TerminusDB
Data
graph database
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
6 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting project with a solid technical approach
From 2 comments
Congrats Gavin and crew! Know y'all have been working on this for a while, it's awesome to see it coming along.
weeksie on HNI wonder if you took a look into Dgraph which has an open source edition and supports loading data as RDF.
jhoechtl on HN
Objections
Marketing copy claims such as AI code generation were confusing and have been removed
From 2 comments
"AI Code Generation" I see this mentioned in the product comparison chart, but no mention of what that actually means.
bearjaws on HNI lose my interest to the project after I read "AI Code Generation" on the comparison table
peeyek on HN
Custom query language instead of an existing standard like Cypher, SPARQL or GQL
From 3 comments
I’m using my own (hyper)graph API I developed over years so I have some (albeit limited) experience in the matter. My opinion after reading the home page is that most of the…
tasogare on HNLooks cool, and being written in swi-prolog is a nice bonus. This is not a criticism, but I am curious why a new query language WOQL was designed and implemented instead of just…
mark_l_watson on HNInteresting project. Out of curiosity, why did you compare against kdb+ since the models are very different? KDB is mostly used for in-memory time-series while your seem to be a…
TheTank on HN
Semantic web and RDF tooling seen as unproven
From 1 comment
I checked the origin of the project and it seems to be an European grant to a few universities working on Semantic Web. Given the track record of this technology I’ll pass my…
tasogare on HN
Requests
Support for datalog or Cypher-style query languages
From 1 comment
We will 100% consider it and have been engaging with the community about the best approach. Cypher is by far the biggest graph query language and they seem to have the most…
LukeEF on HN
JSON-LD framing support
From 1 comment
1. Do you support JSON-LD Framing? I have a set of JSON-LD documents which I would like to query across and for each result return a nested JSON object for display in a user…
laurencerowe on HN
Benchmarks against RedisGraph
From 1 comment
1. Do you support JSON-LD Framing? I have a set of JSON-LD documents which I would like to query across and for each result return a nested JSON object for display in a user…
laurencerowe on HN
Questions
Why Prolog instead of a mainstream language
From 1 comment
This looks really great. It's interesting to see that 99% of the source code is Prolog. I'm curious to know what advantage--real or perceived--did Prolog provide over some other,…
tlowrimore on HN
Does it persist data to disk or is it purely in-memory
From 1 comment
Maybe a stupid question, but does it persist data on disk as well or is it a pure in-memory approach e.g. for analytical workloads?
ThePhysicist on HN
Why build a new query language instead of SPARQL or GQL
From 2 comments
Interesting project. Out of curiosity, why did you compare against kdb+ since the models are very different? KDB is mostly used for in-memory time-series while your seem to be a…
TheTank on HNLooks cool, and being written in swi-prolog is a nice bonus. This is not a criticism, but I am curious why a new query language WOQL was designed and implemented instead of just…
mark_l_watson on HN
Alternatives named
Dgraph
From 1 comment
I wonder if you took a look into Dgraph which has an open source edition and supports loading data as RDF.
jhoechtl on HN
Stardog
From 1 comment
TerminusDB is an open source (GPLv3) full featured in-memory graph database management system with a rich query language: WOQL (the Web Object Query Language). TerminusDB…
LukeEF on HN
Datomic and Fluree
From 1 comment
TerminusDB is an open source (GPLv3) full featured in-memory graph database management system with a rich query language: WOQL (the Web Object Query Language). TerminusDB…
LukeEF on HN
RedisGraph
From 1 comment
1. Do you support JSON-LD Framing? I have a set of JSON-LD documents which I would like to query across and for each result return a nested JSON object for display in a user…
laurencerowe on HN
Cypher and Gremlin
From 1 comment
I’m using my own (hyper)graph API I developed over years so I have some (albeit limited) experience in the matter. My opinion after reading the home page is that most of the…
tasogare on HN