Introduction

CM-Well is a writable Linked Data repository, developed by Thomson Reuters and used as its central Knowledge Graph database. CM-Well (Content Matrix Well) adheres to RDF principles, meaning that data is in a standard, machine-readable format.

CM-Well is not a triple store! Our focus is on high scale, immutability of changes and downstream distribution of content. In BI terminology, CM-Well is a data warehouse, you might use a triple store downstream as a data mart.

You can read more about the key differentiating features of CM-Well in our paper accepted to 2017 International Semantic Web Conference.

The Thomson Reuters Knowledge Graph contains information about organizations, instruments and people in the world of finance, but you can use CM-Well for any kind of linked data. Thomson Reuters is now offering CM-Well as an Open Source platform for the developer community to use and enrich.

Key Features and Technology

CM-Well is based on a clustered architecture, with durable storage into Apache Cassandra and indexing via Elastic Search. Key features include:

Horizontal scaling to support billions of triples
Cross site replication
REST based APIs
All writes treated as immutable, storing previous versions
Named graph (quad) support
Fast (~10ms by subject, ~50ms for search) retrieval by subject and predicate query
Support for SPARQL on sub-graph and a beta of full graph SPARQL
Subscription by query for downstream consumers

Other key technologies used under the covers include:

Angular and React for the UIs
Akka for cluster management
Jena for Sparql and RDF conversions
Netty for network comms
Zookeeper for cluster configuration

Linked Data Repositories

You may be interested in exploring the following open-access linked data repositories and products:

Here are more dataset reference lists:

Getting Started

Basic Write and Read Operations

You can get started with CM-Well by running some basic write and read operations.

Note: The Curl commands in the examples below assume that CM-Well is running on your local machine.

Write Infotons and Fields

Action: Create 5 new infotons (an infoton is the basic unit of storage for RDF in CM-Well) under the path example/Individuals: MamaBear, PapaBear, BabyBear1, BabyBear2 and BabyBear3. Each bear has a hasName field with a name value.

Curl command:

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8080/_in?format=ntriples" --data-binary @input.txt

File contents:

<http://example/Individuals/MamaBear> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/spouseOf> <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> .
<http://example/Individuals/MamaBear> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Betty".
<http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Barney".
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear1> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear1> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear1> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Barbara".
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear1> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/siblingOf> <http://example/Individuals/BabyBear2>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear1> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/siblingOf> <http://example/Individuals/BabyBear3>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear2> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear2> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear2> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Bobby".
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear3> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear3> <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/childOf> <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear>.
<http://example/Individuals/BabyBear3> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Bert".

Response:

{"success":true}

Read Infotons

Action: Read the infotons you created in the previous step under example/individuals, with associated predicates.

Curl command:

curl "http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals?op=search&format=ttl&recursive&with-data"

Response:

Note: the sys namespace and predicates in the response which are metadata from CM-Well, not the data you stored.

@prefix nn:    <http://localhost:8080/meta/nn#> .
@prefix foaf:  <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix rel:   <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/> .
@prefix sys:   <http://localhost:8080/meta/sys#> .

<http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/MamaBear>
sys:dataCenter"lh" ;
sys:indexTime "1470058071114"^^xsd:long ;
sys:lastModified  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.241Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
sys:parent"/example/Individuals" ;
sys:path  "/example/Individuals/MamaBear" ;
sys:type  "ObjectInfoton" ;
sys:uuid  "e6f36b01bec464f9e2a8d8b690590e31" ;
foaf:givenName   "Betty" ;
rel:spouseOf  <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> .

<http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear2>
sys:dataCenter    "lh" ;
sys:indexTime     "1470058071125"^^xsd:long ;
sys:lastModified  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.241Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
sys:parent        "/example/Individuals" ;
sys:path          "/example/Individuals/BabyBear2" ;
sys:type          "ObjectInfoton" ;
sys:uuid          "284a5a2438db15b5f8d9ef87795c0945" ;
foaf:givenName   "Bobby" ;
rel:childOf       <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> , <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear> .

<http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear3>
sys:dataCenter    "lh" ;
sys:indexTime     "1470058071112"^^xsd:long ;
sys:lastModified  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.239Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
sys:parent        "/example/Individuals" ;
sys:path          "/example/Individuals/BabyBear3" ;
sys:type          "ObjectInfoton" ;
sys:uuid          "671d93482c72b51cef5afa18c71692a5" ;
foaf:givenName   "Bert" ;
rel:childOf       <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> , <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear> .

[ sys:pagination  [ sys:first  <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals?format=ttl?&recursive=&op=search&from=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.239Z&to=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.242Z&length=5&offset=0> ;
            sys:last   <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals?format=ttl?&recursive=&op=search&from=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.239Z&to=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.242Z&length=5&offset=5> ;
            sys:self   <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals?format=ttl?&recursive=&op=search&from=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.239Z&to=2016-08-01T13%3A27%3A49.242Z&length=5&offset=0> ;
            sys:type   "PaginationInfo"
          ] ;

sys:results [ sys:fromDate  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.239Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
            sys:infotons  <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/MamaBear> , <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear1> , <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/PapaBear> , <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear3> , <http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear2> ;
            sys:length    "5"^^xsd:long ;
            sys:offset    "0"^^xsd:long ;
            sys:toDate    "2016-08-01T13:27:49.242Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
            sys:total     "5"^^xsd:long ;
            sys:type      "SearchResults"
          ] ;
  sys:type"SearchResponse"
] .

