Hi Marteen, they have evaluated, and rejected (rightly so) WDQ as one alternative. They also seem to have all my query commands covered, AFAICT. See the notes Nik linked to.
Personally, I will be relieved once running such a vital service is not on my part-time shoulders anymore :-) WDQ has been challenging and fun, but it should really be an official WMF service offering a Wikidata query API, just like Wikidata proper is. Cheers, Magnus On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nik! > > Nikolas Everett schreef op 7-1-2015 om 0:01: > >> tl/dr: we're going to move forward building a query service against >> Titan/Cassandra rather than OrientDB or ArangoDB or anything else. >> > Great to hear that you're making progress! On thing you didn't mention in > your email or in the spreadsheet is that we already have a query service > prototype at http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ . You do know about that, right? > > Whatever you come up with will be compared with WikidataQuery. You need to > manage expectations here and communicate. WikidataQuery is your baseline. > If you lack certain features that are in WikidataQuery, the new query > service sucks from a user perspective. If on the other hand you have things > that are better (reliability? speed?), the new query service is a good next > step from a user perspective. > > I would strongly suggest you make a comparison of WikidataQuery and the > new query service so the users know what to expect and can comment in an > early stage. If you don't do this you risk ending up with a technical > outstanding service that nobody is using. > > Maarten > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >
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