Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

We are discussing about how SPARQL can do everything that Restpark can.
This is obviously true but Restpark isn't trying to compete with SPARQL.

The idea behind Restpark is that: if we make it really simple for people to
provide a querying interface of their data, then we simply increase the
number of accessible RDF resources! Just imagine how many data sets out
there exist that are not available as RDF simply because it is too
complicated to switch this data to a SPARQL compatible database.

So for me SPARQL is not scalable because it requires you to use a SPARQL
database! What if I can't use Virtuoso? What if my data is using some
MongoDB/CouchDB/NoSQL database?


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Jerven Bolleman <me@jerven.eu> wrote:

> Hi Aidan,
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Aidan Hogan wrote:
> >> The credo that SPARQL does not scale in comparison to restpark does not
> hold true because restpark cannot answer queries that SPARQL endpoints
> could.
> >
> > But this is *precisely* the reason why it does hold true! :) SPARQL does
> not scale in comparison to Restpark because (and only because) SPARQL is a
> complex language and Restpark is a simple language.
> Then I made a mistake in parsing your scaling semantics ;)
> Your scaling means "be fast in answering simple queries"
> My scaling means "be capable in answering complex queries with the
> advantage that it is also very fast in answering simple queries"
>
> As SPARQL is as fast as answering simple queries as restpark and can
> answer more complicated queries as well. SPARQL must scale in more
> dimensions than restpark.
> Therefore SPARQL scales and restpark does not ;)
> >> Not competing in most of the performance race is not the same as
> winning the race ;)
> >
> > Who said anything about a race. :)
> Well we where measuring something on a scale ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Aidan
> Cheers,
> Jerven
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