Re: Storing RDF in a relational database

On 31 Mar, 2004, at 11:43, Steve Harris wrote:
> In practice I found that seperating namespaces from "the other bit" was
> less efficient - it makes the queries more complex and has not read
> advantages

   I second this observation.  My solution was to use tries [1] in a 
DAWG [2] like way to store the string table, which has many benefits 
for both lookup speed and storage size (and thus caching efficiency).


J.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/trie.html
[2] http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/directedAcyclicWordGraph.html