Touché

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On Friday, October 24, 2014, Rupert Westenthaler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rafa
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Rafa Haro <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I completely understand your point but I partially disagree. I find the
> memory consumption requirement quite tough. It may prevent a lot of people
> to give it try or experiment with it. Actually, Chalitha had serious
> problems to find a machine for testing it. I agree that probably it is
> difficult to find a valid architecture for any disambiguation approach, but
> focusing only in Aida-Light I think that it is worth to provide also an
> other data management solution. It will affect the performance for sure,
> but at least it will let people use it without a super machine. I’m
> actually thinking in alternatives that can “simulate” memory access using
> the disk like LevelDB or similar.
> >
> > Makes sense?
> >
>
> IMO no and here is why:
>
> * If you need to solve this problem for a developer - find a way to
> trim down the size of the dataset - yago - so that he can test in
> setups with 5Gbyte of RAM
> * For a real installation you do not want to solve the problem as for
> dedicated machines memory is really cheap. Implementing an alternative
> that can use some hard drive technology would just be so much slower
> that you would always opt for the more memory option.
>
> So if your concern is about ease of deployment for developers or
> demoability I would recommend to work on a way to extract meaningful
> sub-sets of Yago that can be managed by Aida-Light setups requiring <
> 10GByte of RAM.
>
> best
> Rupert
>
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