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Re:Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps? by joshu on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @12:25PM (#320836)
I think the thing that trips people up is that the "semantic" in semantic web is talking about the semantics of the schemas, not the the data.

I think a) RDF is a pain in the ass to scale and b) fails to deal with public social systems, which almost always need to record the creator and time of a triple, and this is a pain to always represent in RDF (reify every statement?)

Very early on, I considered using RDF as a data store for delicious, but it was not even close to performant.

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Re:Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps? by kendallclark on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @01:21PM (#320902)
Things change; I wonder how much has changed since "very early on" -- Oracle 11g's RDF support is extremely scalable, for example. Of course Oracle is evil so YMMV, but there's nothing timeless or essential in Joshua's claims here.
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