Franz Inc

Franz Inc.^[1] is an American owned technology company, focused on developing and deploying Graph Database solutions,^[2][3] Common Lisp,^[3] and Semantic Data Lake technologies.^[4][5][6]

History

Franz Inc. was founded in 1984 as a vehicle to produce and sell Macsyma.^[7] While that never developed into a business, the Company did sell Franz Lisp while a new Common Lisp implementation, Allegro Common Lisp, was developed, and is still sold to commercial and academic users today. In 2005, Franz began a development program focused on Semantic Web technologies. The resulting product, AllegroGraph, is a transactional, and scalable Graph Database product. In early 2015, AllegroGraph v5 added n-Dimensional indexing capabilities^[8][9] which provides a novel mechanism for efficient storage and retrieval of multi-dimensional data, and spatial data in particular. In mid 2015, Franz announced its collaboration to develop the Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare. The deployment is a healthcare focused collaboration between Franz Inc., Montefiore Medical Center, Intel, Cisco and Cloudera and was showcased at HIMSS 2015.^[4][10][11]

Overview

The flagship product of Franz is AllegroGraph,^[12] ACID compliant graph database focused on W3C standards for Semantic Technologies. The current release of AllegroGraphuniquely incorporates Geospatial, Temporal, Reasoning and Social Networking Analytics libraries as part of what the Company has termed its Activity Recognition package. In addition to AllegroGraph’s ability to process billions of RDF triples,^[13] AllegroGraph also supports SPARQL, Full Text Search, Triple-level security, RDFS++, Prolog, JavaScript and integration with MongoDBand SOLR.^[13]

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