- From: Tom Adams <tom@tucanatech.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:22:06 +1000
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
- Cc: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
On 12/02/2004, at 10:14 PM, Eric Jain wrote: > >> In this way, the same XQuery could be executed against a knowledge >> base and/or an actual TriX instance. One could then think of TriX >> as a means of integrating RDF and XQuery. > > This is an interesting application. We currently store triples in a > relational database. This is quite efficient, but requires us to map > RDQL statements to SQL. If TriX works well with XQuery to the extent > that XQuery could be used as an equally convenient but more flexible > replacement for the RDQL subset that we have implemented, this would be > a strong argument. On the other hand I'm slightly concerned about the > performance of XML databases (size of RDF/XML is 7GB). Anyone have any > experience here? Sure, we have a commercial offering of an RDF datastore, called the Tucana Knowledge Server (TKS). We have also open sourced the core as Kowari, see http://www.kowari.org/. Cheers, Tom -- Tom Adams | Tucana Technologies Software Engineer | P: +61 7 3876 2188 tom@tucanatech.com | F: +61 7 3876 4899 ------------------------------------------
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