- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:53:01 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
I cant help observing that the potential for terminology confusion increases exponentially when we have many terminologies to try to get aligned. Maybe trying to get analogies with DBMS is a losing game. Especially when we all agree that the analogy is imperfect in any case. Pat On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > On 08/24/2012 12:09 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote: >> On 08/24/2012 07:32 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> Sandro, >>> >>> How would you map g-box, g-snap, and g-text in formal relational DBMS terminology? Such a mapping would help many. Basically, mapping to relations, sets of tuples, and notation. >>> >> >> I'm not really fluent in RDBMS theory terminology. I do know the terminology database app developers use, though, I think -- the kind of stuff you find in the Oracle or MySQL manuals (talking about "tables" instead of "relations"). In that terminology, I'd say: >> >> g-box: table (or view) >> g-snap: dump of a table (or view) >> g-snap: not something one normally deals with; either: >> - a state of a table; or >> - a value which is the set of all the rows in a table. >> >> This is more of an analogy than a real correspondence, since a table row is not the same thing as an RDF triple, in general. (You could make a Subject/Property/Value table, but the data typing of the value wouldn't work right, in general.) >> >> -- Sandro > > I don't see how a g-box can be a table, as a table is only a potentially small part of a database. > > I think that perhaps the mapping to informal usage is: > > g-box: database > g-snap: database > g-text: not used much as databases aren't often moved around, perhaps database dump, but that's not really very correct > > peter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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