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What's the use-case for a triple store vs a graph DB? Social networks?
by alephnan 7y ago
What's the use-case for a triple store vs a graph DB? Social networks?
- PaulHoule 7y agoPeople also call triple stores graph DBs. Triple stores support a disciplined set of primitive types that come from xml schema, so you have "xsd:integer", "xsd:datetime", "xsd:decimal", really the critical things that are missing in JSON. That is, there is a kind of fact where the object is a literal. Triple stores also support facts where the object is an identifier for another object. That could be a URI which names it, or it could be an internal "blank node" identifier. Other kinds of "graph database" have different semantics, for instance they might not have support for literals, or have a different set of literal data types, or they might let you attach facts to the edges (hypergraph, property graph, ...)