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LAKEsuperior
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LAKEsuperior is an alternative `Fedora
Repository `__ implementation.

Fedora is a mature repository software system historically adopted by
major cultural heritage institutions. It exposes an
`LDP `__ endpoint to manage
any type of binary files and their metadata in Linked Data format.

Guiding Principles
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LAKEsuperior aims at being an uncomplicated, efficient Fedora 4
implementation.

Its main goals are:

- **Reliability:** Based on solid technologies with stability in mind.
- **Efficiency:** Small memory and CPU footprint, high scalability.
- **Ease of management:** Tools to perform monitoring and maintenance
included.
- **Simplicity of design:** Straight-forward architecture, robustness
over features.

Key features
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- Drop-in replacement for Fedora4
- Very stable persistence layer based on
`LMDB `__ and filesystem. Fully
ACID-compliant writes guarantee consistency of data.
- Term-based search (*planned*) and SPARQL Query API + UI
- No performance penalty for storing many resources under the same
container
- Extensible provenance metadata tracking
- Multi-modal access: HTTP (REST), command line interface and native Python
API.
- Fits in a pocket: you can carry 50M triples in an 8Gb memory stick.

Installation & Documentation
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With Docker::

git clone https://github.com/scossu/lakesuperior.git
cd lakesuperior
docker-compose up

With pip (assuming you are familiar with it)::

pip install lakesuperior

The full, current documentation is maintained in `Read The Docs
`__. Please refer to that for more info,
including installation instructions.

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