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In order to achieve this representation, ontologies are used to describe the healthcare data. Combining ontological healthcare data with the used and obtained data can be maintained by storing the entire health domain data inside big data stores that support both relational and graph-based ontological data. There are several big data stores and different types of big data sets in the healthcare domain. The goal of this paper is to determine the most applicable ontology data store for storing the big healthcare data. For this purpose, AllegroGraph and Oracle 12c data stores are compared based on their infrastructural capacity, loading time, and query response times. Hence, healthcare ontologies (GENE Ontology, Gene Expression Ontology (GEXO), Regulation of Transcription Ontology (RETO), Regulation of Gene Expression Ontology (REXO)) are used to measure the ontology loading time. Thereafter, various queries are constructed and executed for GENE ontology in order to measure the capacity and query response times for the performance comparison between AllegroGraph and Oracle 12c triple stores.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e19010030","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,11]],"date-time":"2017-01-11T10:36:49Z","timestamp":1484131009000},"page":"30","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Comparing Relational and Ontological Triple Stores in Healthcare Domain"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8064-2905","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ozgu","family":"Can","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emine","family":"Sezer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Okan","family":"Bursa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Murat","family":"Unalir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"34","DOI":"10.1038\/scientificamerican0501-34","article-title":"The Semantic Web","volume":"284","author":"Hendler","year":"2001","journal-title":"Sci. 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