On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 08:51 -0500, Aaron wrote: > I am presenting on PostgreSQL tonight and someone e-mailed me with a > question before my talk so I might be able to find him an answer: > > "We are starting a new, large project that uses an ontology based ( > RDF - Resource Description Framework > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework ) approach > to organize data, which provides a lot of flexibility. The only viable > database we have found that supports this is Oracle, who have tightly > integrated their database interface to efficiently support sparql ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL ) queries. Other databases seem to > only interface to the open source jena technology, which fails to > scale to larger data sets as it tries to read huge chunks of data into > memory. > > We would prefer to go with an open source option, but can't. Do you > know of a software package that can efficiently connect RDF to > PostgreSQL?" What do you mean "connect"? If you want to support RDF as storage we do have native xml capabilities. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-xml.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Aaron Thul > http://www.chasingnuts.com > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
