Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a triple store

2014-08-13 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
> I think you're going to need to perform experiments and decide if the flexibility you get is worth the performance you're going to lose. > As you can see from John R Pierce's response it is only matter of time before someone (correctly) warns you about the performance issues with EAV derivatives,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a triple store

2014-08-12 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
> Is there a reason why hstore or json is not an option? That may work a lot > better than this approach. I don't want to move away from SQL common features so I can have a test environment using SQLite and deploy on PostgreSQL. This approach looks elegant and simple to me. Using a new table per

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a triple store

2014-08-12 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
Hello, I'm looking into gathering information about geographical locations: - Coordinates - Place name - Pictures - etc. Since a place can be anything, a specific place may need any kind of data type to be described. I'm therefore looking into using the same method as the semantic Web and tryi