[Developers] Loading Freebase into a Star Schema

[Kirrily Robert]

Agreed -- fantastic blog post, Paul!  Very interesting to hear your  
experiences.

Did you see that Freebase is now available on AWS?  Do you think you'd  
do the same over again, given that?

K.

On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> Great work Paul,
>
> This is one of those things that I always figured should be possible  
> but
> I had no idea it would take so much time and effort to load the  
> data. It
> certainly gives me a new appreciation for all the work that the  
> Metaweb
> folks do to return my long, complicated MQL queries at reasonable
> speeds. Thanks for working through the hard parts for us and  
> documenting
> your process so clearly.
>
> Shawn
>
> Paul Houle wrote:
>>    I recently,  with some effort,  managed to load the Freebase  
>> January
>> 2009 database into a Star Schema.  Loading the 241 M facts took  
>> about a
>> week with a seriously untuned system.  Here's an article about the  
>> results:
>>
>> http://gen5.info/q/2009/02/25/putting-freebase-in-a-star-schema/
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Kirrily Robert
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