{"id":265,"date":"2007-02-22T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=265"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:22:05","slug":"talking-about-kowarimulgara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2007\/02\/talking-about-kowarimulgara\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Kowari\/Mulgara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had this exchange &#8211; figured I would put it in the blog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212; The note from Noah<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really interested in the Kowari stuff, but I&#8217;m just not sure about<br \/>\nexpecting service\/tool developers to push all their interesting data<br \/>\natoms.  I like the caching\/speed options that offers, but that can&#8217;t be<br \/>\nthe only way to get data.  I guess there&#8217;s no reason at all that one of<br \/>\nthese data queries couldn&#8217;t use whatever data was available in Kowari<br \/>\nand pull the other pieces needed.  I just never want to tell someone<br \/>\n&#8220;you can&#8217;t get there from here&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhen I get some more of it built up, I&#8217;m sure there will be potent<br \/>\nexamples (and pretty docs!) for the busiest among us to test drive<br \/>\nquickly and move on with life.  Like you said, talented people are<br \/>\ncrawling into the discussion, so this must not be too far off target.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep you lightly posted on what&#8217;s happening.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;  My Response<br \/>\nCool &#8211; I am looking to validate or reject a basic hypoethesis about Kowari.<br \/>\nIan and others who I really respect tell me that Kowari is *different*.  it scales unlike any prior object database or RDF store.  It does this by *absolutely* not using any relational technology &#8211; it effectively used RAM and spinning disk with random I\/O to do very fast has like stuff over large data sets. Also it spreads the data out over servers making best use of RAM and disk and CPU across the servers.<br \/>\nIn a way, it is like Lucene &#8211; it takes a different approach and accomplishes something that RDB systems cannot no matter how much you tune them.<br \/>\nIf on the other hand, Kowari is just another really rich API on top of a RDB &#8211; then I will be disappointed and relegate it to &#8220;something that sounded good but had no game in the final analysis.  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this exchange &#8211; figured I would put it in the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}