It’s All About Graphs
July 8th, 2004
Stefano Mazzocchi has an interesting entry It’s All About Graphs
Exerpt:
People in all sort of communities realize how important semi-structured data is and how much it will be in the future. These people tend to think that XML will solve the problem for them and once we have a serious XML query language, we’ll be set forever.
Well, wrong. Relations are tables, XML documents are trees, and, guess what, RDF models are graphs. Yep, you got it, RDF can describe both.
A colleague and I have been discussing the various post-relational approaches to structured data. We have a pair of very interesting use cases to work on. I’ll try and post more on this topic eventually.
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