[infogrid-dev] Some interesting graph database articles

[Brad Jones]

Ok, so we both can be "cheeky"  ... at least I was able to tease that last
post out of you ;-) ... and it's a doozy!  Speaking directly and
specifically to the inherent distributed nature of InfoGrid and its'
correlation to the Web/Linked Data/Semantic Web models is the ultimate
opportunity here as I see it anyways.  Unfortunately my lack of technical
acumen precludes me from directly taking part in discussions like this (the
links referred to in the beginning of this thread) ... I simply can't
properly follow-through and therefore potentially might do a disservice to
the InfoGrid platform when arguing it's architecture/features/benefits.
This "Ayende" fellow is no slouch, are as a great number of his followers as
evidenced by the quality of comments to his posts.  Furthermore I like his
attitude of "the right tool for the job".  The fact that he is critically
analysing the database world across the board right now through his series
of blog postings around "NoSQL" provides a real opportunity to put forth the
InfoGrid story to an obviously receptive and curious audience.

 

... ok, end of rant J

 

From: infogrid-dev-bounces at lists.infogrid.org
[mailto:infogrid-dev-bounces at lists.infogrid.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
Sent: May-07-10 4:14 PM
To: InfoGrid Technology Discussion
Subject: Re: [infogrid-dev] Some interesting graph database articles

 

Now that is really no excuse! Some people call graph databases the "box and
arrow" databases. Everybody can draw boxes and arrows!! Much simpler to draw
than tables and foreign keys. Never mind supercolumns ...  ;-)

 

The confounding thing about this article and several like it is that they
seem to make the same mistake as the relational database guys: if you start
with a single database, and then try to decentralize it, it is very hard.
They are right about that. Instead, if you start with the decentralized case
(like in InfoGrid, or other NoSQL technologies) and make a single-node
deployment the special case, everything is relatively straightforward.

 

 

On May 7, 2010, at 10:59, Brad Jones wrote:





Hey, I'm a "suit" ;-) ... yet intrigued by InfoGrid! (which means I need
someone to draw me a picture)

 

From: infogrid-dev-bounces at lists.infogrid.org
[mailto:infogrid-dev-bounces at lists.infogrid.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
Sent: May-07-10 1:31 PM
To: InfoGrid Technology Discussion
Subject: Re: [infogrid-dev] Some interesting graph database articles

 

Yeah, I was thinking about it once I get around to it ... No reason you
couldn't write something about it, too, though ;-)

 

 

On May 7, 2010, at 10:13, Brad Jones wrote:






http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/05/06/that-no-sql-thing-graph-databases.
aspx

 

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/05/07/that-no-sql-thing-scaling-graph-da
tabases.aspx

 

Johannes,

 

It would certainly be interesting/instructional to see a response from you
to the second post with respect to InfoGrid.

 

Cheers,

 

Brad

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