On Jan 4, 2006, at 12:15 PM, <tim.glover@bt.com> wrote: > that in an ideal world data > should be stored as triples Yes, that is my thinking, too. Set aside issues of maturity of technology, legacy software installations, etc...I do not see any[1] benefit in using relational storage at all. Sure, in the traditional relational world you need the relations to bind keys and normal attributes together, but given global unique- namespace keys (URIs) that binding becomes obsolete. I say: "Down with the tyranny of class"[2] :o) Jan [1] *MAYBE* performance gains due to having attribute values that usually come in groups on the same IO page, but there should be possibilities to have the DBMS doing this grouping automatically based on statistics (with OWL class definitions being used as hints maybe) [2] Taken from "Emancipating Instances from the Tyranny of Classes in Information Modeling" Parsons, Wand; 2000 ACM TODS ________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Jan Algermissen, Consultant & Programmer http://jalgermissen.com Tugboat Consulting, 'Applying Web technology to enterprise IT' http://www.tugboat.deReceived on Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:41:48 GMT
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