- From: revi s. <reviswami78@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:14:14 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20060829011415.26207.qmail@web58308.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
I'm a newbie to RDF and have been facing a fundamental question as read more about RDF. RDF positions itself away from plain XML representations of data saying XML suited for representing data with containment hierarchies, and where "order" is important, whereas RDF has a flatter structure, represents only references among different entities. That sounds just like what a relational database is supposed to do, and those are critieria when deciding whether to used an XML DB or a relational DB to store your data. Where does RDF fit in, and how does it compare to relational databases. I keep hearing that databases are not good for "semi-structured" data, but am not yet able to understand how RDF addresses that. Mozilla for example uses RDF for very structured (table of content) data. What would be points of comparison where RDF is better suited to store and query my data? Revi S. --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
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