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I’m probably wrong (I’ve been deep diving into RDF triplestores lately) but I think sparql does all that and has a W3C specification. Maybe the difference is y

I’m probably wrong (I’ve been deep diving into RDF triplestores lately) but I think sparql does all that and has a W3C specification. Maybe the difference is you don’t have to convert your data into (subject, property, object) triples? Been reading this hexastore paper and they seem to be trying to solve the same problems but I’m no data scientist so who knows.

cmrdporcupine 4y ago
Datalog generally has n-ary relations instead of binary relations like RDF. (That's not to say there aren't Datalogs restricted to binary relations. I believe the Datomic stuff is that way, but not this one). Datalog precedes SPARQL by years... decades. Though not standardized AFAIK. But also ... honestly... SPARQL also is not nearly as elegant to my eyes as Datalog. I'm glad to see a recent flush of interest for this stuff. Seems like there's a new Datalog article every week. (I am not a Datalog expert, but I'm a relational-model-nerd. Also as of a couple weeks from now I will be working at https://relational.ai/ https://relational.ai/. Check out their 'Rel' language, it's got similar vibes)