[Abqlispscheme] Mini Talks

[Jim Prewett]

Hi All,

I'll go ahead and commit to a short intro to the Allegro Graph "graph 
database" from Franz.  Included in this short intro (or maybe this should 
be considered 2 conntected mini-talks :) will be a discussion of using 
Allegro Prologue as the "query language" for the database (as opposed to 
something like SPARQL, the SQL of the "semantic web" AFAICT) and why I 
think that it is a very nice tool for querying your database

I'll talk a little about why I like it as opposed to a "traditional" 
relational database.  I'll see if I can't show off how its faster than all 
heck!  (Franz is claiming an order of magnitude speed-up over Oracle's 
graph database stuff for some standard benchmark!!!).

I'm not going to discuss how one might make a full "Web 3.0" app or 
anything - Maybe after you guys see my presentation, *someone else* can 
take that on (as I'd like to see it!).  I'm only going to discuss the 
database, a little about how to use it, serialize (a subset of) your 
databse to RDF/XML.  I will also not discuss any of the "clustering" stuff 
for improving the performance of your DB or how to use any of the Java 
interface to the AGraph (yuck!  who would want *that* ;P )

For my demo, I'll only be using the demo version freely available from 
Franz.  It is crippled, but not in a way we will care about, so if you 
want to follow along in your own REPL, get ACL and AGraph set up and 
working - you should be able to (require :agraph) from ACL before you show 
up. :)

really, this will be a fairly short talk :)
Jim


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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Daniel Lyons wrote:

> Earl suggested for the next meeting we consider adopting a "mini talk"  
> format. The idea is to have many speakers give short talks (on the  
> order of 10-15 minutes) so that less preparation time is needed for  
> speakers and also to increase the variety content and participation.
> 
> I think it's a good idea, so I'm going to throw out a few mini talks I  
> think I could prepare between now and the next meeting. Hopefully you  
> will be inspired by the lameness of my ideas and in your fury you will  
> decide to throw out a few of your own.
> 
>   * Continuations
>   * The SERIES macros (lazy evaluation for Common Lisp lists)
>   * Arc
>   * Hygienic macros
>   * Prolog
>   * Hope (the language)
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Lyons
> http://www.storytotell.org -- Tell It!
> 
> 
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