentation for more information.

Scenarios

We consider the following scenarios:

• Raw data: number of rows, columns and cell size
• Duplicates & empty values: percentage of the data containing duplicates or empty values
• Mappings: Triples Maps (TM), Predicate Object Maps (POM), Named Graph Maps (NG).
• Joins: relations (1-N, N-1, N-M), conditions, and duplicates during joins

Note: KROWN is flexible and allows adding any other scenario, see KROWN's data generator documentation for more information.

In the table below we list all parameter values we used to configure our scenarios:

Instructions

These instructions assume you are running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Other Linux distributions can be used as well, but some commands may differ such as the ones for installing packages.

1. Clone this repository using git

git clone https://github.com/kg-construct/KROWN`

4. Enter the data-generator directory

cd data-generator

6. Install dependencies

pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt`

7. Generate the scenarios using the exgentool, the configurations are available in the config folder

In this example, we only generate the Mappings scenario for RMLStreamer (benchmark-mappings-rmlstreamer.json). If you want to generate them all, you need to repeat this command with a different scenario configuration file for each scenario, seeconfig` folder.

./exgentool --scenario=config/benchmark-mappings-rmlstreamer.json generate
Generating scenario's instances:
    ✅ 1TM + 5POM
    ✅ 10TM + 5POM
    ✅ 20TM + 5POM
    ✅ 30TM + 5POM
    ✅ 20TM + 1POM
    ✅ 20TM + 3POM
    ✅ 20TM + 10POM

The generated scenarios are stored in RMLStreamer folder:

RMLStreamer/
└── csv
    ├── mappings_10_5
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    ├── mappings_1_5
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    ├── mappings_20_1
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    ├── mappings_20_10
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    ├── mappings_20_3
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    ├── mappings_20_5
    │   ├── data
    │   │   └── shared
    │   │       ├── data.csv
    │   │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
    │   └── metadata.json
    └── mappings_30_5
        ├── data
        │   └── shared
        │       ├── data.csv
        │       └── mapping.rml.ttl
        └── metadata.json

If you use other engines, the name of the folder will change. For example: MorphKGC as engine will have a folder MorphKGC with the same structure as above. The scenarios are now ready to be executed by the execution framework!

8. Enter the execution-framework

cd ..
cd execution-framework

9. Install dependencies

sudo apt install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libpq-dev libjpeg-dev python3-pip docker.io
pip install --user -r requirements.txt

10. Allow access to Docker without being root

# Add user to docker group
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Do not forget to logout so the user groups are properly updated!

11. Execute the scenarios with the exectool

./exectool --root=../data-generator/RMLStreamer --runs=5 run

The --runs argument specifies that we want to repeat the experiment 5 times. The execution framework will now perform the experiment by running the pipelines defined in the metadata.json files of each scenario (see data generator output).

12. Generate the statistics Execution framework allows you to immediately calculate the necessary statistics on the measurements such as average, median, min/max. You can perform this by using the stats command instead of run:

./exectool --root=../data-generator/RMLStreamer --runs=5 stats

This will generate a summary.csv, aggregated.csv, and stats.csv file.

• stats.csv: the raw data measurements for each run.
• aggregated.csv: aggregates the stats among all runs, only the measurements for each step.
• summary.csv: aggregated stats among all runs by step. Only consumed resources and the execution time are provided for each step, not the intermediate measurements, those are in aggregated.csv.

You are mostly interested in summary.csv as these values can be immediately used to make graphs and report findings. However, all intermediate measurements are also available for provenance reasons.

Citation

@software{Van_Assche_KROWN_A_Benchmark_2024,
  author = {Van Assche, Dylan and Chaves-Fraga, David and Dimou, Anastasia},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10979322},
  license = {MIT},
  month = apr,
  title = {{KROWN: A Benchmark for RDF Graph Materialization}},
  url = {https://w3id.org/kg-construct/KROWN},
  version = {1.0.0},
  year = {2024}
}

License

Licensed under the MIT license.