Are there queries that SPARQL can perform over a triplestore that cannot be done with SQL over normalized data? Perhaps not.
But data normalization to that end is a moving target, while a bag of subject-predicate-object statements are quite doable. This, I believe, is a uniquely powerful characteristic of linked data / graph query languages and protocols.
To that end, agree with the comment above that GraphQL is mighty exciting.
But data normalization to that end is a moving target, while a bag of subject-predicate-object statements are quite doable. This, I believe, is a uniquely powerful characteristic of linked data / graph query languages and protocols.
To that end, agree with the comment above that GraphQL is mighty exciting.