RDBMS, Virtuoso, libb, etc (was: Re: best db schema)

[Robin Berjon]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 21:47 , Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone here had ideas about the best DB schema one
>>   can use to store RDF in an RDBMS? A lot of those I've seen seem to
>> be crazy with the self-joining, so I was wondering if there were
>> better ideas.
>
> We've been thinking quite a lot about this and decided it is the wrong
> question. :-) Actually, professor Ian Horrocks told me this a while
> ago, but who trust an academic to have any informed opinions about  
> such
> practical matters anyway? ;-) I once asked if the rigorous definition
> of RDF would help researchers create more optimized database engines
> specifically for RDF and he said that no new research was needed, only
> a deeper understanding of database theory beyond the relational model.

Heh. Yes, I'm more than willing to accept that it's the wrong  
approach, and if I were implementing an RDF DB on a computer I  
probably wouldn't look at an RDBMS. But the idea I have in mind is to  
do that over Google Gears. I don't know if I'll get the time, and I'm  
not sure what the exact use case is, but it sounds sexy to me :)

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