Re: Hydra compared with JSON API, other specifications

On 1/6/16 7:29 AM, Martynas Jusevičius wrote:
> Nice slides indeed, however I would disagree about most issues of the
> Semantic Web:
>
> Triplestores:
> - immature,
> - slow,
>  -only few implementations (very few commercial).
>
> SPARQL:
> - complex
> - few implementations,
> - inappropriate for many real-world problems.
>
>
> In my experience, SPARQL is intuitive (much more so than SQL) and
> appropriate for very many real-world problems. And there's plenty of
> implementations, both commercial and open-source:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_subject-predicate-object_databases

Well stated !

+1000

Kingsley
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Colin Maudry <colin@maudry.com> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Great document, both concise and clear for a techie audience. Thanks!
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> On 06/01/16 10:09, Thomas Hoppe wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I compared Hydra to other approaches in general a bit here:
>>
>> http://vanthome.github.io/rest-api-essay-presentation/rest_apis.html#28
>>
>> BG, Thomas
>>
>> On 01/04/2016 01:14 PM, Paul Mackay wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m iterating on a couple of API projects and have been reviewing the status
>> of current API specification projects. JSON API
>> (http://www.cerebris.com/blog/2015/06/04/jsonapi-1-0/) reached v1.0 earlier
>> this year and is more comprehensive than HAL (see http://jsonapi.org/faq/).
>> I suspect Hydra could be even more flexible and comprehensive in terms of
>> defining an API. However within the JSON API community that spec is being
>> promoted as an anti-bikeshedding tool (avoid lots of debate about small
>> issues) and yet getting to 1.0 involved a lot of bikeshedding!
>>
>> Has there been any comparisons between JSON API and Hydra, and what is
>> behind the design choices of Hydra? I suppose a similar FAQ for Hydra along
>> the lines of why it goes beyond other API framework specifications would be
>> great :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Mackay | 07761 050542 | www.folklabs.com
>>
>>
>>
>


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