Getting knowledge graph semantics and definitions right, semantic web standards used in the real world, by Google no less, and ArangoDB, Azure CosmosDB, Neo4j and TigerGraph announcing new versions.
By now you probably know that knowledge graphs are in Gartner’s Hype Cycle. But how does one actually define a knowledge graph? My take on ZDNet.
Knowledge graphs beyond the hype: Getting knowledge in and out of graphs and databases | ZDNet_What exactly are knowledge graphs, and what's with all the hype about them? Learning to tell apart hype from reality…_www.zdnet.com
And here is Stardog’s Kendall Clark’s take:
What is a Knowledge Graph?_Stardog is the world's leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform. But what is a Knowledge Graph, and why should you…_www.stardog.com
Alan Morrison from PwC on how Knowledge Graphs can help collapse the IT Stack
Did you know Airbnb also has a knowledge graph? You can read about it here. Note the insightful comment on the nuances of building knowledge graphs in the real world from LinkedIn’s manager of taxonomy
Scaling Knowledge Access and Retrieval at Airbnb_Introducing our Knowledge Graph for encoding relationships and surfacing relevant information_medium.com
Want to know how knowledge graphs work in the real world? How to handle semantics at web scale, how this helps with data governance, how to evaluate graph databases, or how graphs and AI can work together? Then this is the event for you — check out the program officially announced:
Knowledge Graph and AI Experts for Connected Data London 2018 Program_Connected Data London, the leading event for those who use the relationships, meaning and context in Data to achieve…_connected-data.london
Cruce Saunders from [A] elaborates on the relevance of the Semantic Web for enterprise publishers
What Is the Semantic Web and Why Should Enterprise Publishers Care?_The Semantic Web is the knowledge graph formed by combining connected, Linked Data with intelligent content to…_medium.com
Google just expanded search, so now you can also search for data. Besides being very useful, this also shows how schema.org and semantic web standards work in real life:
Google can now search for datasets. First research, then the world? | ZDNet_With data science and analytics on the rise and under way to being democratized, the importance of being able to find…_www.zdnet.com
Dan Brickley, schema.org’s mastermind, on RDF and SPARQL
Azure CosmosDB announced new capabilities at Microsoft Ignite 2018. None of those is graph-specific, but things like multi-master at global scale should come in handy regardless
Azure Cosmos DB - database for Intelligent Cloud - Intelligent Edge era_Rimma Nehme Product Manager and Architect, Azure Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed…_azure.microsoft.com
Neo4j also announced a new version, 3.5, at Graph Connect NYC. Main new features in v3.5, available in Q4 2018, are full-text search and new graph algorithm implementations.
Neo4j 3.5 Poised to Power the Next Generation of AI & Machine Learning Systems - Neo4j Graph…_Latest Neo4j Graph Platform Reveals Context for AI Applications using a Connections-First Approach GRAPHCONNECT, NEW…_neo4j.com
A few days before Neo4j, TigerGraph also announced a new version. TigerGraph has added integration with popular databases and data storage systems, announced a github repository to host open source connectors, added support for graph algorithms, and a Neo4j migration kit.
Introducing the Latest Release of TigerGraph: Fastest Performance for Graph Analytics_the world's fastest graph analytics platform for the enterprise, today introduces its latest release, designed to help…_info.tigergraph.com
ArangoDB has a new release in the works too: 3.4. A release candidate is available, and main new features are search, support for GeoJSON and Google S2 index, performance improvements via query profiling and streaming cursors, and making RocksDB the default storage engine
Release Candidate 1 ArangoDB 3.4 - What's new?_For ArangoDB 3.4 we already added 100,000 lines of code, happily deleted 50,000 lines and changed over 13,000 files…_www.arangodb.com
Wrapping up with some hands-on experience on working with graph databases, shared by Expero’s Josh Perryman
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Originally published at linkeddataorchestration.com on October 1, 2018.