Fluree – The Immutable Graph Database Goes Open Source

(dbweekly.com)

3 points | by kdoubleday 1277 days ago

1 comments

  • mark_l_watson 1277 days ago
    Interesting idea, and of course I like the release using the AGPL, but I am trying to wrap my head around the use cases.

    Since Freebase was discontinued (not to worry, the data is in WikiData), are crowd funded/contributed Knowledge Graphs really a thing? Company internal Knowledge Graphs tend to be re-built periodically from raw data sources, including materializing implicit relations (speeds up queries). Why the need for blockchain?

    Anyway I wish the developers good luck because I think that graph databases are still under appreciated.

    EDIT: I see that it is written in Clojure, nice!

    • fulafel 1276 days ago
      Blockchain is a pretty open ended term. Seems in this case they use it to mean a git style history graph.

      From https://flur.ee/features/ :

      Secure every update with blockchain cryptography in a core immutable ledger.

          Tamper-proof blockchain (SHA3-256) for extreme data integrity
          Complete data traceability throughout history
          Provable audit trail into provenance and path of data
          Digital signatures cryptographically tied to every change
      • mark_l_watson 1276 days ago
        You are correct! Thanks for the clarification.