Popularity of Property Graphs

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Greetings!

There seems little doubt that property graphs are gaining ground but I
am less certain that the interchange of property graphs is quite as
well settled.

For example, one of the non-participants thus far in the
propertygraphs discussion supports label and property name characters
outside the ASCII character set if and only if each character is
preceded by a back tick. Creating the first family of "back tick"
languages I suppose.

Could that be transformed? Perhaps. I don't know how you would apply
the various Unicode algorithms since those are dependent upon order i
the original string. (Thinking of zero-spacing characters.)

Declarations about serializations that mandates the use of UTF-8 would
be a step in the right direction. Possibly enumerate the other aspects
of a property graph in the abstract that may or may not be supported.

Allow multiple properties on nodes? Edges? Multiple nodes to one edge?
etc.

Not mandating any serialization but giving serializations an outline
of what they may or may not choose to support.

I can't imagine serious players using labels and property names that
don't support Unicode. (Remember name characters and start name
characters? Why repeat a mistake?)

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Received on Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:31:02 UTC