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by hipsters_unite
3288 days ago
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> RDF/EAV is more graph than relational structured. It doesn't solve the exact same problem. Yeah 100% this. Comparing a graph data model and a relational data model while obviously possible isn't really all that fruitful so long as each is being use to solve the problem that they're the best fit for. |
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Firstly: RDF is an inadequate expression of most graphs, and SPARQL is a bad way to query graphs. See my comment here on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14603090
Secondly: graphs storage is something which is very tempting in theory but very hard to get right in practice. I'm not going to say it is never appropriate (that is clearly untrue), but for most production applications it isn't the right choice.
I'd note for example that most social applications use a RDMS to store a single layer of friends (and then perhaps have a second graph DB for batch/stream processing of graph functions).