On 2 Jul 2010, at 17:07, Paul Houle wrote:
> ow, if hardware cost was no object, I suppose I could keep triples in a
> huge distributed main-memory database. Right now, I can't afford that.
> (If I get richer and if hardware gets cheaper, I'll probably want to
> handle more data, putting me back where I started...)
Paul, I always wonder about the odd similarity of this argument with the
argument
people used to make that java is slow. It is now of course proven that in many
apps Java is faster than C, because it can do just in time compilation: ie the
compiler
can look at how the code is USED to make optimisations that a static compiler
just cannot.
So similarly with RDF stores. Is it not feasible that one may come up with just
in time
storage mechanisms, where the triple store could start analyising how the data
was used in
order then to optimise the layout of the data on disk? Perhaps it could end up
being a
lot more efficient than what a human DB engineer could do in that case.
Henry
