RE: Scope

[Geoff Chappell]
> We've developed a query and inference server for RDF that 
> runs on Win32 called RDF Gateway. For those of you who 
> haven't seen it, it's an rdf-based deductive database 
> with a SQL-like query language. 
> ...
> We support AND, OR, NOT (negation as failure), ...

Your approach shows the significance of the RDBMS/SQL
paradigm for any inference-based query answering system.
A query and inference server for RDF should basically 
provide at least as much expressivity/functionality as
a SQL-DB server (including negation-as-failure, as 
opposed to the views of the "conservatives" on this list).

-Gerd

Received on Thursday, 8 November 2001 05:43:46 UTC