I'd say that you can often use nodes and relationships without URIs,
although maybe some concept of IDs other than the internal ids of nodes and
relationships. Data stored in neo4j can often be seen as triples-like
statements:
(personA)--[KNOWS]-->(personB)
but that's just the simplest form... f.ex:
(personA)--[KNOWS]-->(personB)--[MARRIED_TO]-->(personC)
|
[LIVES_IN]
|
v
(Sweden)
and you can traverse that as one graph, whereas each node-relationship-node
could in this setting be viewed as one triple in RDF terms. I think RDF is
needlessly limiting graph capabilities to triples, and neo4j (and fellow
property graphs) does not. Also check out the Cypher query language,
http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/1.4.M06/cypher-query-lang.html
2011/7/3 noppanit <[email protected]>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm very interested in RDF and SPARQL, but I'm a total newbie. However,
> since neo4j can do the same thing without having to use RDF or SPARQL to
> traverse the graph. Would it be better if I use RDF to store the graph with
> URIs or I can just ignore that and use pure nodes and relationships to
> store
> the data, but to store in triples-like structure? And what does neo4j guys
> think about RDF and the direction of neo4j with semantic web, because I
> think neo4j is the perfect tool for semantic web.
>
> Cheers,
> Toy.
>
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