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by anon1253 3290 days ago
We use quite a bit of SPARQL to reason over medical ontologies. It's not exactly "semantic web", but ontological knowledge (such as the Gene Database, UMLS, etc) are naturally serialized in graphs, which makes them an excellent fit for RDF triplestores, hence SPARQL. We regularly query millions of concepts with billions of relations in milliseconds. True, RDF under the hood is just a EAV model, but thinking about the identity between triples, graphs, and logic programming makes a lot of sense for us.

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