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by hcarvalhoalves 1459 days ago
> However! There is something to be said about triples and normalisation. Is the general idea of triples a really good format for databases? Maybe not. Is it a really good format for knowledge representation? Yeah I think so.

There's Datomic and XTDB as practical examples of databases built on data models that equal/similar to triples.

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Right, not semantic web technologies and not very often used. Before someone jumps in with, "but it's used at....", I'm not saying people aren't using it but in the grand scheme they are extremely niche products.