- From: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:19:54 +0100
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Ben O'Steen <bosteen@gmail.com>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-lod@w3.org, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich@pudo.org>
* [2010-11-24 22:44:53 +0000] Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> écrit: ] ] Or, to put a different slant on it: a competent developer who has spent ] years using SQL databases day-to-day finds it easier to use SQL and the ] relational data model than a different data model and different query ] language that he's spent a few days trying out. I don't think that's what's happening here, or at least not entirely. People coming from a RDB background expect things like SUM, COUNT, INSERT, DELETE, not to mention GROUP BY to work. But SPARQL 1.1 is still very new, each store implements them in slightly different ways with slightly different syntax, sometimes requiring workarounds in application code. With RDBs we have good libraries for abstracting away these differences. We still require people to pay a lot closer attention to what the underlying plumbing is and how it works (and if the binary package they got with their OS might be out of date or has to be compiled from source or even patched - the horror!). These things prevent people from getting on with what they see as the task at hand. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664
Received on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:20:24 UTC