<http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/BabyBear1>
sys:dataCenter    "lh" ;
sys:indexTime     "1470058071125"^^xsd:long ;
sys:lastModified  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.242Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
sys:parent        "/example/Individuals" ;
sys:path          "/example/Individuals/BabyBear1" ;
sys:type          "ObjectInfoton" ;
sys:uuid          "1627fe787d44b5a4fff19f50181b585b" ;
foaf:givenName   "Barbara" ;
rel:childOf       <http://example/Individuals/MamaBear> , <http://example/Individuals/PapaBear> ;
rel:siblingOf     <http://example/Individuals/BabyBear2> , <http://example/Individuals/BabyBear3> .

<http://localhost:8080/example/Individuals/PapaBear>
sys:dataCenter    "lh" ;
sys:indexTime     "1470058071120"^^xsd:long ;
sys:lastModified  "2016-08-01T13:27:49.241Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
sys:parent        "/example/Individuals" ;
sys:path          "/example/Individuals/PapaBear" ;
sys:type          "ObjectInfoton" ;
sys:uuid          "6513a8d6395af8db932f49afb97cbfd1" ;
foaf:givenName   "Barney" .

CM-Well Tutorial

See CM-Well Tutorials to learn how perform more CM-Well operations.

Developer Resources

See the following resources to learn more about CM-Well workflows, APIs and architecture:

System Requirements

Build Requirements

Before building CM-Well, you will need to install the following software packages:

Java 8
Scala 2.11.11
SBT(Scala Build Tool) version 0.13 or later

Note Currently, CM-Well only runs on Mac and Linux environments

Run Requirements

Java 8
Scala 2.11.11
8 GB RAM

Downloading and Building CM-Well

To build CM-Well from its code:

Clone the CM-Well source branch from CM-Well GitHub Code Page to a local directory on your machine.
On your machine, navigate to the server directory.
To compile CM-Well, run the following Scala command: sbt packageCmwell or preferably (for a complete rebuild and testing): sbt ccft

Note You may need to give sbt more heap to compile. A 2GB heap works, which you can set by saying

export SBT_OPTS="-Xmx2G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -Xss2M"

More detailed instructions can be found in the Building CM-Well Tutorial .

Code Repository Structure

The following tables describe CM-Well’s code directory structure:

Top-level directories:

Directory	Description
cm-well	Root directory
server	Main CM-Well server directory

Server directories:

Directory	Description
cmwell-batch	Old background indexing and persisting process
cmwell-bg	New background indexing and persisting process
cmwell-common	Common utility classes for several projects
cmwell-cons	CM-Well install/upgrade/maintenance console
cmwell-controller	A wrapper around Akka Cluster library to orchestrate all components
cmwell-dao	Cassandra driver
cmwell-data-tools	Auxiliary wrappers around CM-Well APIs, to be used as library by CM-Well client developers
cmwell-data-tools-app	cmwell-data-tools as a stand-alone app (can be used in Linux shell)
cmwell-dc	Distributed Container. In charge of: health control, data center synchronization, etc.
cmwell-docs	CM-Well documentation
cmwell-domain	CM-Well basic entities (e.g. Infoton)
cmwell-formats	Output formatters for CM-Well data (e.g. to nquads or trig)
cmwell-fts	Full-text-search wrapper around ElasticSearch
cmwell-grid	ActorSystem wrapper library used to manage actors across a CM-Well cluster
cmwell-imp	Infoton merge process used by the background process for incremental updated support
cmwell-indexer	Indexes data in ElasticSearch using FTS (and used by the background process)
cmwell-irw	Infoton read from/write to Cassandra (using dao)
cmwell-it	Integration tests
cmwell-kafka-assigner	Kafka assigner utility
cmwell-plugin-gremlin	_sp plugin to support Gremlin (graph traversal language)
cmwell-rts	Real time search a.k.a pub-sub (real time update of changes in the data according to a certain query)
cmwell-spa	CM-Well default web-app
cmwell-sparql-agent	SPARQL Agent Processor
cmwell-stortill	Utilities for manual data fixes
cmwell-tlog	TransactionLog (ingest queue) file mechanism. Old mechanism of communication between WS and the old background process.
cmwell-tracking	Tracking capabilities
cmwell-util	Common utilities that are used by multiple projects
cmwell-ws	Web Service (Play! Framework application)
cmwell-zstore	A distributed key/value store, using Cassandra. Used by multiple projects.
project	Build instructions and mechanism (SBT)

Running CM-Well

To run your compiled version of CM-Well:

Build CM-Well as described in Downloading and Building CM-Well.
Navigate to the server/cmwell-cons/app directory.
To launch the CM-Well console, run the following command: ./cmwell.sh
To install a Personal Edition (single-node installation) instance of CM-Well, run the following commands:
```
:load pe
pe.install
```

Note: Once CM-Well is installed, the CM-Well web UI is available at http://localhost:9000. See CM-Well Web Interface to learn more.

Code Contributions

If you want to make a contribution to CM-Well's code, either as an individual or as a company or other legal entity, please read, sign and send us the appropriate form (see further instructions inside the forms).

Support

Reporting Issues

You can report CM-Well issues at the CM-Well GitHub Issues Page.

Discuss

We use Gitter to talk about CM-Well. Feel free to come join us!

License

CM-Well is Open Source and available under the Apache 2 License. See the CM-Well License Page to learn more.

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