Design

This section of the wiki covers design documents past and present for the library. A lot of time design for simple features/fixes takes place via our Issue Tracker so only major features get covered here. In particular from 0.5.0 onwards we have heavily relied upon the issue tracker to monitor design tasks.

Future Designs

Design Document	Description
dotNetRDF 3.0	Details the planned simplification and refactoring of dotNetRDF for 3.0
Medusa	Details a planned new streaming query engine for dotNetRDF
SPIN	Details a planned .Net implementation of SPIN

Past Designs

Adopted Past Designs

Design Document	Description
dotNetRDF 0.4.1	Designs for 0.4.1 which resulted in the Handlers API abstraction.
dotNetRDF 0.4.2	Designs for 0.4.2 which resulted in some internal improvements to the SPARQL engine
dotNetRDF 0.5.0	Designs for 0.5.0 which included expanded the utility of the Handlers API and some .Net serialization support

Obsolete/Discarded Past Designs

Design Document	Description
dotNetRDF 0.4.3	Designs for 0.4.3 which included a SQL backend which we later discontinued due to performance limitations