- From: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:56:24 +0100
- To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
- Cc: public-hydra@w3.org, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
Hi Kjetil, > But I think that misses the crucial point, which is how things happen behind that. Strictly, Ruben is right; you can basically materialize all possible triple patterns, with pages, and store them in a file system. In that case, it is correct that no DBMS is involved. > > However, I would claim that this is not practical in almost all cases. It really depends on the update frequency of the datasets. Some of the most referenced datasets in the SemWeb are static, like the various DBpedia versions we all know very well, and those never change once created (not talking about Live). Hence, we are able to host them through the HDT compressed triple format, which gives excellent performance for those cases, far better than what I've seen any DBMS do. Once you have updates, the answer certainly changes. DBMSes are then definitely the better answer. Best, Ruben
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