Re: semantic storage engine

[Renato Golin]

On 19/04/07, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@stripped> wrote:
> I'm fuzzy on the criteria for a semantic database, but SPASQL is a
> project aimed at providing RDF access to conventional relational data.
> There's a project page [SP], a talk I gave at XTech [SX] and a cvs
> repository [SC].

Thanks, very enlighting pages!

Also read some others after googling for sparql & mysql. But I didn't
noticed that sparql wouldn't allow us to query on a semantic data
structure as well. Sesame (openrdf.org) uses on called SeRQL which is
a bit different but not far from SQL as well.


> At some point, I'd like to add a triple store for stuff that doesn't
> fit in the relational schema. This is prototyped in FeDeRate (Algae2
> test case [TC]). Also want to port the query federation stuff to the
> MySQL implementation (use case [FD]).

I saw some perl modules on your page but didn't downloaded them, will
take a closer look.


> Steve Harris, of garlik.com, has implemented a triple store, but not
> within MySQL. He might be interested in this work.

There is also Sesame but I didn't go that deep yet to study the tool.
One colleague of mine said it is the standard today for storing RDFs
but it won't have all the other "added benefits" MySQL have.

Anyway, I'm still probing as I don't need it straight away but using
MySQL will always be on top of my list, if available. Also, if there
is a trend on that already I'd be very glad to be part of it.

cheers,
--renato

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