Re: Triples storage

On 26 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:

>
> On 9/26/07, Renato Golin <renato@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I'm quite interested in triplet storages but what I found is that  
>> there
>> is no consensus nor standard for anything in that area.
>
> In hindsight, I believe my question was a bit hopeless: as Arjohn
> says it's unlikely that a consensus will ever develop on the matter.
> There will be various options with pros and cons. My bad. =)
>
> I guess my question really had to be more in the direction of:
> are there two or three architectures for triplets storage to choose
> from?

I think there are many more than that. Much like with SQL engines,  
there are almost as many sotrage algorithms as products.

>> There are several storage engines but each one doing it's own way.
>> Also, the support to query languages is quite random.
>
> Indeed I seem to have noticed that. Is the field still so novel
> that there are no full implementation of RQL?
> Yet, the specifications seems to have been stable for some time... =?

No idea, but there are full implementations of SPARQL, and lots of  
more-or-less complete ones.

- Steve

Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 11:59:30 UTC