Re:Apache Jena
by jimmy_ruska on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:53AM
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I don't see what you can't do with neo4j, neptune, datomic. Neptune offers a sparql interface. You could easily specify an explicit schema. If you wanted to make an ontology that's globally unique you could force it to be defined at a centrally defined application level. If you wanted a inferring traversal, for example applying some type of hierarchy, you could write your own iterator in java in neo4j if you wanted to, or just apply multiple types to the vertex.
Re:Apache Jena
by solidasparagus on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:46AM
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The biggest problem with Solid IMO has always been that very few people care about privacy enough to deal with the pain of managing their own data.
To make a very short summary, RDF is more concerned with the possibility to link data, so each piece of information is identified by a dereferencable URI, and can be described with an explicit model called an ontology (fancy word for a vocabulary used to describe data). On the other hand, Neo4J is more concerned with performance, but does not consider linking data accross the Web, or using an explicit schema. And for Marmotta, it is in kind of a bad place right now, the development seems a bit stalled, and the standard it implements is quite complicated compared to the majority of the problem it solves. This might evolve however, since Linked Data Platform (said standard) is now promoted by SOLID (https://solid.inrupt.com/), a new initiative by Tim Berners Lee et al. to enable a truly distributed Web.