RDF will beat Relationnal Databases

I've read some time ago an very interesting article about RDF and relationnal databases. I've exactly the same feeling : we all can gain to replace many SQL databases with RDF databases in many contexts.

The article : RDF as database by JBowtie. (the whole blog about semantic web is also interesting)

I would like to see Nuxeo more involved into the semactic web and I'm happy that CPSSchemas will very shortly support RDF so that any document will be able to render as RDF Description.

Imagine... All our CPS indexing their metadatas in an RDF database allowing to search all our content (intranet, blog, extranet, websites, etc.) in a seamless and simple way. Then imagine yourself using OWL to connect all those different metadatas schemas (if they were) or making them evolve, scripting in SPARQL to perform complex query and.... you got the best index / search platform that we ever dreamt ! (I, in fact :-)

Before dreaming I just like to see RDF in CPSSchemas and used in CPS (to put an RDF description, by default, in HTML pages) and maybe the integretion of Zemantic to replace some index of ZCatalog.

Other interesting links :

• Planet RDF