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by b3tt3rw0rs3 2471 days ago
SPARQL requires buy-in into the world of the semantic web even when all you want to do is store and query graph data.

Also, property graphs wouldn't have managed to get the traction they have if SPARQL would have been sufficient. SPARQL simply suffers from being designed in a way that does not sufficiently address the needs of application developers, in expressivity, ease of use, let alone allowing easy migration of existing relational data by sharing the same type system with SQL.
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namedgraph 2470 days ago
Not true at all. You can query an RDF dataset with SPARQL and not have any RDFS/OWL schema. A schema/ontology/vocabulary gives you a domain model, but it’s optional.
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namedgraph 2470 days ago
Property graphs are mostly popular due to Neo4J marketing enabled by VC dollars. W3C has no such backing.
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