Details
Lineage
- Kowari, 2003: no longer developed.
- Mulgara, 2006: fork of Kowari; no longer developed.
Kowari
An RDF triple store written in Java with its own iTQL query language and Lucene full-text indexing, open-sourced by Tucana Technologies from the storage layer of its commercial knowledge server. Development stopped after Northrop Grumman acquired Tucana's assets in 2005; continued as the Mulgara fork.
Elsewhere
- First released
- October 2003
- License
- MPL-1.1
- Built with
- Java
Sources 4 references
License MPL-1.1
Stated by Northrop Grumman in 2006 after it had acquired the copyright from Tucana.
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licensed freely to all under the Mozilla Public License, version 1.1
Northrop Grumman Backs Down on Kowari · reviewed 2026-09-23 -
Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)
Kowari - SourceForge · reviewed 2026-09-23
Language Java
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Kowari is an open-sourced (Mozilla Public License) triplestore optimized for RDF storage, created by Tucana Technologies, and written entirely in Java 1.4.2.
A First Look at the Kowari Triplestore · reviewed 2026-09-23
Released 2003-10
Developer beta announced on the W3C RDF interest list on 25 October 2003.
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I'm pleased to announce the availability of an early release of Kowari for RDF developers.
Kowari Developer Beta Release · reviewed 2026-09-23