Re: [ontolog-forum] Knowledge graphs by Google and Facebook

[Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/20/13 10:44 AM, Sjir Nijssen wrote:

KI

> Ask the folks behind that [IBM Watson] project and they will tell you

> how much the LOD cloud contributed to Watson's smarts.

 

Yes, indeed.  They gather up all that data from everywhere, and they store it and process it in -- guess what? -- DB2.  A relational DBMS!

Again, Virtuoso (our product) is a SPARQL and SQL hybrid. Guess what? DB2 is also such a thing i.e., it has added that dimension. Relational DBMS never meant SQL. That's the problem. Relational Database Technology is broad. All Graph, RDBMS, Deductive, or whatever moniker the market puts on them are a kind of Relational Database.

My difference with John is that he is unfairly undermining the current state of art re. Webby Relational Database technology.

Facebook, Google etc.. are leveraging the very things espoused by the Semantic Web vision etc..

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