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Shaping the Future of Knowledge Graphs

Orb DB is a fresh start in database design, combining the latest advances in AI and Data Systems to build world’s first responsible knowledge graph database.

Team

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Sonia Horchidan

Lead

PhD Candidate @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Ex-Googler

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Paris Carbone

Lead

Assistant Professor @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Open-Source Committer (original Apache Flink team)

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Fabian Zeiher

Research Engineer

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Weijun Huang

Research Engineer

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Xiangyu Shi

Research Engineer

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Yining Hou

Research Engineer

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Panagiotis Kaliosis

Research Engineer


Our Vision

ORB: Empowering Graph Queries through Inference

Executing queries on incomplete, sparse knowledge graphs yields incomplete results, especially when it comes to queries involving traversals. We question the applicability of all known architectures for incomplete knowledge bases and propose Orb DB: a clear departure from existing system designs, relying on Machine Learning-based operators to provide inferred query results.

Orb DB's Query Optimization

Query Optimization for Inference-Based Graph DBs

This work aims to develop a novel graph query optimizer that leverages the power of Graph Machine Learning to equip graph queries with prediction capabilities while offering approximate but timely results to complex queries. We discuss challenges, design decisions, and research avenues required in materializing this prototype.