SAN JOSE, CA, June 17, 2009 – SYSTAP, LLC, a boutique software consultancy, announced today that its open-source, distributed RDF database “bigdata®” has broken through significant barriers in semantic web database size and throughput, loading 12.7 Billion RDF statements with peak load rates of up to 300,000 statements per second and sub-second query times. This is the highest throughput rate reported so far anywhere in the world.