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Alex R
Alex R

Reputation: 11881

In what real-world scenarios is a semantic database better than a relational one?

Are there any real live (non-academic) and public (open-source or free) examples of a semantic database like Metalog being used to solve a computing problem that traditionally had been done with relational databases?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 188

Answers (1)

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328536

Semantic databases work much better if only part of your data follows a schema.

If you need additional columns in a semantic database, you just add them. Even for single rows. This is hard or inefficient in a relational database.

Also clustering is much more simple with semantic or tuple databases. Most often, this means just to install the database on N servers and set a few config options.

Upvotes: 3

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