- From: David R. Karger <karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:55:18 -0500
- To: mark-h.butler@hp.com, www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Just a stray thought from last week's call. There was much talk about scalability. It's important to be clear that there are two completely different kinds of scalability for us to worry about. We need database scalability to deal with large numbers of triples. Entirely separately, we need ontology scalability that will let us deal with hundreds of different ontologies in the system. The issue of database scalability is relatively well understood, I think, but the issue of ontology scalability is a mysterious one. Our recent demo showed a plausible story for how to cope with scaling from one ontology to two, but I think we are going to have to work a lot harder at the UI and system architecture if we want to get all the way up to hundreds---ie, we can no longer due extensive per-ontology software development.
Received on Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:56:19 UTC