Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Alexandre Rademaker
Hi Michael, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > > Hello Kingsley, > > ... > Thus, ACID has nothing to do with being Relational, in regards to > > Database document construction and/or management. > > I want to do this: > > BEGIN TRANSACTION > > > ... > COMMIT TRA

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Kingsley, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:06:00PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > I hope you are not assuming that I meant: ACID and tradition RDBMS are for > losers? Interpreting what you say is not easy for me. So forgive me if I have read too much into your statement. > My fundamental point

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/13/15 11:39 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Kingsley, yes, ACID and traditional RDBMS are for loosers. Think Big instead! Big data Big exploitation Big complexity Big technical debt Interest is payable to OpenLink Software. Regards, Michael Brunnbauer Michael, I hope you are not

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Gannon Dick
SQL queries are a semantics killer ***for those situations where the uncertainty inherent in semantics (Bayesian Interference) can not be eliminated and the deterministic solution ("frequentist Interference") is unavailable***. The terms Bayesian Interference and "frequentist Interference" are d

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Kingsley, yes, ACID and traditional RDBMS are for loosers. Think Big instead! Big data Big exploitation Big complexity Big technical debt Interest is payable to OpenLink Software. Regards, Michael Brunnbauer On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 3/12/15

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/13/15 10:05 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: We MUST end the SQL RDBMS power-grab! It has done a major disservice to the entire DBMS industry, over the last 40+ years. You have a multi-billion dollar industry that's fundamentally about companies and individuals that are data-access-heavy and

RE: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Margaret Warren
Hi Paul, I am not sure if you would have an interest at all in this – and it may not even be appropriate to suggest, but I will throw it out there. The ImageSnippets dataset (http://www.imagesnippets.com) is now published on datahub.io, we have about 16k images and with those images ar

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/12/15 5:38 PM, Paul Houle wrote: The goal is to show that you can do the same things you do with a relational database, and maybe *just* a little bit more. Every RDF store is a relational database management system (RDBMS). As you know, an RDF compliant RDBMS simply group sets of RDF 3-t

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