Dear David and Alexander,
Hmmm. Well to my mind the biggest difference is not to do with operations
and logic, SQL is very competent. The key difference is that a database has
a structure that is defined at database definition time, and data that is
added at runtime. On the other hand, a knowledge base has minimal structure,
and is defined by the type of knowledge base used. None of this has much to
do with what you can do with the different approaches, and a lot of things
you can do with either. A database is likely to be more efficient when there
are a lot of records with the same structure to be stored and referred to. A
knowledgebase is likely to be more efficient when flexibility in structure
is what is required. (01)
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] knowledge base and DBs (04)
In my mind, one of the big differences between a database (db) and a
knowledge base (kb): (05)
a databases store information, and may actually include calculated
information that is dependent on the stored information. Basically, a
storage facility for known facts. (06)
a knowledge base includes all that is in a database but also includes the
activity of inference from information, and has a far more sophisticated
model of hierarchical categories of information. A knowledge base also
includes all the standard First Order Predicate Calculus operations: AND OR
NOT FORALL THEREEXISTS as well. Knowledge bases handle infinite groups of
facts as it were. (07)
Does anyone have something to add to this? (08)
Dave Whitten
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Garcia Castro
<alexgarciac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all, I am having some troubles explaining the difference between a
> DB and a knowledge base, can someone let me know the difference?
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