The Newest or the Tried and True?

April 29, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Newest or the Tried and True?

When asked about the potential of triple stores replacing relational databases, one author provides his perspective in twofold.

Information Management brought this news to our attention in their article, “Will Triple Stores Replace Relational Databases?” To clear things up,  his answer was yes, and no.

He believes that relational databases may continue to perform a bit better on simple joins, but triple stores are much more flexible and are already producing better performance when it comes to complicated queries, rule handling and inferencing.

Of course, he also believes that triple stores will continue to be used in conjunction with relational databases in the near future, due to the large financial investment it took to implement.

Ironically, he used the analogy of buying a new car just like the one you have or the newest vehicle on the market. I don’t know if that was the best metaphor.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.