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Evaluating easiness, performance for django/RDF, etc

3 points by Serene 17y ago

Greetings, I need to quickly evaluate easiness of building and running an application with semantic vs semi-semantic vs relational DB management tools. How long would it take - for a django/python, Java, C or Lisp professional - to create a very simple API - just a twitter-like or google-like box for entry of words with prompts from my DB, to be placed in a separate table that could be queried as a part of the database? How much would it cost? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Irene

jaddison 17y ago
Using Django with the django-piston project (link below) enables you to create a very easy web REST-based API. Using the javascript library jQuery and delving into its copious amount of plugins (autocomplete example link below) would enable you to have a responsive AJAX interface for a text-entry box. You wouldn't need django-piston to get the AJAX aspect of what I mention above to work, but it somewhat simplifies getting results in a JSON format, and allows you to easily add in new API calls at a later date with its familiar format (well, familiar once you get used to it). Links: django-piston: http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home jQuery: http://jquery.com/ http://jquery.com/ jQuery autocomplete example: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm AJAX definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) JSON definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
- Serene 17y ago
  Very helpful. Thanks for the information, It turned out to be easier than I thought.