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Michael Misamore

Thought-provoking article on vs models: neo4j.com/blog/rdf-triple-stor

The "user likes user" example was a poor choice for counts (it makes no sense, and RDF has the correct idempotent behavior). Representing a grocery order would be more compelling: "user purchased foo" is awkward in RDF for counts. However, "user fooPurchaseCount n" is tenable together with "fooPurchaseCount purchaseCountFor foo". More steps? Yes. Impossibly inconvenient? No.

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The "different flights with same departure and destination locations" example also isn't convincing: the flights are distinct, so we have "flight1 a flight", "flight2 a flight", "flight1 source cityA", "flight1 dest cityB", "flight1 cost 123", "flight1 dist 4100", etc for flight2.

I don't see any modelling problem here, either. In fact, the granularity of RDF gives incredible querying flexibility.