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NoSQL For Dummies
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NoSQL For Dummies

by Adam Fowler
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
456 pages
10h 3m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 20

Triple Stores in the Enterprise

In This Chapter

arrow Taking care of your data

arrow Managing facts about data alongside source data itself

As with any other type of database system, there are best practices for organizing and setting up triple stores to ensure consistent and reliable service. There is a difference, though, between triple stores and graph stores. That is, two different architectural approaches are taken in the design of triple stores and graph stores. These two approaches are due to different types of queries — graph wide analysis functions and listing records (subjects), and their properties that match some criteria. These differences lead to tradeoffs related to ensuring data durability, supporting high availability of associated services, and providing for disaster recovery.

In this chapter, I discuss the issues around maintaining a consistent view of data across both triple stores and graph stores. I also talk about a common enterprise use case of using a triple store to store facts about and relationships between data that is managed in other systems.

Ensuring Data Integrity

Most enterprises expect a database to preserve their data and to protect it from corruption during normal operations. This can be achieved through server side features, or settings in a client ...

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ISBN: 9781118905746