AllegroGraph News: Free Webinar: Selecting the RIGHT DB - RDBMS vs. RDF

AllegroGraph News: November 13, 2008

In this issue:

1. Free Webinar: November 20, 10:00 AM Pacific. Selecting the RIGHT
Database for your Project (Relational vs. RDF Triple Store)
2. New "Gruff" Training Videos - A Graph Browser for AllegroGraph
3. Upcoming Conference: Ontology for the Intelligence Community (OIC 2008)
4. AllegroGraph 3.1.1 ending beta test, includes Python client
5. Recorded past Semantic Technologies Webinars

1. Free Webinar: Selecting the RIGHT Database for your Project
(Relational vs. RDF Triple Store)

This seminar will discuss the similarities and differences between
relational databases, object oriented databases and RDF triple
stores. We will cover several topics for consideration when trying to
decide which type of database to use for application development.

Franz Inc. has been in the business of supporting relational databases
for over 20 years, object oriented databases for over 10 years and RDF
triple stores now for 4 years. During this presentation we look at a
number of customer use cases and offer our informed perspective on
data storage technologies.

For registration:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/907092380

2. New "Gruff" Training Videos - A Graph Browser for AllegroGraph

Gruff is a triple-store browser that displays visual graphs of subsets
of a store's resources and their links. There are now 8 short training
videos on various aspects of using the tool, about 1/2 hour total.

Learn more about Gruff and view the videos here:
http://agraph.franz.com/gruff/

3. Upcoming Conference: Ontology for the Intelligence Community (OIC 2008)

December 3-4, Fairfax, Virginia. The theme this year is "Towards
Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources". We
will be giving talks on "Common Logic for an RDF Store" and
"Unification of Geospatial Reasoning, Temporal Logic, & Social Network
Analysis in an RDF Database"

For details:
http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08/index.html

4. AllegroGraph 3.1.1 ending beta test, includes Python client

AllegroGraph 3.1.1 will be available soon. The main thing new with
this version is the inclusion of a Python client. We will be posting
3.1.1 for download in the next few days, and will announce its
availability via RSS feed.

5. Recorded past Semantic Technologies Webinars

http://agraph.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/

Also, you can visit the AllegroGraph Java Edition Learning Center here:
http://agraph.franz.com/support/learning/

Subscribe to Franz RSS feeds:
http://franz.com/rss.lhtml

We welcome your comments. Please reply to this message or send mail
to allegrograph@franz.com.

Best regards,

--
Steve Sears Internet: ssears@franz.com
Product Marketing Manager http: //franz.com/
555 12th St #1450, Phone: (510) 452-2000, ext. 154
Oakland, CA 94607 FAX: (510) 452 0182