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RDF ... scalable to many millions of triples

"This might seem rather simple to be such an important technology, but it is RDF's very simplicity that makes it so powerful. Computer science already has plenty to say about the effectiveness of graphs for representing information. RDF allows many simple statements to be aggregated so that machine agents can apply the well-tested graph traversal techniques to glean data. These statements are called triples because there are three predominant parts (subject, object, and predicate). Databases of such triples have been shown to be scalable to many millions of triples, mostly because of the simplicity of this information. Such scalability is the only hope if a technology is to make an attempt at taming the vast Web. " from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xml



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