If you need to retrieve data, get a database. If you need knowledge discovery, get an Ontology Works’ XKS™.

Our eXtensible Knowledge Server Family (the XKS™) makes it easy for users to get the powerful knowledge discovery system that fits their requirements. With the ability to use relational data stores of different types, the XKS™ forms a family of ontology-based deductive databases to suite customers' needs.

Maximum Flexibility for All Applications

The XKS™ gives unprecedented flexibility for our customers, since a variety of relational data stores can be employed to suit project requirements for performance, scale and portability -- and we can take advantage of the customer’s existing database licensing.

Ease of Use – Ask About Something, not just For Something

Thanks to its inherent high-fidelity model and extensive inference capability, users new to the system or new to the domain can make useful queries without extensive training. You don't have to know exactly where you're going to get started.

Hand Held Devices to Enterprise Systems

Ontology Works’ XKS™ Family can be used for every application from hand held devices to large-scale enterprise systems with large data sets and many simultaneous queries.

Scalable

Our XKS™ model also permits a Virtual Knowledge Server Architecture whereby multiple XKS instances all utilize the same persistence store, giving extremely high rate query access.

The XKS™ Functional Components

• the Server Presentation Layer, our API interface,
• the Semantic Query Optimizer assures excellent performance on complex query,
• our Inference Engine (PiQuE Engine) provides optimized massively parallel query processing,
• Persistence Store type is based on customer need.